Career

He was the 200 m gold medallist at the 1982 and a 60 metres gold medallist at the 1985 European Athletics Indoor Championships. He lived in the London Borough of Hackney. He started out as a schoolboy winning the English schoolboys" 200 metres on three occasions.

This was followed by an outdoor American Automobile Association"s junior 200 victory.

In 1980 he went to the Moscow Olympics where he ran in the 200 metres, where he got to the quarter final. He also reached the European 100 metre final in Stuttgart in 1986 where he finished 6th.

He ran in the 100 m at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics, failing to make the final. He subsequently made a successful career in coaching after retirement and is a high performance coach for United Kingdom Athletics based at the National Athletics Centre in Lee Valley.

100 metres – 10.22 seconds 200 metres – 20.43 seconds.

Achievements

• He won an Olympic silver medal in the 4×100 metres relay at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. McFarlane won two further sprint medals at the 1986 Commonwealth Games. This success continued as he went on to win the American Automobile Association"s junior Indoor 60/200 metre titles. He was also a South of England Champion and in 1979/1980 he won the European junior and American Automobile Association"s Indoor 200 metre titles. In 1982 after winning the United Kingdom championships 200, he went to his 2nd Commonwealth Games where he won a Joint Commonwealth Gold alongside 1980 Olympic 100 metre champion Allan Wells in an historic and memorable 200 metres where both men could not be separated, and both claimed Gold medals. In 1984 he won the United Kingdom championships 100 metres, then went to the Los Angeles Olympics where he reached the final of the 100 metres, and finished an excellent 5th. In 1985 he became European Indoor Champion at 60 metres. In 1986 he competed at his 3rd Commonwealth games where he won Bronze in the 100 metres, and silver in the sprint relay. He competed for Great Britain in the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South of Korea in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Elliot Bunney, John Regis and Linford Christie.

Membership

He was also a member of the sprint relay team that reached the final and finished 4th in a new British record.