{{Short description|British shot putter (1961–2023)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Shaun Pickering | image = | image_size = <!--Only for images narrower than 220 pixels.--> | caption = | nationality = British (Welsh) | birth_date = {{birth date|1961|11|14|df=y}} | birth_place = Griffithstown, Monmouthshire, Wales | death_date = {{death date and age|2023|5|11|1961|11|14|df=y}} | height = 197 cm | weight = 143 kg | sport = Athletics | event = Shot put | club = Haringey AC | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry | {{WAL}} }} {{MedalSport | Men's shot put}} {{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalBronze| 1998 Kuala Lumpur |Shot put}} | show-medals = yes }}
'''Shaun Pickering''' (14 November 1961 – 11 May 2023) was a British shot putter who represented Great Britain at the 1996 Summer Olympics and Wales in the Commonwealth Games.<ref name=oly>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69389 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=22 June 2025}}</ref>
== Biography == Competing for the Stanford Cardinal track and field team, Pickering finished 6th in the weight throw for distance at the 1984 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships and 1985 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships.<ref name="Weight throw at the NCAA Division I Men's Indoor Track and Field Championships">{{cite web |url=https://www.ustfccca.org/records-lists/meet-history-by-event?gender=1&series=3368&event=29 |title=Weight throw at the NCAA Division I Men's Indoor Track and Field Championships |website=USTFCCCA |access-date=28 December 2024}}</ref>
Pickering represented Wales at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur and won a bronze medal. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, he represented Great Britain in the shot put event.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68775 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=30 May 2025}}</ref> He became the British shot put champion after winning the 1997 British Athletics Championships title.<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=21 June 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/aaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (men) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=21 June 2025}}</ref>
Pickering was a member of the Welsh Athletics hall of fame for a career that included winning five Welsh shot put titles, five Welsh discus throw titles, and nine Welsh hammer throw titles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.welshathletics.org/about-us/our-history/hall-of-fame/shaun-pickering.aspx |accessdate=2 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808041304/http://www.welshathletics.org/about-us/our-history/hall-of-fame/shaun-pickering.aspx |archivedate=8 August 2014|title=Shaun Pickering}}</ref> Pickering was the son of Olympian Jean Pickering and Ron Pickering and in 2010 became the heavy throws coach for UK Athletics.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.insidethegames.biz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9662:pickering-takes-over-as-heavy-throws-coach-for-uk-athletics&catid=89:athletics-news&Itemid=119 |title=Pickering takes over as heavy throws coach for UK Athletics |work=insidethegames.biz |date=21 May 2010 |accessdate=25 August 2014 |archive-date=9 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009132249/https://www.insidethegames.biz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9662:pickering-takes-over-as-heavy-throws-coach-for-uk-athletics&catid=89:athletics-news&Itemid=119 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Pickering died on 11 May 2023, at the age of 61.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/shaun-pickering-gentle-and-generous-giant-of-the-athletics-world-dies-aged-61-1039967740/|title=Shaun Pickering, gentle and generous giant of the athletics world, dies aged 61|date=11 May 2023|author=Jason Henderson|website=Athletics Weekly|language=en|access-date=12 May 2023}}</ref>
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