Jeff Teale
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| Nationality | British (English) | |||||||||||
| Born | 20 December 1939 Newthorpe, North Yorkshire, England | |||||||||||
| Died | 16 January 1997 (aged 58) | |||||||||||
| Height | 187 cm (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||
| Weight | 118 kg (260 lb) | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||
| Event | shot put | |||||||||||
| Club | Doncaster PW AC | |||||||||||
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Jeffrey Teale (20 December 1939 – 16 January 1997) was a British international athlete who competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics.[1]
Biography
[edit]Teale finished third behind Hannes Botha in the shot put event at the 1966 AAA Championships[2] and second behind Dawid Booysen at the 1967 AAA Championships but by virtue of being the highest placed British athlete at the 1967 event, was considered the British shot put champion.[3]
He won the AAA title outright at the 1968 AAA Championships,[4] not long before he represented Great Britain at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City.[5]
Teale won a final AAA title at the 1968 AAA Championships[6][4] and represented England and winning a silver medal in the shot put at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[7][8][9]
In 1974, he was suspended for life by the British Amateur Athletic board after admitting in a newspaper article that he used steroids.[10] During the period that he used steroids (1967-1972) he won a silver medal which under current athletics legislation would not recognised today.
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jeff Teale". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 15 December 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
- ^ "Hurdler Dave flies in for Britain". The People. 10 July 1966. Retrieved 9 May 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "AAA Championships (men)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
- ^ a b "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
- ^ "Biographical Information". Olympedia. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
- ^ "White City results". The People. 14 July 1968. Retrieved 11 May 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "1970 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Edinburgh, 1970 Team". Team England.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ Kremenik, Michael; Onodera, Sho; Nagao, Mitsuhiro; Yuzuki, Osamu; Yonetani, Shozo (2007). "A Historical Timeline of Doping in the Olympics (Part II 1970-1988)" (PDF). Kawasaki Journal of Medical Welfare. 12 (2): 69–83. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 January 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
- 1939 births
- 1997 deaths
- English male shot putters
- British male shot putters
- Olympic athletes for Great Britain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Yorkshire
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Medallists at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century English sportsmen