Commonwealth Games heartbreak for Kurt Fearnley

By Anya Whitelaw
Updated August 1 2014 - 7:50am, first published 7:35am
PUSHING HARD: Carcoar’s Kurt Fearnley (centre) is flanked by England’s David Weir (left) and Canada’s Alex Dupont (right) in the final of the men’s T54 1,500 metres at Hampden Park during day eight of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Photo: GETTY IMAGES 	080114kurt
PUSHING HARD: Carcoar’s Kurt Fearnley (centre) is flanked by England’s David Weir (left) and Canada’s Alex Dupont (right) in the final of the men’s T54 1,500 metres at Hampden Park during day eight of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Photo: GETTY IMAGES 080114kurt

HE gave it everything he had, but in the end Carcoar wheelchair athlete Kurt Fearnley was unable to achieve a goal he so badly wanted on Friday morning and defend his Commonwealth Games men’s T54 1,500 metres gold medal.

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