Helen Elleker

{{Short description|English track and field athlete}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = | name = Helen Elleker | image = | image_size =  | caption = | nationality = British (English) | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1956|03|21|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | sport = Athletics | event = racewalking | height = | weight = | club = Sheffield<br>Derbyshire & South Yorkshire | pb = }}

'''Helen Elleker''' (born 21 March 1956) is a former female track and field athlete who competed for England in the walking events.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/helen-elleker-60499|title=Profile|website=IAAF}}</ref>

== Biography == Elleker finished third behind Canadian Ann Peel in the 5,000m walk event at the 1983 WAAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004941/19830731/479/0027 |title=Athletics |work=Sunday Express |date=31 July 1983 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=16 March 2025}}</ref>

The following year Elleker became the British 10,000 metres walk champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1984 WAAA Championships<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004941/19840617/545/0031 |title=Plucky Win for Fatima |work=Sunday Express |date=17 June 1984 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=16 March 2025 }}</ref> and would go on to win it again at the 1985 WAAA Championships and the 1986 WAAA Championships, in addition to becoming the 5,000 metres champion in 1986.<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=16 March 2025}}</ref>

Elleker represented England in the 10,000 metres walk event, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/auckland-1990/athletes|title=1990 Athletes|website=Team England}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/games/3042/19/all|title=England team in 1990|website=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=8 October 2019|archive-date=4 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404120931/https://thecgf.com/results/games/3042/19/all|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/40237|title=Athletes and results|website=Commonwealth Games Federation}}</ref>

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