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| caption          = David Gillick (middle) during the [[2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships]]
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| birth_place      = [[Ballinteer]], [[Dublin]], Ireland
| education        = [[St. Benildus College]]
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{{MedalCompetition|[[IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics|World Indoor Championship]]}}
{{MedalBronze |[[2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships|2004 Budapest]]| [[2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay|4 × 400 metre relay]]}}
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{{MedalGold |[[2005 European Indoor Athletics Championships|2005 Madrid]]| [[2005 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres|400 m]]}}
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'''David Gillick''' (born 9 July 1983, in [[Dublin]]) is an Irish international track and field athlete. He began his education in Our Lady's Boys School and attended St Benildus College secondary school in [[Kilmacud]]. He studied at [[Dublin Institute of Technology]] before moving to [[Loughborough University]] in the [[United Kingdom]] to train as a full-time athlete with coach Nick Dakin. Gillick specialises in the 400 metres and he won the European Indoor Championship in 2005 and 2007, as well as the Irish National Outdoor Championship in 2006 and 2007. He set the Irish Indoor record of 45.52 seconds in the 2007 final. The time also beat the Irish outdoor record of 45.58 and was within the Olympic 'A' qualifying standard for the 2008 Games. On 4 July 2009 he ran 44.77 seconds in a race in Madrid to set a new national record. He is also the 2009 Irish national 200 m champion.

==Career==
Gillick first ran for Ireland at the [[European Athletics U23 Championships]] in 2003, however it was not a successful international debut for Gillick. At the [[2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships]] Gillick won a bronze medal as part of the Irish 4 × 400 metres [[Relay race|relay]] team (along with [[Robert Daly (sprinter)|Robert Daly]], [[David McCarthy (born 1983)|David McCarthy]] and [[Gary Ryan (athlete)|Gary Ryan]]). Despite improving his personal best, Gillick did not qualify for the [[2004 Summer Olympics]].

When he was young he lived in [[Ballinteer]] and played football for Ballinteer St John's GAA Club. He was educated at Our Lady's National School in Ballinteer and then St Benildus College, Kilmacud.

In the [[2005 European Indoor Athletics Championships|2005 European Indoor Championships]] Gillick produced two outstanding runs to first win his heat and then win the gold medal in a personal best time of 46.30, beating the favourite, Spain's [[David Canal]], into second place. It was Ireland's first gold medal in a sprinting event in 75 years. Injury forced Gillick to miss the [[2005 World Championships in Athletics|2005 World outdoor Championships]].

In 2006, Gillick again suffered an injury hit season but did win the Irish National 400 m Championship in a time of 45.67. He also won the Irish National Indoor 200 m Championship (21.45). He qualified with ease through the first round at the [[2006 European Championships in Athletics|2006 European Championships]] before running poorly in his semi-final and being eliminated.

In October 2006, Gillick became a full-time athlete and relocated to [[Loughborough]] in the English midlands to link up with English 400 m coach Nick Dakin and a group that included a number of top British 400 m athletes. Loughborough University has a great tradition in athletics and is viewed by many as one of Europe's top sporting universities.

Early in 2007, Gillick ran a time of 45.91 at an indoor meeting in [[Düsseldorf]], a performance which made him the world leader over 400 m indoors and bettered the Irish record, previously held by [[Belfast]]'s [[Paul McKee (sprinter)|Paul McKee]]. In March 2007, he successfully defended his [[2007 European Indoor Athletics Championships|European Indoor title]], running a new Irish record of 45.52.

On 4 July 2009 Gillick won at the Meeting de Madrid, which is part of the IAAF World Athletics Tour. His time of 44.77 sliced a significant amount off his previous Irish record of 45.12 to set a new Irish outdoor record. He followed this up with 2nd place (44.82) at the Golden League meet in Rome.
At the [[2009 World Championships in Athletics|World Athletics Championships]] in Berlin in August 2009, Gillick qualified for the semi-finals of the [[2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres|men's 400 m]] after he finished second in his heat in a time of 45.54.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/sport/athletics/2009/0818/hessionp.html|title=Gillick progresses to semi-final|date=2009-08-18|work=RTÉ Sport|accessdate=2009-08-18|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090821064516/http://www.rte.ie/sport/athletics/2009/0818/hessionp.html|archivedate=2009-08-21}}</ref> In the semi-final Gillick placed fourth in a time of 44.88, which was good enough to make the World Championship final as the second fastest loser. In the final he finished 6th in a time of 45.53.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/sport/athletics/2009/0821/gillickd.html|title=Gillick sixth in 400m final|date=2009-08-21|work=RTÉ Sport|accessdate=2009-08-22|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090824084453/http://www.rte.ie/sport/athletics/2009/0821/gillickd.html|archivedate=2009-08-24}}</ref>

Gillick followed up with two good runs in the 2009 IAAF Golden League meetings in Zurich and Brussels. He finished fourth in 45.25 behind world champion [[LaShawn Merritt]] in the Weltklasse. A week later, he finished fourth in 45.73 behind [[Jeremy Wariner]] in Brussels. Gillick finished the Golden League series with 30 points and finished in fourth position.

