Conrad Mainwaring Explained

Conrad Mainwaring
Nationality:Antigua and Barbuda
Sport:Track and field
Event:110 metres hurdles
Birth Date:2 October 1951

Conrad Montgomery Avondale Mainwaring (born 2 October 1951) is an Antigua and Barbuda former hurdler and convicted sex offender.

Early life

He was from Leicester. He attended the City of Leicester Boys' Grammar School (now the City of Leicester College), then studied to be a PE teacher at Trent Polytechnic.[1]

He taught Divinity and PE at Newry junior school in Leicester.

Career

He competed in the men's 110 metres hurdles at the 1976 Summer Olympics.[2]

Sexual assault accusations

Mainwaring has been embroiled in a series of scandals in which many athletes he coached during his days as a track coach at various education institutions across the U.S. claimed that he had committed sexual abuse.[3] [4] By 2022, Mainwaring was facing three counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of 14 and nine counts of indecent assault and battery on a child over the age of 14 in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, with the trial scheduled to take place in September 2023.[5] [6] In February 2024, Mainwarning was sentenced to 10 to 11 years after pleading guilty to 14 counts of sexual assault which involved nine male victims who were between the ages of 13 and 19 years old when the incidents took place during the time he was working at Camp Greylock in Berkshire County, between 1975 and 1979.[7] [8] At the time he pled guilty, Mainwaring was also facing seven civil trial sexual abuse cases in the state of New York. Authorities have stated that they believe Mainwaring had “many other victims."

Notes and References

  1. Nottingham Evening Post Friday 16 July 1976 page 35
  2. Conrad Mainwaring Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418095352/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/conrad-mainwaring-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 24 September 2017.
  3. Web site: Kessler . Mike . Fainaru-Wada . Mark . 1 August 2019 . 44 years. 41 allegations. How the past caught up to a former Olympian. . 2023-01-20 . ESPN.com.
  4. Web site: 2021-02-17 . Ex-Olympian Mainwaring arrested on new charges . 2023-01-20 . ESPN.com . en.
  5. Web site: Burke . Amanda . 11 March 2022 . Child sexual assault charges against former Olympian and track coach survive motion to dismiss . 2023-01-20 . The Berkshire Eagle . en.
  6. Web site: Gorenstein . Ben . 2022-11-04 . Trial date set in 1970s Berkshire County sexual abuse case . 2023-04-20 . WNYT.com NewsChannel 13 . en-US.
  7. News: Ex-Olympian pleads guilty to molesting boys at sports camp in Mass.. Michael. Casey. NBC Boston. 2024-02-09. 2024-02-13.
  8. News: An ex-Olympian pleads guilty to sexually assaulting boys – but the total number of victims 'remains unknown,' DA says. Holly. Yan. CNN. 2024-02-10. 2024-02-13.