- Dave Culbert
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David ("Dave") Thomas Culbert (born 17 March 1967 in Sydney) is a former international track and field athlete. In an international long jump career that spanned ten years, he won two Commonwealth Games silver medals in 1990 and 1994[1] and also made finals at Olympic level.[2]
Since his retirement, he has established himself as Australia's premier track and field commentator working with Channel 7 and SBS as well as various radio stations. In 2004 and 2005 he hosted a Sunday morning discussion show, The Insiders on Melbourne station SEN 1116.
In his role as a commentator, he has called Athletics at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games, 1998 and 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games and the past five World Athletics Championships.
He has also held the role of reporter/producer on Channel Seven programs Talking Footy, The Olympic Show and Sportsworld.
Culbert runs a successful sports media, promotion and marketing firm called Jump Media and has clients including Athletics Australia and the Australian Commonwealth Games Association.
He has worked on projects for Hockey Australia, the International Triathlon Union and Gymnastics Australia.
He holds a Bachelor of Business (Sports Management) degree.
He is a distant cousin of former East-German athletics technical advisor, Helmut Vashing.[3]
References
- Profile
- IAAF profile for Dave Culbert
External links
Australian National Champions in Men's Long Jump 1930: Carl Mahon • 1932: Hubert Day • 1934: Adrian Button • 1936: John Lobban • 1937: Basil Dickinson • 1947 – 1950: Theo Bruce • 1951: Hugh Jack • 1952: Peter Cox • 1953: Brian Oliver • 1954: Hector Hogan • 1955: Ian Bruce • 1956: Brian Oliver • 1957: Hugh Jack • 1958: Jim McCann • 1959: Maurie Rich • 1960: Bevyn Baker • 1961: Alan Crawley • 1962: John Baguley • 1963: Ian Tomlinson • 1964: Murray Tolbert • 1965: Phil May • 1966: Leonid Barkovskiy (URS) • 1967: Alan Crawley • 1968: Gayle Hopkins (USA) • 1969 – 1971: Phil May • 1972: Murray Tolbert • 1973 – 1976: Chris Commons • 1977: Fred Holpen • 1978: Steven Knott • 1979: Gary Honey • 1980: Ian Campbell • 1981 – 1989: Gary Honey • 1990: Dave Culbert • 1991: Jon Moyle (NZL) • 1992: Dave Culbert • 1993: Mike Powell (USA) • 1994: Jai Taurima • 1995: Craig Furber • 1996: Jai Taurima • 1997 – 1999: Shane Hair • 2000 – 2001: Peter Burge • 2002: Tim Parravicini • 2003: Peter Burge • 2004: Shane Hair • 2005: Christopher Noffke • 2006: Fabrice Lapierre • 2007: Tim Parravicini • 2008: Robert Crowther • 2009: Fabrice Lapierre; • 2010: Fabrice Lapierre; • 2011: Mitchell Watt
Categories:- 1967 births
- Living people
- Australian long jumpers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Australia
- Sportspeople from Sydney
- Australian athletics biography stubs
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