Jeff Gutteridge
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| Nationality | British (English) | |||||||||||
| Born | 28 October 1956 Slough, England | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||
| Event | Pole vault | |||||||||||
| Club | Windsor, Slough & Eton AC | |||||||||||
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Jeffrey Gutteridge (born 28 October 1956) is an English former pole vaulter who represented Great Britain at two Summer Olympics.[1] He was the national pole vault champion on several occasions.
Biography
[edit]Gutteridge, who is from Slough, competed in the qualifying rounds of the 1976 Summer Olympics, the youngest athlete in the field at 19-years of age.[2]
He represented England in the pole vault event, at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada.[3] Four years later he represented England and won a silver medal at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia, behind Ray Boyd.[4][5][6]
At the 1984 Summer Olympics he qualified for the final after registering a 5.30m jump in the preliminary rounds. In the final he successfully cleared 5.10m and finished in 11th position.[7]
Gutteridge was a four-times British pole vault champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1983 AAA Championships, 1984 AAA Championships and 1987 AAA Championships[8] and by virtue of being the highest placed British athlete (with Keith Stock) in 1979.[9]
In 1988 he tested positive, while training, for anabolic steroids. He was given a life ban, which was later reduced.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Olympedia – Jeff Gutteridge". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
- ^ "Athletics at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games: Men's Pole Vault". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
- ^ "1978 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Sports Results, Detail". The Canberra Times. 14 October 1982. p. 26. Retrieved 19 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "1982 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Athletics at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games: Men's Pole Vault". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 30 August 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
- ^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
- ^ "AAA Championships (men)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
- ^ Mackay, Duncan (15 July 2002). "Whitlock and Wilkins face drug bans on eve of games". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
External links
[edit]- 1956 births
- Living people
- English male pole vaulters
- British male pole vaulters
- Olympic athletes for Great Britain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Doping cases in athletics
- English sportspeople in doping cases
- Sportspeople from Slough
- Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games