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Colin Jackson - Resilience

Legends of Welsh Sport Series 4

Colin Jackson is Wales’s most successful male track athlete - world champion and record holder, this is the untold story of how he came back from failure to become world number one.

We know Colin Jackson as the voice of the Olympics, star of Strictly and a true national treasure. What we forget is that as a 110m hurdler, he is a true sporting legend. 

This film tells the story of Jackson’s phenomenal rise from a council estate in Cardiff to world number one, and how his greatest disappointment fuelled an unstoppable rise to an historic run at the World Championships in Stuttgart.

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29 minutes

Last on

Sun 19 Jan 2025 17:05
BBC One Wales HD & Wales only

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Credits

Director Eric Haynes
Producer Eric Haynes
Executive Producer Gwenllian Hughes
Editor Paul Owen
Production Company Kailash Films

Broadcasts

  • Tue 14 Jan 2025 22:40
    BBC One Wales & Wales HD only
  • Sun 19 Jan 2025 17:05
    BBC One Wales HD & Wales only

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