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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1960-08-25)25 August 1960 (age 65) Keighley, West Yorkshire | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | long-distance | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Bingley Harriers | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Stephen John Binns (born 25 August 1960) is a British formerlong-distance runner who competed at the1988 Summer Olympics.[1]
Binns rose to prominence in 1979 as a junior athlete. First he took the individual and team silver medals at the1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships junior race, then won the5000 metres at the1979 European Athletics Junior Championships – his winning time of 13:44.37 minutes remains the championship record as of 2014. He capped the season with aEuropean junior record of 13:27.04 minutes in London.
As a senior athlete he competed five times at theIAAF World Cross Country Championships (1981 to 1988) and competed twice for Great Britain at theWorld Championships in Athletics (1983 and 1987).
RepresentingEngland he was the silver medallist in the10,000 metres at the1986 Commonwealth Games inEdinburgh, Scotland, behind compatriotJon Solly.[2][3][4]
Binns was on the podium of theAAA Championships four times in the 5,000 or 10,000 metres before finally becoming theBritish 10,000 metres champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the1988 AAA Championships.[5][6]
