{{Short description|Jamaican-British triple jump athlete}} {{For|the actor|Ashleigh Aston Moore}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Aston Moore<br /><small>{{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MBE}}</small> | image= | imagesize = | caption = | nationality = British/Jamaican | sport = Athletics | event = Triple jump | club = Birchfield Harriers<ref>{{cite news|title=Hansen's got the world at her feet|last=Hickman|first=Leon|work=Evening Mail|location=Birmingham|date=13 February 1999|page=45}}</ref> | birth_date ={{birth date and age|1956|2|8|df=yes}} | birth_place =Spanish Town, Jamaica | height = {{height|m=1.80|precision=0}} | weight = 79 kg | medaltemplates={{Medal|Country | {{GBR}} }} {{Medal|Sport | Men's athletics}} {{Medal|Competition|Commonwealth Games}} {{Medal|Bronze |1978 Edmonton|Triple jump}} {{Medal|Bronze|1982 Brisbane|Triple jump}} {{Medal|Competition|European Indoor Championships}} {{Medal|Bronze|1981 Grenoble|Triple jump}} }}

'''Aston Llewellyn Moore''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MBE}} (born 8 February 1956) is a male Jamaican-born former track and field athlete who competed for Great Britain, specialising in the triple jump event. He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics.<ref name=oly>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69320 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=7 June 2025}}</ref>

== Biography == Moore became the British triple jump champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1976 AAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002135/19760816/343/0011 |title=Weekend sport |work=Birmingham Daily Post |date=16 August 1976 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=7 June 2025}}</ref> He was duly selected to represent Great Britain at the 1976 Olympics Games in Montreal but failed to progress past the qualifying rounds.<ref name=SRef>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/aston-moore-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417190959/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/aston-moore-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020|title=Aston Moore Biography and Statistics|work=Sports Reference|accessdate=28 January 2009}}</ref><ref name=oly/>

He regained his AAA title at the 1978 AAA Championships and shortly afterwards won a bronze medal with a jump of 16.69&nbsp;metres, representing England at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/edmonton-1978/ |title=Edmonton 1978 Team |website=Team England |access-date=7 June 2025 }}</ref>

Moore finished second behind American Paul Jordan at the 1980 AAA Championships but by virtue of being the highest placed British athlete was considered the British champion<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=7 June 2025}}</ref> and at the 1981 AAA Championships he won his third title outright.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001723/19810809/038/0038 |title=Results |work=Sunday Sun (Newcastle) |date=9 August 1981 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=13 June 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/aaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (men) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=7 June 2025}}</ref> He also won a bronze medal with a jump of 16.73&nbsp;m at the 1981 European Indoor Championships, finishing third behind Shamil Abbyasov and Klaus Kübler.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/ei.htm|title=European Indoor Championships (Men)|work=Gbrathletics|accessdate=28 January 2009}}</ref>

In 1982 he represented England in Brisbane, Australia<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/brisbane-1982/ |title=Brisbane 1982 Team |website=Team England |access-date=7 June 2025 }}</ref> and with a wind-assisted 16.76&nbsp;m, he won the bronze medal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/cg.htm|title=Commonwealth Games Medallists (Men)|work=Gbrathletics|accessdate=28 January 2009}}</ref> He also represented England, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/edinburgh-1986/athletes|title=1986 Athletes|website=Team England}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/games/3041/19/all|title=England team in 1986|website=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=5 October 2019|archive-date=19 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419153600/https://thecgf.com/results/games/3041/19/all|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/39636|title=Athletes and results|website=Commonwealth Games Federation}}</ref>

After his retirement from athletics Moore focused on coaching triple jump to younger generations. He has helped train Ashia Hansen, current UK and former world record holder for indoor triple jump, and Phillips Idowu, an Olympic silver medallist.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/browse/431/484/3739/3/7|title=Idowu and Herbert Part Ways|work=Athletics Weekly|date=24 April 2008|accessdate=28 January 2009}}</ref> His son Jonathan Moore won the gold medal for triple jump at the 2001 World Youth Championships.<ref>{{cite news|last=Rowbottom|first=Mike|date=10 January 2002|page=19|title=Athletics: Moore aims to end leap year with double gold|work=The Independent|location=London}}</ref>

Moore was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to athletics.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=63918|supp=y|page=N22|date=31 December 2022}}</ref>

He is currently an athletics coach, based in Birmingham, West Midlands.<ref>{{cite news|title=Phillips Idowu to miss World Championships after taking a break from athletics for 'the foreseeable future'|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=10 July 2013}}</ref> He is a member of the National Coaching Federation and is employed as national event coach for the triple jump by UK Athletics.<ref>{{cite news|title=Leaping ahead at the triple|last=Mott|first=Sue|work=Scotland on Sunday|location=Edinburgh|date=13 December 1998}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Team GB's Phillips Idowu cuts himself off from coach Aston Moore|first=Simon|last=Turnbull|date=1 August 2012|work=The Independent|location=London|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/athletics/team-gbs-phillips-idowu-cuts-himself-off-from-coach-aston-moore-7999098.html|accessdate=30 August 2013}}</ref>

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== External links == * [http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=3705 Profile] at British Olympic Association website

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