Dennis Coates

{{short description|British middle-distance runner}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Dennis Coates | image = | caption = | nationality = British (English) | sport = Middle-distance running | event = Steeplechase | club = Gateshead Harriers | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|2|11|df=yes}} | birth_place = Sunderland, England | death_date = | death_place = | height =175 cm | weight =66 kg }}

'''Dennis Malcolm Coates''' (born 11 February 1953) is a male British retired middle-distance runner who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics.<ref name="SportsRef">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/dennis-coates-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417190950/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/dennis-coates-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Dennis Coates Olympic Results |access-date=24 November 2017}}</ref>

== Biography == Coates finished second behind Tony Staynings in the 3,000 metres steeplechase event at the 1975 AAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002137/19750803/288/0033 |title=Stewart Mystery |work=Sunday Mirror |date=3 August 1975 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=31 May 2025}}</ref> At the 1976 Olympics Games in Montreal, Coates represented Great Britain in the men's 3000 metres steeplechase.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68968 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=8 March 2025}}</ref>

Caotes twice became the British 3000 metres steeplechase champion after winning the British AAA Championships titles at the 1977 AAA Championships and the 1978 AAA Championships.<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=30 May 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/aaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (men) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=31 May 2025}}</ref>

Coates represented England in the 3,000 metres steeplechase event, at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/edmonton-1978/athletes|title=1978 Athletes|website=Team England}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/37192|title=Athletes and results|website=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=28 September 2019|archive-date=28 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928095740/https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/37192|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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