Steve Binns
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 August 1960 Keighley, West Yorkshire | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | long-distance | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Bingley Harriers | ||||||||||||||
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Stephen John Binns (born 25 August 1960) is a British former long-distance runner who competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics.[1]
Biography
[edit]Binns rose to prominence in 1979 as a junior athlete. First he took the individual and team silver medals at the 1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships junior race, then won the 5000 metres at the 1979 European Athletics Junior Championships – his winning time of 13:44.37 minutes remains the championship record as of 2014. He capped the season with a European junior record of 13:27.04 minutes in London.
As a senior athlete he competed five times at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships (1981 to 1988) and competed twice for Great Britain at the World Championships in Athletics (1983 and 1987).
Representing England he was the silver medallist in the 10,000 metres at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, behind compatriot Jon Solly.[2][3][4]
Binns was on the podium of the AAA Championships four times in the 5,000 or 10,000 metres before finally becoming the British 10,000 metres champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1988 AAA Championships.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Steve Binns". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
- ^ "1986 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "England team in 1986". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 19 April 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
- ^ "AAA Championships (men)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Keighley
- Athletes from Yorkshire
- English male long-distance runners
- British male long-distance runners
- Olympic athletes for Great Britain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists in athletics