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}} Peter John Gabbett (born 19 November 1941) is a former holder of the British record for the decathlon. He is widely regarded as the first British decathlete to achieve world class performances in this event. He won the AAA Championships on three occasions, finished second in the 1970 Commonwealth Games, was sixth in the European Championships, and twice competed in the Olympic Games. He improved the British Decathlon record four times, two of these were also Commonwealth Records, bringing it close to the 8,000 points mark. At an unofficial meeting at Alan Hancock College, Santa Maria, California in May 1972 he became the first British decathlete to score over 8,000 points in a decathlon though the circumstances of this performance invalidated it for record purposes.〔''Athletics Weekly'', (AW26.24.35)〕 He was a Naval Air Mechanic in the Royal Navy, and married to Angela D Gabbett. During his athletic career he made his home in Portsmouth, England. On retiring from the Fleet Air Arm he established a career in shipping and forwarding and now has an Independent Financial Advisory consultancy and now resides in Buckinghamshire. ==Early years== Gabbett was born in Watlington, Oxfordshire. He was educated at the Royal Alexandra and Albert School,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Royal Alexandra and Albert School )〕 in Surrey, a residential school with a reputation for sporting endeavour, graduating in 1957. In October 2005 Gabbett was guest of honour and principal speaker at a ceremony at the school to celebrate its conversion to a specialist Sports College. Gabbett joined the Royal Navy as a Naval Air Mechanic and although sport would have formed a significant part of his training there is no record of any athletic performance until May 1960 when he finished third in a high jump competition in Portsmouth, he has since said that Athletics was his main focus and passion. By 1963 he had added sprinting to his repertoire and finished second in the Royal Navy Championship at both 100m and 200m events. Less than a month later he went one better in winning both events at the Inter Services Championships, running 10.9s for the 100m into a headwind of −0.75 m/s. The following year (1964) he confined himself to a limited program due to competing in the Field Gun competition at the Royal Tournament, but in 1966 he started to explore his potential as a multi-event athlete by taking medals in three events at the Royal Navy Championships in Plymouth. He was at this time just "one of many" 9.9s sprinters (for 100 yards) when he decided to switch to the decathlon, which Mel Watman described as a "shrewd move". His first recorded decathlon was at the AAA Championships at Welwyn Garden City in July 1966, where he finished 5th (11.0 6.71 10.61 1.78 49.2 16.3 30.96 2.90 46.33 4:33.7) scoring 6,435 points placing him 7th in the British rankings for the year.〔''Athletics Weekly'', (AW22.33.4)〕〔''Athletics Weekly'', (AW20.29.17)〕 This brought him to the attention of Tom McNab, who was at that time one of Britain's most respected and senior athletics coaches. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Gabbett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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