{{Short description|British sports commentator and former 110m hurdler}} {{distinguish|text=cricketer Stewart Storey}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use British English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = | name = Stuart Storey | nationality = British (English) | sport = Athletics | event = hurdles | club = Birchfield Harriers | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|9|16|df=y}} | birth_place = Louth, Lincolnshire, England | death_date = | death_place = | height =183 cm | weight =75 kg }}
'''Stuart Ellis Storey''' (born 16 September 1942) is a British sports commentator and former 110 metres hurdler who competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics.<ref name="SportsRef">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/st/stuart-storey-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418041509/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/st/stuart-storey-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Stuart Storey Olympic Results |accessdate=20 September 2017}}</ref>
== Biography == Storey was born in Louth, Lincolnshire. He grew up in Holbeach, later helping to coach local resident Geoff Capes at Holbeach Athletics Club. He was educated at Spalding Grammar School. At Loughborough Training College (became Loughborough College of Education in 1963, then part of the University in 1977) he qualified as a teacher of physical education and mathematics.
Storey finished third behind Alan Pascoe in the 120 yards hurdles event at the 1968 AAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000729/19680714/220/0021 |title=White City results |work=The People |date=14 July 1968 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=11 May 2025}}</ref> Later that year at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, he represented Great Britain in the 110 metres hurdles.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69516 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=10 May 2025}}</ref>
Storey finished third behind Willem Coetzee in the 110 metres hurdles event at the 1969 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=11 May 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/aaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (men) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=11 May 2025}}</ref> He represented England in the 110 metres hurdles, at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/edinburgh-1970/athletes|title=1970 Athletes|publisher=Team England}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/edinburgh-1970|title=Edinburgh, 1970 Team|publisher=Team England}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/36401|title=Athletes and results|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation}}</ref> He also held the British record at the 200 metres hurdles.
On retiring from the sport, he joined Thames Polytechnic (now part of the University of Greenwich) where he held the post of director of physical education for 16 years until 1989. He also became an athletics broadcaster on the BBC and since 1973 commentated on nine Olympic Games from 1976 to 2008. He was the BBC's regular basketball and squash commentator during the 1970s and 1980s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics2000/bbc_team/856110.stm|title=biography|publisher=BBC}}</ref> He left the BBC after the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
He later worked as a freelance commentator for Nova International for their Great Run series of road races, for IMG Sweden on the world feed of the IAAF Diamond League athletics meetings and for the host broadcasting services for the 2012 Olympic Games in London and 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. He provided commentary at the Sochi winter Olympics for a number of broadcasters. He stopped working as a commentator after the Diamond League meeting in Brussels on 1 September 2017.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
Storey provided commentary for a number of Olympic video games, including Sydney 2000, Salt Lake 2002 and Athens 2004.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
Storey retired from commentating near the end of the 2017, after 44 years of work. An article was published in ''Athletics Weekly'' about his experiences at the time of the announcement of his retirement.<ref>http://www.athleticsweekly.com/interviews/stuart-storey-lifetime-in-athletics-69059</ref> He said that his favourite moment commentating was in 2012 London Olympic games where he was the lead commentator for the track events along with Peter Matthews.
In 2001, he became a part-time commercial manager of Neath RFC, as his son played for the team.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
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