Don Faircloth

{{Short description|British athlete}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use British English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Don Faircloth | image = | image_size =  | caption = | nationality = British (English) | birth_date = 26 November 1948 | birth_place = Croydon, England | death_date = | death_place = | sport = Athletics | event = Marathon | club = Croydon Harriers | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Athletics}} {{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalBronze| 1970 Edinburgh | marathon}} }}

'''Donald Kevin Faircloth''' (born 26 November 1948), is an English former athlete.

== Biography == Faircloth, a gardener with Croydon Council, became the British marathon champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1970 AAA Championships on 13 June from Windsor to Chiswick.<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=18 May 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/aaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (men) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=18 May 2025}}</ref>

Shotly afterwards he represented England<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005765/19700608/020/0001 |title=England's Men Athletes For Games |work=Evening News (London) |date=8 June 1970 |p=1 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=24 January 2026}}</ref> in the marathon,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108075655/https://thecgf.com/results/games/3037/19/all |title=England Edinburgh 1970 |website=Commonwealth Games Federation |access-date=24 January 2026}}</ref> at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/edinburgh-1970/athletes|title=1970 Athletes|publisher=Team England}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/edinburgh-1970|title=Edinburgh, 1970 Team|publisher=Team England}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/39244|title=Athletes and results|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation}}</ref> where he won a bronze medal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/cg.htm |title=Commonwealth Games Medallists |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=24 January 2026}}</ref>

== References == {{Reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Faircloth, Don}} Category:1948 births Category:English men marathon runners Category:British men marathon runners Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games Category:Living people Category:Medallists at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in athletics