David Steen
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| Dave Steen | |
| Nationality | Canada |
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| PR | Dec - 8415 (1988) |
| Born | November 14, 1959 at New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada |
| Club | Burnaby/University of Toronto Track and Field Club/University of California, Berkeley, USA |
David Lee Steen (1959-) is a retired Canadian decathlete, a three-time member of the Canadian Summer Olympic Games team and the first Canadian to score more than 8,000 points in the decathlon.
He was named after his uncle, David Lorne Steen, a Canadian shot putter and gold medallist at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. His father, Don Steen, was Canadian decathlon champion in 1956.
Career highlights
- Gold medal, Canada Games, 1977
- Four FNA Rowell Trophies as CTFA’s most outstanding athlete, 1981-86
- First Canadian decathlete to surpass 8,000 points, 1982
- Silver medal, Commonwealth Games, 1982
- Gold medal, World University Games, 1983
- Gold medal, Pan-Am Games, 1983
- World Pentathlon record (4,104 points), 1983
- Sarajevo Olympic Games - Eight place, 1984
- Silver medal, Commonwealth Games, 1986
- Seoul Olympic Games - Bronze medal, 1988
Steen won the decathlon gold medal at the 1977 Canada Games, and followed that with by winning gold at the 1979 Pan American Games. Steen was named to the 1980 Canadian Olympic team, but did not compete due to the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal at the 1982 Commonwealth Games and bronze at the 1983 Pan American Games. After a disappointing eighth place finish at the 1984 Summer Olympics, Steen won silver at the 1986 Commonwealth Games and won the bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Steen took gold at the 1985 Pacific Conference Games and, at the 1986 University of Toronto Track Classic, eclipsed Daley Thompson's 1984 world indoor pentathlon record. A silver medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games was followed by a heptathlon gold medal at the Canadian Indoor Track and Field Championships, where Steen won all seven events.
Steen retired from competition following the 1988 Olympics. He now resides in Tecumseh, Ontario and works as a firefighter.
A vocal advocate against drugs in sport, Steen is a spokesperson for the Canada Games and an Ambassador for the Government of Canada's Fair Play Commission.
Honors
Stein was awarded the FNA Rowell Trophy by the Canadian Track and Field Association four times as the outstanding athlete in field events, declared Ontario's Athlete of the Year in 1988. In 1990, Steen was made a Member of the Order of Canada. He has been inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame (1991) and Canada's Sports Hall of Fame (1992).
External links
- IAAF profile for David Steen
- sports-reference.com profile
- Canada's Sports Hall of Fame citation
- Canadian Olympic Committee
- Wikipedia article
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