Danny Talbot (born 1 May 1991)[2] is a retired British sprinter who specialised in the 100 metres and the 200 metres. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Talbot was born in Trowbridge, England, to a British father and a mother who is half Trinidadian. Talbot was educated at St Augustine's Catholic College in Trowbridge, Wiltshire.[2]
Talbot won the 200 m bronze medal at the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki. For Team GB in the 4 × 100 m at the London 2012 Olympics, he ran the third leg in the heats but failed to exchange the baton with anchor Adam Gemili. He ran again for Britain in the 4 × 100 at the 2014 World Relay Championships, forming part of a quartet which ran 37.93 in the heats and went on to win bronze.
Talbot became the British 200 metres champion after winning the 2014 British Athletics Championships.[3][4] Later that year he represented England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, and won a silver medal in the relay event.[5]
At the IAAF World Championships held in London in 2017, Talbot qualified for the 200 metres semifinal with a personal best of 20.16 in his heat on 7 August. Five days later he ran the third leg for the 4 × 100 metres relay team which won the gold medal in a time of 37.47, a British and European record.[6]
Talbot retired from athletics competitions in December 2021.[7]
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing  Great Britain
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| 2010 | World Junior Championships | Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada | 14th (sf) | 200 m | 21.19 w (+2.1 m/s) |
| — | 4 × 100 m relay | DNF | |||
| 2011 | European U23 Championships | Ostrava, Czech Republic | 4th | 200 m | 20.71 |
| 2nd | 4 × 100 m relay | 39.10 | |||
| 2012 | European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 3rd | 200 m | 20.95 |
| 2013 | European U23 Championships | Tampere, Finland | 2nd | 200 m | 20.46 (-0.3 m/s) |
| 1st | 4 × 100 m relay | 38.77 | |||
| 2015 | World Championships | Beijing, China | 13th (h) | 200 m | 20.27 |
| — | 4 × 100 m relay | DNF | |||
| 2016 | European Championships | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3rd | 200 m | 20.56 |
| Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 11th (sf) | 200 m | 20.25 | |
| 2017 | IAAF World Relays | Nassau, Bahamas | 3rd (h) | 4 × 100 m relay | 38.321 |
| World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 9th (sf) | 200 m | 20.38 | |
| 1st | 4 × 100 m relay | 37.47 | |||
1Did not finish in the final
European Athletics U23 Championships champions in men's 4 × 100 metres relay | |
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† denotes athletes who took part in heats only |
