Brian Marshall (born April 1, 1965) is a Canadian retired track and field athlete, who competed in the men's high jump at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Marshall was an active athlete in high school, setting a national Canada-wide high jump record at the high school level in 1981."New track passes first test". Ottawa Citizen, July 2, 1981. He subsequently attended Stanford University, where he won a Pac-10 championship in the high jump in 1988;"Cardinal Men Finish Third; Women Fourth" . Stanford Athletics, June 21, 1999. his jump remained the all-time record for a Stanford University athlete as of 2016."Stanford Men's Track and Field Outdoor All-Time Top 10 Thru 2016" .
At the 1988 Summer Olympics, he jumped , placing 17th — a tie with fellow Canadian jumper Milton Ottey and South Korean jumper Cho Hyun-Wook — and failing to qualify for the finals.
Marshall came out as gay in 1994 by attending a political gala at Rideau Hall as the guest of Svend Robinson, Canada's first openly gay Member of Parliament."Gay and proud: Canada's only publicly gay MP tells his story". Maclean's, May 16, 1994. He was also a panelist at the 2003 National Gay and Lesbian Athletics Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on a panel of LGBT Olympians that also included swimmer Mark Tewksbury and rower Harriet Metcalf."GLAF convention brings gay athletes to Boston" . Bay Windows, March 27, 2003.
Achievements Representing 1988 Summer OlympicsMen's high jumpSeoul, South Korea17th
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