Steve Ovett

Quick Facts

Full Name	Steve Ovett
Occupation	Runner
Date Of Birth	Oct 9, 1955(1955-10-09)
Age	69
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Libra

Steve Ovett Biography

Steve Ovett is one of the most popular and richest Runner who was born on October 9, 1955 in England, United Kingdom. English distance runner from England who took home the 800m Olympic gold medal and 1500 meters bronze medal at in the year 1980 at Moscow Games.

He brought home long-distance gold for his country in 1980; Mo Farah would do the same in 2012.brought home gold from long distances to his country in 1980; Mo Farah will do similar in 2012.

Born in Brighton, Sussex, and educated at Varndean Grammar School (now Varndean College), Ovett was a talented teenage athlete. As a youngster, he showed great promise as a footballer, but gave it up for athletics, because he did not want to play a sport where he would have to rely on teammates. As a youngster he won the under-15 (Junior boys) English Schools’ Athletics Championships title at 400 metres in 1970 and the under-17 (Intermediate boys) 800 metres title in 1972.

Ovett’s first major athletics title came in 1973, when he won the 800 metres at the 1973 European Athletics Junior Championships. The following year, still only aged 18, he won the silver medal at 800 metres in the 1974 European Athletics Championships, setting a new European Junior 800m record of 1:45.77 in the process. Ovett won AAA titles in the 800m from 1974 to 1976; he would later add to these AAA titles by winning the 1500m in 1979 and the mile in 1980.

The Ovett brothers are Nicholas and Nicholas Ovett, who was an Olympic athlete in luge.

Steve Ovett Net Worth

Steve Ovett is one of the richest Runner from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Steve Ovett 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a European Junior Champion in 1973.

His record was held by the UK record of 2 miles for more than three decades.

Stephen Michael James “Steve” Ovett OBE (/oʊ ˈ v ɛ t / ; born 9 October 1955), is a former track athlete from England. A middle-distance runner, he was the gold medalist in the 800 metres at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, and set several world records for 1500 metres and the mile run and a world best at two miles.

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Though in 1980 Ovett had tied Coe’s 1500 m world record of 3:32.1, new timing rules would come into effect in 1981, which would recognise records over 400 m to the hundredth of a second. This would have the effect of giving Coe sole possession of the record, as Coe ran 3:32.03 to Ovett’s 3:32.09. However, Ovett avoided this unusual removal of a record via rule change by setting a new record later in 1980 of 3:31.36.

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Steve Ranked on the list of most popular Runner. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Steve Ovett celebrates birthday on October 9 of every year.

During his career, Ovett was noted for the unusual range and timing of his races; shortly before the 1980 Olympics in 10 days he ran four events of four different lengths: a mile in Oslo, 800 metres in Gothenburg, 600m at Crystal Palace and 3,000m in Welwyn Garden City. In 1977, when an airline strike forced him to miss a scheduled event, he signed up at the last minute for the Dartford half-marathon and won it with ease, running a course more than twice as long as anything he had attempted in public before, against the British marathon champion.