Colin Jackson (CBE) is a Welsh former sprint and hurdling athlete. He now works as a sports commentator for athletics and as a television presenter, predominantly for the BBC.

Colin Jackson (CBE) is a Welsh former sprint and hurdling athlete. He now works as a sports commentator for athletics and as a television presenter, predominantly for the BBC.

Without a doubt one of the greatest athletes that Great Britain has ever produced, Colin Jackson called time on his outstanding athletics career in front of an adoring home crowd at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 2003. After more than a decade spent at the very pinnacle of his sport, it was a fitting end to a glittering career.

Colin ranked in the world top 10 for 16 years and was World number one from 1992 to1994. For the last seven years of his career, he was never out of the world's top three. Since setting a European junior record of 13.44 in 1986, Colin went on to set seven European, eight Commonwealth and nine UK records at 110mh. Colin still holds the World Record over 60mh indoors (7.30, Sindelfingen 1994) and, has only recently been robbed of his 13 year World Record over 110mh outdoors (12.91, World Title, Stuttgart 1993).

Upon retirement, Colin was a natural choice to become one of the key members of the BBC's sports production team and he continues to cover much of their Athletics output as a BBC pundit and presenter.

Colin is a regular reporter for the BBC's The One Show, and in 2006 he traced his roots in a moving episode of the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are. In 2007 he filmed The Truth About You, a BBC documentary looking at the science behind his body, brain and success. Colin dazzled us all with his dancing skills on ITV's Strictly Come Dancing, and was thrilled to make it into the final.

Colin works extensively with the BBC Wales award nominated sport website, Raise your Game, which, with the help of celebrity interviews and invaluable advice, encourages children to be ambitious in sport and life in general. Colin uses his travels, working as both producer and presenter, to produce an interactive website which includes video clips and interviews, and diaries the determination needed by sports men and women to achieve their goals and ambitions.

In line with his on screen presenting and commentary, Colin is a confident and charismatic conference/awards host and a high level motivational speaker. With an unprecedented competitive career behind him coupled with his fresh-faced charm and friendly warmth he has been extremely well received by numerous audiences including IT Conventions and Business Forums. The National Training & UK Skills Awards are just one of many corporations greatly impressed with Colin's presentation style, "Colin, a huge thank you for being such a superb host for our National Training Award events. You hit just the right note, made the winners feel special and brought your own personal energy and enthusiasm to all the events. We were also delighted that your own skills development journey mirrored our aims and objectives so well. Thank you".