Athletics | Athlete Profile: Dane BIRD-SMITH - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games

Birth Date:  15 Jul 1992
Place of Birth:  KIPPA-RING
Country of birth:  AUS
Age:  25
Gender:   Men

Height (cm): 186
Weight (Kg): 70

Events and Medals

Sport	Event	Rank
Athletics	Men's 20km Race Walk	1

Dane BIRD-SMITH - Records

Record	Event	Mark	Date	Location
GR	Men's 20km Race Walk Final	1:19:34	8 April, 2018	Gold Coast (AUS)

Dane BIRD-SMITH - Schedule

Schedule
Time	My Time	Venue		Event		Status
Sun, 8 Apr 7:00	-	Currumbin Beachfront		Men's 20km Race Walk Final		Finished

Legend

GR: Commonwealth Games Record

Biographical Information

Highlights:

Olympic Games
Year	Location	Event	Rank	Result
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Men's 20km Race Walk	3	1:19:37

World Championships
Year	Location	Event	Rank	Result
2017	London, GBR	Men's 20km Race Walk	6	1:19:28
2015	Beijing, CHN	Men's 20km Race Walk	8	1:21:37
2013	Moscow, RUS	Men's 20km Race Walk	11	1:23:06

Nickname: Danish (olympics.com.au, Mar 2016)
Occupation: Student
Education: Health studies and physical education at University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. (Olympics.com.au, May 2016)
Languages spoken: English
Coach:

PERSONAL: David SMITH (AUS) (father) (olympics.com.au, Aug 2016)

Sporting relatives:

Father and coach David SMITH represented Australia in race walking at Moscow 1980 Olympic Games (20km and 50km) and Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games (20km). (athletics.org.au, Aug 2016)

Reason: Olympian race walker father David SMITH encouraged him into athletics. Initially preferred sprinting until he took up race walking as a teenager. "All my life I have been surrounded by the track. The week I was born, dad took me to training. I do recall at some stage being pushed around in a pram on a track. I never really chose race walking, it just happened along the way at high school." (olympics.com.au, Jul 2016; couriermail.com.au, 10 Mar 2016)

Additional information:

FATHER KNOWS BEST
On being coached by his father, dual Olympian David SMITH: "As a coach, he knows the ins and outs of race walking and technique. It gets a bit topsy-turvy when I talk to dad, and there can be a few little butting of heads. That is always going to happen but it works really well because we have that trust in each other." (couriermail.com.au, 10 Mar 2016)

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