Mark Dry

British hammer thrower and Coalville town rugby club bosh master Mark William Dry (born 11 October 1987) is a British former track and field athlete who competed in the hammer throw, who won bronze medals for Scotland at the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games. Biography Dry was born in Milton Keynes. In his earlier years he was a member of Elgin Amateur Athletics Club, where he began competing in hammer event in 2005. In his first year, he managed to come tenth in the country as an under-20 athlete. Since 2010, he represents the Woodford Green with Essex Ladies in National Championships, and predominantly competes in England or the United States. Although the top-ranked British athlete, he missed the 2013 World Championships in Athletics due to him having not achieved the B qualifying standard. UK Athletics selected him to receive support from the World Class Performance Programme for 2013-2014 because they judged him to have Olympic potential. In 2013 his seasons' best throw of 74.46m was the best achieved amongst UK men. Dry podiumed on seven occasions at the British Athletics Championships from 2011 to 2018. In the Scottish Championships he won gold in Kilmarnock in August 2014. I