Career
He was the silver medallist at the 1998 European Athletics Championships. His personal best for the 200 m was 20.43 seconds, set in 1996. Born in Newport, Wales, he was a late starter and made his debut at a major outdoor international competition in his thirties.
He ran in the heats only at the 1996 European Athletics Indoor Championships and 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
He came to prominence during a period of strong sprint competition in Wales, with Christian Malcolm, Jamie Baulch and Tim Benjamin among his contemporaries. His winning time of 20.54 seconds in 2001 was a record for the meet.
At that competition he was part of the 4 × 100 metres relay team and placed fourth in a team of Malcolm, James Henthorn, and Kevin Williams. The 1998 season proved to be the high point of his career.
First he placed fifth at the 1998 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
Turner ran at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics, but failed to make the final. Following these performances, and his advancing years, the national sports body Elite Cmyru dropped him from their funding programme, which brought about his retirement from the sport. He received a three-month doping ban after a positive test for ephedrine in 2000.
This also brought about an Olympic ban by the British Olympic Association, but an appeal to the body overturned the ban on the basis that only small traces were found in his system and that the consumption of the drug was unintentional.
100 metres – 10.37 (2001) 200 metres – 20.43 (1996) 60 metres (indoor) – 6.69 (2002) 200 metres (indoor) – 20.59 (2002).