{{short description|English long jumper}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = | name = Geoff Hignett | image = | image_size = <!--Only for images narrower than 220 pixels.--> | caption = | nationality = British (English) | birth_date = {{birth date and age|5 October 1950}} | birth_place = Ormskirk, England | death_date = | death_place = | sport = Athletics | event = long jump | height = | weight = | club = Pembroke AC<br>Stretford AC | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{flagu|Great Britain}}}} {{MedalCompetition|Summer Universiade}} {{MedalBronze|1970 Turin|Long jump}} }}
'''Geoffrey John Hignett''' (born 5 October 1950), is a male former athlete who competed for England.
== Biography == Hignett represented England in the long jump, 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/39056|title=Athletes and results|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=14 August 2019|archive-date=14 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814104954/https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/39056|url-status=dead}}</ref> and also competed at the 1971 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki and won a bronze medal at the Universiade.
Hignett became the British long jump champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1973 AAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002454/19730715/235/0020 |title=Results |work=The People |date=15 July 1973 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=29 May 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002137/19730715/319/0042 |title=Dave's run for the money |work=Sunday Mirror |date=15 July 1973 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=29 May 2025}}</ref> He would later podium twice more at the AAAs at the 1974 AAA Championships and the 1975 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=29 May 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/aaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (men) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=29 May 2025}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hignett, Geoff}} Category:1950 births Category:Living people Category:English men long jumpers Category:British men long jumpers Category:Sportspeople from Ormskirk Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games Category:Commonwealth Games athletes for England Category:Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Category:FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Great Britain Category:Medalists at the 1970 Summer Universiade