Andrew Vernon

Andrew James Vernon (born 7 January 1986) is a British former 5000 metres, 10,000 metres and cross country athlete. After the 2018 Commonwealth Games, he focused on road racing, winning the Manchester Half Marathon with the aim of doing a full marathon in 2019. Vernon competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's 10,000metres. He has also competed in two Commonwealth Games, a World Indoor Championship and six World Cross Country Championships. Vernon is a two-time European Athletics Championship medallist and a Summer Universiade gold medallist. Vernon's next international competition was the 2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships where he again competed in the junior men's race, this time finishing 48th. At the 2005 European Athletics Junior Championships he competed in the 5000metres; finishing 4th in a time of 14minutes and 27seconds. Vernon competed in his fourth World Cross Country Championships in the 2009 edition. In 2014 Vernon didn't compete in either of the major cross country championships. The 2015 European Team Championships was Vernon's only major competition in 2015.

2017 In March 2017, Vernon won the Reading Half Marathon with a time of 1:03:08.

Controversy In February 2015 Vernon was involved in an argument with fellow British athlete Mo Farah on Twitter. The argument started when Vernon criticised other athletes in a race Farah was due to compete in. Farah responded by criticising Vernon and the two continued to argue for over an hour.

Also, in August 2014, Vernon was involved in a Twitter argument with fellow British athlete Lynsey Sharp.