{{short description|British middle-distance runner}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=May 2015}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Neil Speaight | image = | caption = | nationality = British (English) | sport = Athletics | event = middle-distance | club = Belgrave Harriers | birth_date = 9 September 1978 | birth_place = Lincoln, England | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | medaltemplates= }}
'''Neil Anthony Speaight''' (born 9 September 1978) is a British former middle-distance runner.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Athlete Profile|url=https://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=1530|access-date=2021-05-13|website=thepowerof10.info}}</ref>
== Biography == Speaight had a three year unbeaten sequence in the Southern Athletics league from 1996 to 1999.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003740/19990610/060/0060 |title=Gloom lightens as C and C ease fears |work=Cambridge Daily News |date=10 June 1999 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=12 July 2025}}</ref>
He became the British 800 metres champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 2001 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 July 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/aaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (men) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=12 July 2025}}</ref>
== Achievements == {| {{AchievementTable|Event=yes}} |- !colspan="6"|Representing the {{GBR}} |- |1999 |European U23 Championships |Gothenburg, Sweden |7th (h) |800 m |1:48.42 |- |2009 |European Indoor Championships |Turin, Italy |9th |1500 m |3:51.04 |}
== References == {{Reflist}} *{{World Athletics}} {{British Indoor Athletics Championships men's 1500 metres champions}} {{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Speaight, Neil}} Category:1978 births Category:Living people Category:British men middle-distance runners
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