the first time in history that England have completed a 1-2-3 clean sweep in the 110 m hurdles. Clarke became national champion when he won the UK Senior 110 m hurdles title in 13.58s in July 2011, earning him a place on the UK team at the World Championships in Daegu. He competed at the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea where he went out in the first round with a time of 13.65s (-0.2 m/s). The winner of his heat was Jason Richardson who went on to win the Championships after Dayron Robles, the 2008 Olympic Champion and World Record holder, was disqualified after the final. 2012 Summer Olympics On 24 June 2012, he achieved selection for Great Britain in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He ran a new personal best of 13.31 (-0.5 m/s) in his Olympic Semi final on 8 August. As a result, he qualified as the only European for the 110 m Men's Hurdles Final as a fastest loser. Running from lane 2 in the final he finished an unexpected fourth place with a time of 13.39 seconds beating the 2009 World Champion, Ryan Brathwaite, into fifth. Post London He broke his wrist in the winter of 2012 followed by a series of hamstring tears that saw him miss high level competition in 2013. He returned to International competition in 2014 finishing eighth at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. Two weeks later he competed at the European Athletics Championships in Zurich only to tear his hamstring five minutes before the call room for the European Final. In March 2015 he was appointed Team Captain of Great Britain at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Prague. He finished fifth in the 60 m hurdles. That summer he competed at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing exiting in the semi-finals. After the World Championships he made the decision to leave Malcolm Arnold (athletics coach) OBE and Bath and moved to Paris to train with Giscard Samba Koundys and Dimitri Bascou. He competed at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Portland, Oregon, U.S. in March 2016 just missing out on the Men's 60 m Hurdles final. His training partner Dimitri Bascou went on to win the bronze medal. In July 2016 he was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He finished