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Steve Ovett
British former middle distance runner
Stephen Michael James Ovett, OBE (; born 9 October ) is a retired British track athlete. A middle-distance runner, he was the gold medalist in the metres at the Olympic Games in Moscow.
Ovett set five world records for metres and the mile run, and a world best at two miles.
Steve ovett biography
He won 45 consecutive and mile races from to
Early life
Born in Brighton, Sussex, and educated at Varndean Grammar School, Ovett was a talented teenage athlete. As a youngster, he showed great promise as a footballer, but gave it up for athletics, because he preferred individual rather than team sports.[citation needed] As a youngster he won the under (Junior boys) English Schools' Athletics Championships title at metres in and the under (Intermediate boys) metres title in [2]
Athletics career
Early promise
Ovett's first major athletics title came in , when he won the metres at the European Athletics Junior Championships.
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