Brian Marshall (athlete)

Brian Marshall (born April 1, 1965) is a Canadian retired track and field athlete, who competed in the men's high jump at the 1988 Summer Olympics.[1]

Brian Marshall
Personal information
Born (1965-04-01) April 1, 1965
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada[1]
Sport
Country Canada
Event(s)high jump

Originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Marshall was an active athlete in high school, setting a national Canada-wide high jump record at the high school level in 1981.[2] He subsequently attended Stanford University, where he won a Pac-10 championship in the high jump in 1988;[3] his 2.28 metres (7 ft 6 in) jump remained the all-time record for a Stanford University athlete as of 2016.[4]

At the 1988 Summer Olympics, he jumped 2.22 metres (7 ft 3 in), placing 17th[5] — a tie with fellow Canadian jumper Milton Ottey and South Korean jumper Cho Hyun-Wook — and failing to qualify for the finals.

Marshall came out as gay in 1994 by attending a political gala at Rideau Hall as the guest of Svend Robinson, Canada's first openly gay Member of Parliament.[6] He was also a panelist at the 2003 National Gay and Lesbian Athletics Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on a panel of LGBT Olympians that also included swimmer Mark Tewksbury and rower Harriet Metcalf.[7]

Achievements
YearCompetitionVenuePositionNotes
Representing  Canada
1988 Summer Olympics Men's high jump Seoul, South Korea 17th 2.22 metres (7 ft 3 in)

References
  1. Brian Marshall at sportsreference.com
  2. "New track passes first test". Ottawa Citizen, July 2, 1981.
  3. "Cardinal Men Finish Third; Women Fourth" Archived February 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Stanford Athletics, June 21, 1999.
  4. "Stanford Men's Track and Field Outdoor All-Time Top 10 Thru 2016" Archived 2014-02-21 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. "Excellence celebrated at annual awards banquet - Ottawa Lions Track and Field Club". 2016-11-21. Archived from the original on 2023-04-05. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
  6. "Gay and proud: Canada's only publicly gay MP tells his story". Maclean's, May 16, 1994.
  7. "GLAF convention brings gay athletes to Boston" Archived 2018-11-05 at the Wayback Machine. Bay Windows, March 27, 2003.


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