Dai Greene

Sport/Event >
Athletics, 400m hurdles

Date and Place of Birth >
11 April 1986, Llanelli, Wales

Coached by >
Malcolm Arnold

Biography >

Dai won the 400m hurdles gold at the 2011 World Championships to add the world crown to the European and Commonwealth titles he won the previous year.

His gold in Daegu, South Korea, was Britain’s first gold of the World Championships and proved to be one of only two golds brought home by the GB team.

He became only the seventh British man to win gold in an individual event at an athletics World Championships and his medal was Britain’s 16th gold in World Championships history.

Dai transferred to train at the University of Bath in 2009 to link up with Malcolm Arnold, UK Athletics’ highly experienced National Event Coach – Hurdles.

European Championship gold followed in Barcelona in August 2010 and he collected Commonwealth gold for Wales in Delhi in October 2010.

Dai was a keen footballer and played for Swansea City FC youth, scoring from the penalty spot against Real Madrid’s youth team.  But he switched to athletics where he had shown much promise, winning the Welsh U13 75m hurdles title.

He has a degree in Sport and Leisure Management from UWIC and is an ambassador for the charity Young Epilepsy.

Headline Result >

Gold – 400m hurdles- World Championships, Daegu, South Korea – September 2011