About Jamie Henderson
Born 1969. Jamie Henderson is an athletics competitor and sprinter.
Jamie Alexander Henderson (born 28 March 1969) is a Scottish former athlete who competed as a sprinter.
A former Edinburgh Academy pupil, Henderson was coached by Bob Inglis. He won the UK Athletics Championships 100 metres title in 1986 and became the youngest ever champion for that event. As a teenager he had further success with a third-place finish in the 100 metres at the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athens and was 100 metres champion at the 1987 European Junior Championships, running a personal best of 10.21 seconds for the latter.
Henderson represented Scotland in three editions of the Commonwealth Games, debuting in the 1986 Edinburgh games, where he was a 100 metres finalist and claimed a bronze with the team.
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Jamie Henderson was born on 28 March 1969.
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Jamie Henderson is an athletics competitor and sprinter.
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