Roger Hackney

Roger Graham Hackney (born 2 September 1957) is a Welsh former long-distance runner who specialised in the 3000 metres steeplechase. He represented Great Britain in three Olympic Games and won a silver medal for Wales at the 1986 Commonwealth Games.

Biography Hackney, who was a member of the Royal Air Force, and trained at Aldershot, Farnham and District AC, specialised in the 3000m steeplechase. Hackney was twice the British 3000 metres steeplechase champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1980 AAA Championships and the 1982 AAA Championships.

He made his Olympics debut as a 22-year old at the 1980 Moscow Games and was seventh in his semi-final, only just missing out on a spot in the final, with the next best time of the competitors that missed out.

At the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki, Hackney came fifth in the final of the steeplechase.

His best performance in the Olympics came at the 1984 Los Angeles Games where he ran the semi-final in 8:20.77 and qualified for the final, in which he finished 10th.

He won a silver medal representing Wales in the steeplechase at the 1986 Commonwealth Games, in a time of 8:25.15, behind Canada's Graeme Fell and ahead of Colin Reitz, another British athlete. The field was weakened by the absence of many African countries, most notably Kenya, which boycotted the competition over the Thatcher government's sporting links with apartheid South Africa. In 1986 he was also eighth at the European Championships.

His personal best time, 8:18.91, is a Welsh record and was set in 1988, while competing in Belgium.

International competitions All results regarding 3000 metres steeplechase unless stated otherwise.