SOLOMON Steven

16 May 1993
28
Male
SYDNEY, NSW
 
Australia
SYDNEY, NSW
 
Australia

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
ATH Athletics Men's 400m  

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Olympic Stadium - Track
Finished
Olympic Stadium - Track
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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Olympic Games
YearLocation400m4 x 400m
2012London, GBR8th (45.14)1R (3:03.17)

World Athletics Championships
YearLocation400m4 x 400m
2019Doha, QATSF (45.54)Heats (3:05.49)
2017London, GBRHeats (46.27)-
2013Moscow, RUS-7th (3:02.26)
2011Daegu, KOR-Heats (3:01.56)

World Relays
YearLocation4 x 400m
2019Yokohama, JPN7th (3:05.59)

Oceania Championships
YearLocation400m4 x 400m
2019Townsville, QLD, AUS1st (46.12)1st (3:08.67)

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020
RankYearEventCompetitionLocationResult
52019400mWorld ChallengeOsaka, JPN47.16


Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final
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Steve (theguardian.com, 28 Aug 2020)
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Reading, writing, surfing, watching TV and movies. (stevensolomon.com.au, 01 Sep 2019)
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Athlete
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Human Biology - Stanford University, United States of America
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English
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Randwick-Botany Harriers [Sydney, NSW, AUS]
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Penny Gillies, AUS
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He captained the Australian junior football side at the 2009 Maccabiah Games. (jwire.com.au, 10 Dec 2010)
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2012 for Australia (theaustralian.com.au, 12 Apr 2014)
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A hamstring injury forced him to pull out in the semifinals of the 400m at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. (dailytelegraph.com.au, 30 Jul 2014)

In 2013 he suffered a back injury. (thejc.com, 24 Apr 2014)

In 2012 he suffered a lower back injured that affected his freshman season at Stanford University. (athletics.com.au, 01 Sep 2018)
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He took up athletics in 2006 at Cranbrook School in Sydney, NSW, Australia. (rbharriers.com, 01 Jul 2010)
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He knew his school had a good reputation for sports, so he decided to try and make the athletics team. (olympics.com.au, 30 Aug 2011)
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To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (theguardian.com, 28 Aug 2020)
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Competing at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. (theguardian.com, 28 Aug 2020)
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Spanish football player Andres Iniesta. (thesportsvault.com.au, 23 Mar 2013)
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Coach Fira Dvoskina. (runnerstribe.com, 07 Apr 2013)
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"The most enjoyable part of my athletics is pushing my body to its limits. There is nothing that I have done in my life so far that comes close to the grit required to run at the Olympic level over the 400m. The margin of error is so small that it is almost non-existent, and it is this pursuit of excellence at the margin that I love most." (fuqua.duke.edu, 01 Sep 2018)
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In 2013 he was named New South Wales [NSW] Athletics Male Athlete of the Year. (jwire.com.au, 05 Jul 2013)

General Interest

General
FINE MARGINS
He competed at the 2012 Olympic Games in London at age 19, but then missed out on qualification for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro by just 0.04 seconds. "The margins in our sport are close to impossible to comprehend. Victory separates defeat by diving one single second, a hundred times. I am acutely aware of this margin. I missed the Rio Olympic Games by less time than it takes for the sound to travel from your hands to your ears when you clap. Think about that. I have seen how much going to the Olympics in 2012 changed my life. It affirmed in me the confidence to chase big goals with no guarantees, and realise the fruits of that ambition." (medium.com, 06 Apr 2020; theguardian.com, 29 Aug 2020)

TIME ABROAD
He studied human biology at Stanford University in California, United States of America. He made the decision to move there after realising how much benefit competing in US college sport would have on his athletics career. "You travel around the US as a team each week. You learn from those above you how best to deal with adverse times and how to make the most of imperfect situations like delayed flights, dirty hotel rooms and lost baggage. I have had to deal with all these things before, but with practice I derive confidence." (LinkedIn profile, 18 Feb 2021; runnerstribe.com, 07 Apr 2013)

FURTHER EDUCATION
In 2018 he graduated with a master's degree in management from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in Durham, NC, United States of America. (LinkedIn profile, 18 Feb 2021)

Legend
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
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