User:Pitchcoach

MICHAEL PARKER. British Athlete, ad man and Pitchcoach. A 110 metre high hurdler whose career spanned the sixties, competing for UK in over 30 international competitions. He was first Brtish hurdler to break the '14 second barrier', with a time of 13.9 seconds in Budapest in 1963,a national record that stood for six years. He competed at the Olympics in Tokyo, 1964 and Mexico, 1968. He gained a silver medal at the Commowealth Games in Jamaica, 1966. A 35 year advertising career included spells at FCB and McCann Erikson before joining Saatchi and Saatchi where he was a Vice Chairman and founder of Team Saatchi. He now runs his consultancy, Pitchcoach and is a trustee of the Foundling Museum.