# Neil Speaight

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{{short description|British middle-distance runner}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2015}}
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| name        = Neil Speaight
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| nationality = British (English)
| sport       = [Athletics](/source/Sport_of_athletics)
| event       = middle-distance
| club        = [Belgrave Harriers](/source/Belgrave_Harriers)
| birth_date  = 9 September 1978
| birth_place = [Lincoln](/source/Lincoln%2C_England), England
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'''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](/source/List_of_British_champions_in_800_metres) after winning the British [AAA Championships](/source/AAA_Championships) title at the [2001 AAA Championships](/source/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](/source/1999_European_Athletics_U23_Championships)
|[Gothenburg](/source/Gothenburg), Sweden
|7th (h)
|800 m
|[1:48.42](/source/1999_European_Athletics_U23_Championships_%E2%80%93_Men's_800_metres)
|-
|2009
|[European Indoor Championships](/source/2009_European_Athletics_Indoor_Championships)
|[Turin](/source/Turin), Italy
|9th
|1500 m
|[3:51.04](/source/2009_European_Athletics_Indoor_Championships_%E2%80%93_Men's_1500_metres)
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
*{{World Athletics}}
{{British Indoor Athletics Championships men's 1500 metres champions}}
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Category:1978 births
Category:Living people
Category:British men middle-distance runners

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