Richard Davenport (sprinter)

Richard Davenport (born 12 September 1985) is an English former sprinter who specialised in the 400 metres.^[2] He won a silver medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2005 European Indoor Championships.

His personal bests in the event are 46.75 seconds outdoors (Birmingham 2012) and 47.30 seconds indoors (Birmingham 2005).

Davenport finished runner-up to Nathan Woodward in the 400 metres hurdles event at the 2011 British Athletics Championships.^[3][4]

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Great Britain
2001	European Youth Olympic Festival	Murcia, Spain	2nd	400 m	48.59
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	42.21
2003	European Junior Championships	Tampere, Finland	8th (h)	400 m	47.37
			4th	4 × 400 m relay	3:09.36
2004	World Junior Championships	Grosseto, Italy	7th	400 m hurdles	51.59
			5th	4 × 400 m relay	3:07.02
2005	European Indoor Championships	Madrid, Spain	2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:09.53
	European U23 Championships	Erfurt, Germany	22nd (h)	400 m	47.45
			2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:04.83
2011	Universiade	Shenzhen, China	5th	400 m hurdles	49.98
			8th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	40.38

^[5] Outdoor

• 400 metres – 46.75 (Birmingham 2012)
• 800 metres – 1:50.17 (Street 2005)
• 400 metres hurdles – 49.76 (Birmingham 2011)

Indoor

• 400 metres – 47.30 (Birmingham 2005)
• 800 metres – 1:51.45 (Cardiff 2005)