Stephen Walsh (athlete)
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Full name | Stephen Craig Walsh | ||||||||||||||
Born | Dunedin, New Zealand | 17 December 1960||||||||||||||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||
Spouse |
Vivien Binney (m. 1993) | ||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Country | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||
Event | Long jump | ||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
National finals | Long jump champion (1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Stephen Craig Walsh (born 17 December 1960) is a retired male long jumper from New Zealand. He competed in the 1982 Commonwealth Games winning bronze, and in 1984 Summer Olympic Games.[2] He won the New Zealand national men's long jump title in seven consecutive years, from 1980 to 1986.[3]
Walsh was born in Dunedin on 17 December 1960,[2][4] and educated at Otago Boys' High School.[5] He went on to study at Auckland Technical Institute from 1981 to 1983, gaining a Diploma of Physiotherapy, and the University of Otago from 1987 to 1991, graduating MB ChB.[5] Between 1984 and 1986, he worked as a physiotherapist at Dunedin Hospital, and after completing his medical studies he worked in general practice.[5] In 1993, Walsh married Vivien Binney.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Steve Walsh at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- ^ a b Stephen Walsh at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
- ^ Hollings, Stephen (December 2016). "National champions 1887–2016" (PDF). Athletics New Zealand. p. 40. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
- ^ Stephen Walsh at Olympics.com
- ^ a b c d Taylor, Alister, ed. (2001). New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa 2001. Auckland: Alister Taylor Publishers. p. 916. ISSN 1172-9813.
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Athletes from Dunedin
- People educated at Otago Boys' High School
- Auckland University of Technology alumni
- University of Otago alumni
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand
- New Zealand male long jumpers
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Olympic athletes for New Zealand
- Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- New Zealand Athletics Championships winners
- 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen
- New Zealand athletics biography stubs