Steve Brimacombe
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Steve Brimacombe is an Australia
n athletics coach and former runner.
Under the tutelage of renowned Scottish coach Jim Bradley (athletics coach)
, Brimacombe won the 1991 Stawell Gift
. A fortnight after winning the Australian 200m title, Brimacombe finished 2nd in the 1994 Stawell Gift off scratch. In July 1994, Brimacombe was a finalist in the Commonwealth Games 200m.
Brimacombe moved to Queensland in October 1994 and competed over 200 metres in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games where he finished 9th overall, just missing the final.
Brimacombe was a three times national 200m champion (1994, 1995, 1997) and won the 100m title in 1997. His personal best for the 100m was 10.28 secs and for the 200m was 20.30 secs.
He returned to Victoria in 2001 and continued to compete until he retired in 2004. Brimacombe became only the fourth Stawell Gift winner in history to have later coached a winner, when his charge Adrian Mott stormed home in 2006.
Steve's mother Dianne has also competed in Victorian Athletics in longer distance events and has been very competitive in her age group with Coburg Harriers.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n athletics coach and former runner.
Under the tutelage of renowned Scottish coach Jim Bradley (athletics coach)
Jim Bradley (athletics coach)
Jim Bradley is a professional athletics coach, renowned for his innovative use of speedball for an athlete's general preparation. Bradley is the only coach to have trained multiple winners of the New Year Sprint and the Stawell Gift .- Early life :Jim Bradley was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in...
, Brimacombe won the 1991 Stawell Gift
Stawell Gift
The Stawell Gift is Australia's oldest and richest short distance running race. It is run over every Easter weekend by the Stawell Athletic Club, with the main race finals on the holiday Monday, at Central Park, Stawell in the Grampian Mountains district of western Victoria.The race is run on grass...
. A fortnight after winning the Australian 200m title, Brimacombe finished 2nd in the 1994 Stawell Gift off scratch. In July 1994, Brimacombe was a finalist in the Commonwealth Games 200m.
Brimacombe moved to Queensland in October 1994 and competed over 200 metres in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games where he finished 9th overall, just missing the final.
Brimacombe was a three times national 200m champion (1994, 1995, 1997) and won the 100m title in 1997. His personal best for the 100m was 10.28 secs and for the 200m was 20.30 secs.
He returned to Victoria in 2001 and continued to compete until he retired in 2004. Brimacombe became only the fourth Stawell Gift winner in history to have later coached a winner, when his charge Adrian Mott stormed home in 2006.
Steve's mother Dianne has also competed in Victorian Athletics in longer distance events and has been very competitive in her age group with Coburg Harriers.