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Dean started out in athletics as a triple jumper but graduated up through the octathlon to settle on the decathlon. He was also on the books of Arsenal as a youngster but gave up football to train for the World Junior Championships in 1995.
Deans major breakthrough was when he won silver medal at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics at the Olympic Stadium Seville Spain. Dean Recorded a personal best of 8556 points finishing behind gold medallist Tomáš Dvořák of the Czech Republic.
The following year at theSyney 200 Summer Olympics after an injury ravaged year, Dean recorded another personal best score of 8567 points but could only finish fourth. The title was won by Estonian, Erki Nool.
Dean was back amongst the medals at the 2001 World Championships in the Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, improving on his personal best yet again, with 8603 points finishing with the bronze medal, once again behind Tomáš Dvořák (gold medal), and Erki Nool (silver medal).
Injuries forced him to miss the 2002 Commonwealth Games, held at the City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester, England and all other major competitions until making his comeback at Hexham, England, July 2004.
His score in Hexham of 7842 points was, purposely, just enough to meet the B qualifying standard of 7700 for the upcoming Summer Olympic Games.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece Dean performed well, in view of the recent years away from competition, but with a possible medal in his grasp, a below par pole vault and javelin throw once again left him in fourth place at an Olympic competition behind Roman Šebrle (gold) and Bryan Clay (silver).
At the 2006 Commonwealth Games, despite still nursing some injuries, Dean led after the first day with a personal best of 15.83 metres in the last round of the shot put. Over the course of the second day, that gap was reduced and overhauled by the Australian Jason Dudley because of injury-hampered performances in the 110 m hurdles and the javelin. Going into the final event, the 1500 metres, Dean needed to score 38 points more than Dudley to claim gold. He completed the event in 4:34.22, which gave him the gold medal by 69 points. Dean finished with a total of 8,143 points, ahead of Dudley (silver) and the Jamaican Maurice Smith (bronze).
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