Brent Lakatos
Lakatos at the 2013 World Championships
Personal information
Birth nameBrent Lakatos
Born (1980-06-01) 1 June 1980
Dorval, Quebec, Canada
Sport
Disability classT53
Medal record
Men's para-athletics
Representing  Canada
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Paralympic Games 1 8 2
World Championships 11 5 2
Parapan American Games 3 0 0
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m T53
Silver medal – second place 2012 London 200 m T53
Silver medal – second place 2012 London 400 m T53
Silver medal – second place 2012 London 800 m T53
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 800 m T53
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 100 m T53
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 400 m T53
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 800 m T53
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 5000 m T53-T54
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 800 m T53
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4 x 400 m T53–54
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Lyon 100 m T53
Gold medal – first place 2013 Lyon 200 m T53
Gold medal – first place 2013 Lyon 400 m T53
Gold medal – first place 2013 Lyon 4x400 m T53/54
Gold medal – first place 2015 Doha 100 m T53
Gold medal – first place 2015 Doha 200 m T53
Gold medal – first place 2015 Doha 800 m T53
Gold medal – first place 2017 London100 m T53
Gold medal – first place 2017 London 200 m T53
Gold medal – first place 2017 London 400 m T53
Gold medal – first place 2017 London 800 m T53
Gold medal – first place 2023 Paris 800 m T53
Silver medal – second place 2011 Christchurch 200 m T53
Silver medal – second place 2013 Lyon 800 m T53
Silver medal – second place 2015 Doha 400 m T53
Silver medal – second place 2023 Paris 400 m T53
Silver medal – second place 2023 Paris 1500 m T54
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Assen 100 m T53
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Christchurch 100 m T53
Parapan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2015 Toronto 100 m T53
Gold medal – first place 2015 Toronto 800 m T53
Gold medal – first place 2015 Toronto 400 m T53

Brent Lakatos (born 1 June 1980) is a Canadian wheelchair racer in the T53 classification. Lakatos has represented Canada at three Summer Paralympics, and at the 2012 Games he won three silver medals in the sprint and mid-distance events. In 2013 Lakatos reached the pinnacle of his sport when he collected four gold medals at the IPC Athletics World Championships and became world champion at his classification in the 100m, 200m and 400m events.

Personal history

Lakatos came from a sporting family and was swimming by the age of four. When he was six years-old a freak ice-skating accident resulted in the formation of a blood clot on his spine that left his legs paralyzed.[1]

Lakatos is married to Great Britain Paralympic sprinter and long jumper, Stefanie Reid and as of 2012 they live together in Britain.[2][3]

Athletics career

Although Lakatos had taken part in racing events during the summer months since 1996, he did not initially take to athletics and was far more interested in wheelchair basketball, playing for the University of Texas at Arlington. Eight months before the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Lakatos decided to switch sports permanently to wheelchair racing. At that time Lakatos was competing as a T54 athlete having not yet received an International IPC Classification. In 2004 he finally qualified and was selected for the 2004 Summer Paralympics, this was quite an accomplishment for him in the T54 class, a class he was incorrectly placed in. He raced in the 100m, 200m, 4 × 100 m relay and 4 × 400 m relay, though he failed to qualify for the finals in the solo events and in the relays Canada came fourth in the finals of the 4 × 100 m and were disqualified in the 4 × 400 m.[4]

Lakatos' career changed when receiving his International IPC Classification at the 2004 Paralympics, he was reclassified as a T53 racer. He now found that instead of struggling to just qualify he was now one of the fastest athletes in his new class and in 2007 he was breaking Canadian wheelchair sprint records.[5]

Lakatos again qualified for the Canadian team in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. He was entered for the 100m, 200m and 400 m T53 events, and whereas in 2004 he failed to qualify for the finals, he now qualified for all three finals. Despite his best efforts, Lakatos could only finish between 5th and 6th in all three final races.[4] Lakatos bettered these results when he raced in the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships, finishing third in the 100m and second in the 200m finals.

By 2012 Lakatos was a major challenger for gold medals in his T53 events. In the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London he took three silver medals; in the 200m, 400m and 800m. In the 200m and 400m finals he was beaten by China's Li Huzhao, while in the 800m he was just 11 hundredths of a second behind Richard Colman of Australia.[4] The next year Lakatos stamped his mark on the international stage when he won five medals, four of them gold at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships, becoming world champion in the 100, 200 and 400m.[6] Then the day after the World Championships he competed in the Sainsbury Anniversary Games in London, setting the World Record in the 100m with a time 14.34s.

In 2020, Lakatos won the 400 metres wheelchair race at the 2020 British Athletics Championships.[7] Later in the year, he won the 2020 London Marathon in a time of 1:36:04.[8]

In 2021, Lakatos took place in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games where he ranked three times second, earning silver medals in the 100m T53, the 400m T53 and the 5000m T53.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Brent Lakatos: Biography". paralympians.com. Archived from the original on 26 November 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  2. ↑ Kingston, Gary (3 September 2012). "Busy Paralympians Brent Lakatos, Stefanie Reid making marriage work". nationalpost.com. Archived from the original on 30 July 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  3. ↑ "About Stef Reid". stefreid.com. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 "Brent Lakatos: Athlete profile". paralympic.org. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  5. ↑ "Wheelchair racing circuit – Quebec's Brent Lakatos Breaks Three Canadian Records at World Series Event". sirc.ca. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  6. ↑ "Brent Lakatos: IPC Biography". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 17 December 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  7. ↑ "400 Metres Wheelchair Race – Men – Final". UK Athletics. 5 September 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  8. ↑ Whittington, Jessica (4 October 2020). "Lakatos and Den Boer battle to wheelchair wins in London". Athletics Weekly. Archived from the original on 23 October 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  9. ↑ "Lakatos | Canadian Paralympic Committee". paralympic.ca. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
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