In the [[2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships]] Gillick was the second fastest qualifier in both the heats and semi-finals but finished 5th in the final and was later disqualified as a result of a collision with the American [[Bershawn Jackson]] with 200 metres to go.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rte.ie/sport/athletics/2010/0313/262278-gillickd/|title=David Gillick disqualified in World 400m final|date=13 March 2010|work=RTE Sport|accessdate= 1 July 2021}}</ref>
At the [[2010 European Athletics Championships|European outdoors]] that year he became the first Irishman to reach the final of the 400 m where he again finished 5th.

==Other==
In 2013, he competed in [[MasterChef Ireland|Celebrity MasterChef Ireland]] and won the competition.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/irish-showbiz/david-gillick-celebrity-masterchef-winner-2183155|title= Champion athlete David Gillick is runaway winner of Celebrity Masterchef|date=19 August 2013|work=Irish Mirror|accessdate=19 August 2013 }}</ref>

==Major Medals (3)==
*[[2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships|2004 World Indoor Championship (Budapest)]]
[[File:Bronze medal icon.svg]]Bronze - 4 × 400 metres relay (3:10.44)

*[[2005 European Indoor Athletics Championships|2005 European Indoor Championships (Madrid)]]
[[File:Gold medal icon.svg]]Gold - 400 metres (46.30)

*[[2007 European Indoor Athletics Championships|2007 European Indoor Championships (Birmingham)]]
[[File:Gold medal icon.svg]]Gold - 400 metres (45.52 NR, EL)

==Performance at major championships==
{| {{AchievementTable|Event=Yes}}
|-
!colspan="6"|Representing {{IRL}}
|-
|2002
|[[2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics|World Junior Championships]]
|[[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]], Jamaica
|14th (h)
|4 × 400 m relay
|[[2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay|3:13.45]]
|-
|2003
|[[2003 European Athletics U23 Championships|European U23 Championships]]
|[[Bydgoszcz]], [[Poland]]
|23rd (h)
|400 m
|[[2003 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 400 metres|47.67]]
|-
|2009
|[[2009 World Championships in Athletics|World Athletics Championships]]
|[[Berlin]], Germany
|6th
|[[2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres|400 m]]
|45.53
|-
|rowspan=2|2010
|[[2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships|World Indoor Championships]]
|[[Doha]], [[Qatar]]
| —
|[[2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 400 metres|400 m]]
|DQ
|-
|[[2010 European Athletics Championships|European Athletics Championships]]
|[[Barcelona]], Spain
|5th
|[[2010 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres|400 m]]
|45.28
|}

==Records (1)==
*National records:
**400 m outdoor: 44.77 (4/7/2009 in Madrid, Spain)
**400 m indoor: 45.52 (5/3/2007 in Birmingham, England), (20/2/2010 in Birmingham, England)

==See also==
*[[Ireland at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics]]
*[[Ireland at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{World Athletics}}
*{{Olympics.com profile|david-gillick}}
*{{Sports-Reference|gi/david-gillick-1}}
*[http://www.davidgillick.com/ DavidGillick.com - info page, blog, photos, etc.]
*{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720010256/http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/Outdoor%20ROH.pdf |title=List of Irish Athletics National Champions}}
*[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=david+gillick&search_type=&aq=f David Gillick on YouTube]
*[https://archive.today/20070311034801/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2094-1512922,00.html Irish Boys run Well (article on Gillick and Alistair Cragg - Sunday Times, 6 March 2005)]
*{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060512092948/http://www.irishrunner.com/05euroin2dg.html |title=David Gillick Wins First Irish Sprint Gold in 73 Years (Irish Runner.com)}}
*[http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/?page_id=115 Profile on Athletics Ireland] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060718100330/http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/?page_id=115 |date=18 July 2006 }}
*{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629130939/http://www.irishrunner.com/07gillick/index.html |title=Irish Runner}}
*{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927223649/http://www.sparta-athletics.co.uk/David%20Gillick.jpg |title=Image}}
*{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720005239/http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/?p=8253 |title=Athletics Ireland}}

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