John Carew (born 17 September 1952) is a retired sprint runner from

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierra ...

. He competed in the 100 m event at the

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, but failed to reach the final. In 1974 Carew came from Sierra Leone to the Soviet Union to study at the Rostov Institute of Civil Engineering. He married a Russian woman in 1978 in Rostov, and had four children with her: Olah, Willy,

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and

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. Olah became an actor, Willy a singer, while Victor and Katerina are international basketball players. John Carew later returned to Sierra Leone, after being awarded a degree PhD in technical sciences, leaving his family in Russia.

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1952 births Living people Sierra Leonean male sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Sierra Leone {{SierraLeone-athletics-bio-stub