Carl Edward Thackery (born 14 October 1962 in Sheffield, England) is a retired British long-distance runner, who competed in the 1980s and 1990s.

[1] He also finished 14th in the 1986 European Athletics Championships – Men's 10,000 metres, won team silver at the 1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race (where he finished 20th),[2] and won team silver at the IAAF World Road Relay Championships in 1986, helping to set a UK record for the road marathon relay in the process.

[9] Thackery won a number of prestigious international road races, including the City-Pier-City Half Marathon in The Hague,[10] the Roma-Ostia Half Marathon (twice),[11] the 15 km Seven Hills Race (Zevenheuvelenloop) in Nijmegen, the Netherlands,[12] the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run in Washington DC,[13] the Trevira Twosome 10 miles in New York Central Park,[14] the Jean Bouin Memorial in Barcelona (twice),[15] and La Matesina 10 km in Bojano/Italy.

[16] In the UK, he won the Nike Blaydon Race in 1998[17] and ran world-class sub-46.40 min times when winning the Brampton-Carlisle and Erewash 10 miles in 1991 and 1992 respectively.

[21] Thackery set the British and Commonwealth records for 20,000 metres and one hour on the track at La Flèche in France in 1990.