Simon Fairbrother (born 28 March 1968) is a British former middle-distance runner who specialised in the

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ...

. His personal best for the event was 3:38.64 minutes, set in 1992, and he also set a

mile run The mile run (1,760 yards or exactly 1,609.344 metres) is a middle-distance foot race. The history of the mile run event began in England, where it was used as a distance for gambling races. It survived track and field's switch to ...

best of 3:56.83 minutes. He was a one-time champion at the

UK Athletics Championships The UK Athletics Championships was an annual national championship in track and field for the United Kingdom, organised by the British Athletics Federation. The event incorporated the 1980 Olympic trials for the British Olympic team. The venue f ...

, winning in 1991, and was a close runner-up to

Curtis Robb Curtis Robb (born 7 June 1972) is a former British middle distance runner, who competed at two consecutive Summer Olympics for Great Britain, in 1992 and 1996. Running career Robb first began running with Liverpool Harriers & AC, a racing team ...

in 1993. In his sole major international performance he won a bronze medal for Great Britain at the

1992 IAAF World Cup The 6th IAAF World Cup in Athletics was an international track and field sporting event sponsored by the International Association of Athletics Federations, held on September 25–27, 1992, at the Estadio Panamericano in Havana, Cuba. Overall res ...

held in Havana, unexpectedly holding out against Europe's runner Fermín Cacho, who had won Olympic gold the previous month. At county level, he represented Middlesex as part of

Enfield and Haringey Athletic Club Enfield and Haringey Athletic Club is an athletics club based in North London. The club has tracks in two locations; Lee Valley Athletics Centre and New River Stadium. History Enfield and Haringey AC was formed in 1999 with the merger of Borough ...

in the early and mid 1990s.Simon Fairbrother
Power of 10. Retrieved on 2016-04-24.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fairbrother, Simon 1968 births Living people English male middle-distance runners