David Thomas Culbert (born 17 March 1967 in

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) is a former international

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athlete. In an international

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career that spanned ten years, he won two

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silver medals in

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and

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and also made finals at the 1992 Olympics.Athletics - men's long jump
/ref> Since his retirement, he has established himself as Australia's track and field commentator working with

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and SBS as well as various radio stations. In 2004 and 2005 he hosted a Sunday morning discussion show, ''The Insiders'' on Melbourne station

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. In his role as a commentator, he has called Athletics at the 2000, 2004 and

2008 Olympic Games The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

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and

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and

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and the past five

World Athletics Championships The World Athletics Championships (until 2019 known as the World Championships in Athletics) are a biennial athletics competition organized by World Athletics (formerly IAAF, International Association of Athletics Federations). Alongside the Ol ...

. He has also held the role of reporter/producer on Channel Seven programs ''

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'', '' The Olympic Show'' and ''

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''. Culbert runs a sports media, promotion and marketing firm called Jump Media and has clients including

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and the

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. He has worked on projects for

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, the

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and

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1967 births Living people Australian male long jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1986 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Olympic athletes for Australia Athletes from Sydney Australian Institute of Sport track and field athletes Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Sportsmen from New South Wales {{Australia-athletics-bio-stub