Michael Rimmer
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PERSONAL DETAILSDOB: 3 February 1986
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PROFILEMichael is Britain's top 800m runner, the first male 800m runner in British history to win national titles at under 15, 17, 20 and as a senior athlete. He is well known for wearing a lucky T-shirt under his racing vest, and was a former sports scholar at Liverpool John Moores University.
He finished 8th in the 800m final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg and finished 2nd in his first European Cup in Munich in 2007. His personal best is 1:44.49 set in Lausanne in 2010, which places him 8th on the UK all time list and the fastest by any British athlete in 17 years.
After winning the Senior UK title in 2008, he was selected to represent Team GB at the Beijing Olympics. Rimmer's build-up to the Games was disrupted by food poisoning, which he picked up at the holding camp in Macau. The Southport runner comfortably came through his first-ever Olympic race in 1:47.61, despite having lost almost 7 pounds (3.2 kg) because of his illness.
In August 2009, Michael competed in the World Championships, held in Berlin. After impressing in the heats, he narrowly missed out on making the final. In July 2010, he became the first male 800m runner in history to win five consecutive national senior titles in Birmingham. He followed this up with his first major championship medal in the European Championships in Barcelona, a silver medal behind Marcin Lewandowski.
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