Timothy Beck

{{Short description|Dutch sprinter (born 1977)}} {{for|the pseudonymous novelist|Timothy James Beck}} {{MedalTableTop}} {{MedalSport | Men's [[Athletics (sport)|athletics]]}} {{MedalCompetition|[[IAAF World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]}} {{MedalBronze|[[2003 World Championships in Athletics|2003 Paris]]|4x100 m relay}} {{MedalBottom}}

'''Timothy Beck''' (born 2 January 1977 in [[Assen]]) is a Dutch [[Sprint (running)|sprinter]]. Together with [[Caimin Douglas]], [[Patrick van Balkom]] and [[Troy Douglas]] he won a [[bronze medal]] in the [[4 x 100 metres relay]] at the [[2003 World Championships in Athletics]]. With the same team he also participated in the [[Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay|4 x 100 meters relay]] at the [[2004 Summer Olympics]], but due to a mistake in the changing area they did not advance from the series.

Beck also competed as a [[Bobsleigh|bobsledder]] in the [[2002 Winter Olympics]] in [[Salt Lake City]], where he finished in seventeenth position in the Four Men's Bob. He carried the [[Flag of the Netherlands|Dutch flag]] at the opening ceremony of the [[2010 Winter Olympics]]. He is of African-American descent.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://afroeurope.blogspot.ca/2010/02/black-europeans-competing-at-olympic.html|title=Black Europeans competing at the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver |date=11 February 2010 |accessdate=2016-12-14}}</ref>

[[File:2010 Opening Ceremony - Netherlands entering.jpg|thumb|Timothy Beck carrying the [[Flag of the Netherlands|Dutch flag]] during the opening ceremony of the [[2010 Winter Olympics]]]]

==Personal bests== *[[60 metres]] – 6.71 (2004) *[[100 metres]] – 10.43 (2004) *[[200 metres]] – 21.54 (2003)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{World Athletics||name=Timothy Beck}}

{{s-start}} {{s-sports|oly}} {{succession box | before = [[Jan Bos]] | title = [[List of flag bearers for the Netherlands at the Olympics|Flagbearer]] for {{NED}} | years = [[2010 Winter Olympics|Vancouver 2010]] | after = [[Jorien ter Mors]] }} {{s-end}}

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