Mitchell Kealey Explained

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Mitchell Kealey
Birth Date:28 January 1984
Birth Place:Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Weight:620NaN0
Sport:Athletics
Event:Middle distance running
Collegeteam:University of Queensland
Coach:Roy Rankin
Pb:800 m: 1:48.39 (2009)
1500 m: 3:36.00 (2010)

Mitchell Kealey (born 28 January 1984) is an Australian middle-distance runner.[1] He set his personal best time of 3:36.00, by placing third at the 2010 Sydney Athletics Grand Prix in Sydney, New South Wales.[2] [3] Kealey is also a member of the track and field team, and a graduate of business management at the University of Queensland in Brisbane.[4]

Kealey qualified for the men's 1500 metres at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after recorded an A-standard time of 3:36.21 in the same distance at the IAAF Golden League Meeting in Oslo, Norway.[5] He ran in the second heat against twelve other athletes, including Kenya's Asbel Kipruto Kiprop and United States' Bernard Lagat, who both considered top medal contenders in this event. He finished the race in eleventh place by five seconds ahead of Swaziland's Isaiah Msibi, with a time of 3:46.31. Kealey, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as he placed forty-fifth overall, and was ranked farther below five mandatory slots for the next round.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Mitchell Kealey. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418080935/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ke/mitch-kealey-1.html. dead. 18 April 2020. 30 January 2013.
  2. Web site: February results . Queensland Academy of Sport . 30 January 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130409191718/http://www.qasport.qld.gov.au/results/2010/february.html . 9 April 2013 .
  3. News: Gullan. Scott. Hard road for winged Mitch Kealey. The Sun-Herald. 20 May 2007. 30 January 2013.
  4. News: Record UQ cohort set for Beijing. University of Queensland. 1 August 2008. 30 January 2013.
  5. News: Kealey makes Beijing squad. The Australian. 12 June 2008. 30 January 2013.
  6. Web site: Men's 1500m Round 1 – Heat 2 . . 30 January 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120821021042/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DATM015900/index.html . 21 August 2012 .