Marlon Gets A Bronze

Last updated : 22 August 2009 By Covsupport News Service/ZC

Coventry's Marlon Devonish was in the The Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland men's 4x100m relay team that took bronze on the penultimate afternoon session at the IAAF World Championships in Berlin

In a season's best of 38.02,
Simeon Williamson who strongly ran the bend before delivering the baton Tyrone Edgar.

The 100m finalist
ran the straight at a blistering pace before handing over to Coventry's Olympic relay gold medalist Marlon Devonish.

The City supporter
ran the third leg bend, to allow anchor Harry Aikines Aryeetey to get the team to the line in third place.

Devonish said to the media afterwards: "I'm very proud of the guys, very proud. I've won a lot of medals and it's nice to share this experience. We've had a lot of focus in the semi final and we had the same discipline right through to the final, but it's all about the medals. This is a massive catalyst for us to go on and get better.

"We've trained so hard, almost sacrificed part of our individual events to do the relay. It was very important that we had a medal today. The relay can always go pear-shaped, there are so many variables so it is a blessing we have come back with another medal."