Stephen Payton (born 17 May 1977 in Uphall, Scotland) is a

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from

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competing mainly in category T38 sprint events. Payton has competed in four Paralympics, his first and most successful was in

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where he had a clean sweep of the T37 sprint events, winning gold in 100m,200m and 400m as well as winning a silver in the T34-37 4 × 100 m as part of the British team. Four years later in

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he was not as successful winning bronze medals in both the T38 100m and 200m and a silver in the 400m and being part of the British team that improved to silver in the T38 relay. By the

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games Stephen was not part of the relay team but did still compete in the three individual sprint races but only managed a bronze in the 400m. In the

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he competed in the 200m and 400m but for the first time in four games did not win a single medal. He also competed at four IPC world championships in Berlin 1994 Birmingham UK 1998 Lillie 2002 and Assen 2006 . Winning 7 gold 2 silver and 1 bronze medals. He has held the European T38 400m record since 1994 (51:37 ) IPC European champ 200m 400m 2003 t38 classification

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* 1977 births Living people British male sprinters Paralympic athletes for Great Britain Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Great Britain Paralympic silver medalists for Great Britain Paralympic bronze medalists for Great Britain Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) People from Uphall Sportspeople from West Lothian Scottish male sprinters {{UK-Paralympic-medalist-stub