# Julian Goater
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{{short description|British long-distance runner}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Julian Goater
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| nationality = British (English)
| sport = [Athletics](/source/Sport_of_athletics)
| event = long-distance
| club = [Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers](/source/Shaftesbury_Barnet_Harriers)
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|12 January 1953}}
| birth_place = [Southampton](/source/Southampton), England
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{{Medal|Sport | Men's [Athletics](/source/Athletics_(sport))}}
{{Medal|Country | {{ENG}} }}
{{Medal|Competition|[IAAF World Cross Country Championships](/source/IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships)}}
{{Medal|Gold| [1979 Limerick](/source/1979_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships) | Team}}
{{Medal|Silver| [1982 Rome](/source/1982_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships) | Team}}
{{Medal|Competition|[Commonwealth Games](/source/Commonwealth_Games)}}
{{Medal|Bronze| [1982 Brisbane](/source/1982_Commonwealth_Games) | 10,000m}}
{{Medal|Competition|[Summer Universiade](/source/Summer_Universiade)}}
{{Medal|Bronze|[1975 Rome](/source/1975_Summer_Universiade)|10,000m}}
}}
'''Julian Norris Goater''' (born 12 January 1953) is a male British former [long-distance runner](/source/long-distance_runner).
== Biography ==
Goater was born in Southampton, England but grew up in [Mill Hill](/source/Mill_Hill), London, and began his running career while attending [The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School](/source/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](/source/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](/source/English_National_Cross_Country_Championships) 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](/source/Crystal_Palace_National_Sports_Centre), London. His best time for the 10,000 m is 27:34.58 which was achieved in [Oslo](/source/Oslo) in 1982 and is still in the UK top 10 of best ever times.
Goater became the [British 10,000 metres champion](/source/List_of_British_champions_in_10%2C000_metres) after winning the British [AAA Championships](/source/AAA_Championships) title at the [1982 AAA Championships](/source/1982_AAA_Championships).[{{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}}][{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/aaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (men) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=12 June 2025}}]
He represented [England](/source/England_at_the_1982_Commonwealth_Games) and won a bronze medal in the 10,000 metres event, at the [1982 Commonwealth Games](/source/1982_Commonwealth_Games) in [Brisbane](/source/Brisbane), Australia.[{{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}}][{{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}}]
Goater took up [triathlon](/source/triathlon) and [duathlon](/source/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](/source/Team_Volcano) team over a number of seasons. Goater achieved a gold medal at the World Duathon Championships (2001) in [Rimini](/source/Rimini), picking up another gold in Australia in 2005. He remains an active coach, athlete and author. He is now living in [Surrey](/source/Surrey) and visits schools around [Bracknell](/source/Bracknell) to give talks to children.[{{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}}]
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
*[http://www.gbrathletics.com/uk/mindex.pdf gbrathletics]
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{{Footer UK NC 10000 Metres Men}}
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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
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