{{short description|British long-distance runner}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Julian Goater | image = | caption = | nationality = British (English) | sport = Athletics | event = long-distance | club = Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers | birth_date = {{birth date and age|12 January 1953}} | birth_place = Southampton, England | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | medaltemplates= {{Medal|Sport | Men's Athletics}} {{Medal|Country | {{ENG}} }} {{Medal|Competition|IAAF World Cross Country Championships}} {{Medal|Gold| 1979 Limerick | Team}} {{Medal|Silver| 1982 Rome | Team}} {{Medal|Competition|Commonwealth Games}} {{Medal|Bronze| 1982 Brisbane | 10,000m}} {{Medal|Competition|Summer Universiade}} {{Medal|Bronze|1975 Rome|10,000m}} }}
'''Julian Norris Goater''' (born 12 January 1953) is a male British former long-distance runner.
== Biography == Goater was born in Southampton, England but grew up in Mill Hill, London, and began his running career while attending The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree, where his father Barry (1930-2022) was a Biology master. In 1979 he was a member of the team that took the gold medal at IAAF World Cross Country Championships. He was also in the team that won the silver medal in World Cross Country Championships in 1982. In 1981 he was the National Cross Country champion and finished 4th in IAAF WCCC. He set the second fastest 5000m time for a Briton (behind Brendan Foster) when he ran a time of 13:15.59 in 1981 at Crystal Palace, London. His best time for the 10,000 m is 27:34.58 which was achieved in Oslo in 1982 and is still in the UK top 10 of best ever times.
Goater became the British 10,000 metres champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1982 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=12 June 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/aaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (men) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=12 June 2025}}</ref>
He represented England and won a bronze medal in the 10,000 metres event, at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/brisbane-1982/athletes|title=1982 Athletes|website=Team England|access-date=2020-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821205719/https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/brisbane-1982/athletes|archive-date=2019-08-21|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/35827|title=Athletes and results|website=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=2020-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001170202/https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/35827|archive-date=2019-10-01|url-status=live}}</ref>
Goater took up triathlon and duathlon in the 1990s competing at National and International Age-Group levels. During the late 1990s he joined Team Volcano International, run by Chris Eversfield and Iain Parsons, competing for the TVI Team Volcano team over a number of seasons. Goater achieved a gold medal at the World Duathon Championships (2001) in Rimini, picking up another gold in Australia in 2005. He remains an active coach, athlete and author. He is now living in Surrey and visits schools around Bracknell to give talks to children.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.athleticsweekly.com/featured/where-are-they-now-julian-goater-38773/|title=Where are they now? JULIAN GOATER|date=2016-02-07|website=AW|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180801155729/http://www.athleticsweekly.com/featured/where-are-they-now-julian-goater-38773|archive-date=2018-08-01|url-status=live}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.gbrathletics.com/uk/mindex.pdf gbrathletics] *{{sports links}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Goater, Julian}} Category:1953 births Category:Living people Category:Athletes from Southampton Category:English men long-distance runners Category:British men long-distance runners Category:Duathletes Category:British male triathletes Category:English male triathletes Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1982 Commonwealth Games Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain Category:Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Category:People educated at Haberdashers' Boys' School Category:FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Great Britain Category:Competitors at the 1973 Summer Universiade Category:Medalists at the 1975 Summer Universiade Category:Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in athletics