Shane Naylor
{{Short description|Australian sprinter}}
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| sport = Athletics
| event = Sprinting
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{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}
{{Medal|Silver|1994 Victoria|4×100 m}}
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Shane Anthony Naylor (born 3 November 1967) is an Australian former athlete who competed in sprinting events during the 1980s and 1990s.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122350254 |title=Naylor stakes claim for national selection with season's fastest time |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=19 March 1991|page=18 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118156777 |title=Naylor battling to be fit for sprinters' showdown |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=9 March 1994 |page=32 |via=National Library of Australia}} Post athletics, he has been involved in powerlifting and is a masters world record holder.{{cite news |title=Naylor confident of raising the bar |url=https://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/sport/local-sport/geelong-powerlifter-shane-naylor-confident-of-raising-the-bar/news-story/c0a242a33d4c65cc9ebfab87272d8af3 |work=Geelong Advertiser |date=14 August 2014}}
Biography
Naylor grew up in the Victorian town of Tatura near Shepparton and has a younger sister Lee who was also a notable sprinter.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126933622 |title=Illness hits 5 in squad |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=7 July 1992 |page=20 |via=National Library of Australia}} He was an under-18 national champion in the 100 metres.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136297626 |title=Naylor Grasps a 100m Dream |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=29 March 1987 |page=5 (Sunday Sport) |via=National Library of Australia}}
A four-time national 100 metres champion, Naylor won his first title in 1987 as a 19-year old. In 1992 he finished sixth in the final of the IAAF World Cup and only narrowly missed the qualifying standard that year for the Olympics in Barcelona.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118166873 |title=Injury hurts fastest sprinter's qualifying chance |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=28 January 1992 |page=18 |via=National Library of Australia}} He represented Australia at two Commonwealth Games, including in 1994 when he claimed a silver medal as part of the 4x100 metres relay team.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127515898 |title=Freeman clinches her first national 400m title |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=5 March 1995 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}} In 1995 he set his personal best of 10.21 seconds at the national championships in Canberra, which qualified him for the World Championships in Gothenburg later that year.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127518783 |title=An ill wind proves costly for Robinson |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=19 March 1995 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia}}
In February 1997, Naylor joined former AFL player Leon Higgins to play for a Melbourne team in the 1997 Rugby League World Sevens tournament.{{cite news |last1=Mascord |first1=Steve |title=Those Magnificent Sevens |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |publisher=Fairfax Media Publications Pty Limited |date=8 February 1997 |location=Sydney, New South Wales |page=54}} The Melbourne team failed to win a match.{{cite book |last1=Middleton |first1=David |title=Rugby League 1998 |date=8 February 1998 |publisher=Harper Sports |location=Sydney |isbn=0732264243 |pages=136–137}}
Naylor's nephew Max Holmes plays in the AFL for Geelong.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
References
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External links
- {{World Athletics|australia/shane-naylor-14179072}}
- {{CGF profile|35977}}
- {{CGA profile|shane-naylor}}
{{Footer Australia NC 100m Men}}
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Category:Australian male sprinters
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Category:Sportsmen from Victoria (state)
Category:Australian powerlifters
Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for Australia
Category:Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games