{{short description|British middle-distance runner}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use British English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Tony Staynings | image = | caption = | nationality = British (English) | sport = Middle-distance running | event = Steeplechase | club = Bristol & West AC | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|7|21|df=yes}} | birth_place = Hanover, West Germany | death_date = | death_place = | height =169 cm | weight =57 kg }}
'''Anthony Robert Staynings''' (born 21 July 1953) is a British male retired middle-distance runner who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics.<ref name="SportsRef">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/st/tony-staynings-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417191003/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/st/tony-staynings-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Tony Staynings Olympic Results |access-date=24 November 2017}}</ref>
== Biography == Staynings twice became the British 3000 metres steeplechase champion after winning the British AAA Championships titles at the 1975 AAA Championships<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002137/19750803/288/0033 |title=Stewart Mystery |work=Sunday Mirror |date=3 August 1975 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=31 May 2025}}</ref> and the 1976 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=30 May 2025}}</ref>
At the 1976 Olympics Games in Montreal, he represented Great Britain in the 3000 metres steeplechase.<ref name=oly>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69508 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=30 May 2025}}</ref>
Staynings was an All-American runner for the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers track and field team, finishing runner-up in the 3000 metres at the 1977 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships.<ref name="3000 meters 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=10 |title=3000 meters at the NCAA Division I Men's Indoor Track and Field Championships |website=USTFCCCA |access-date=28 December 2024}}</ref>
Staynings finished runner-up behind Dennis Coates in successive years at the AAA Championships in 1977 and 1978<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/aaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (men) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=31 May 2025}}</ref> and shortly afterwards represented England in the 3,000 metres steeplechase event, at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/edmonton-1978/athletes|title=1978 Athletes|website=Team England}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/37194|title=Athletes and results|website=Commonwealth Games Federation}}</ref> He was also the winner of the 1977 UK Athletics Championships and 1980 UK Athletics Championships titles.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/AAASteeple.htm|title=AAA and National Championships Medallists – Steeplechase|website=NUTS}}</ref>
He appeared at his second Olympic Games at the 1980 Olympics Games in Moscow, representing Great Britain in the steeplechase again.<ref name=oly/>
== References == {{Reflist}}
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