Background
Peacock was born in Cambridge.
Peacock was born in Cambridge.
At the age of 5, Peacock contracted meningitis resulting in the disease killing the tissues of his right leg, which was then was amputated just below the knee. Wanting to play football, he was directed to a Paralympic sports talent day when he asked about disability sport at the hospital that fitted his prosthetic legal His mother would carry him to school when his very short below-knee stump was too sore to wear his prosthetic legal
Peacock refers to his stump as his "sausage legal"
Peacock ran his first international race at the Paralympic World Cup in Manchester in May 2012.
In June 2012 Peacock set a new 100 metres world record in amputee sprinting at the United States Paralympic track and field trials, recording a time of 10.85 seconds to beat the previous record held by Marlon Shirley by 0.06 seconds. This record was beaten in July 2013 at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships at the Stade du Rhône in Lyon when American athlete Richard Browne recorded a time of 10.83 in the T44 100m semi-finals.
Peacock pulled out of the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships due to a sore on his stump that developed over the summer.
Peacock was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 New Year for services to athletics.
