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	Steve Backley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stephen James ("Steve") Backley (born February 12, 1969) is a former British athlete specialising in the javelin.
		Steve was now heading to Sydney, Australia for the 2000 Summer Olympics in a much improved state of mind in an attempt to win his first gold medal.
		In Steve's final year of competition, where he was hoping to add to his Olympic medal haul, he struggled to find form and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, in a wide-open field, he only made the final as the last non-automatic qualifier.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steve_Backley (1231 words)

	Steve Backley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Backley continued to be plagued by injury during 1993, restricting him to two competitions.
		Backley made a successful return in 1994, and although he did not achieve the distances of his main rivals, he produced a phenomenal record at major championships during the year.
		Backley was also victorious in 1994 at the World Cup in London on 11 September where he won the javelin with a throw of 85.02m.
	www.sporting-heroes.net /athletics-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=1417 (350 words)

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		Steve Backley of Great Britain throws his javelin in the final of the men's javelin throw 23 September, 2000, at the Sydney Olympic Games.
		Backley is the only British athlete to have won medals at three consecutive Olympic Games while Zelezny will be attempting to emulate the feat of American discus champion Al Oerter by winning four straight titles.
		Backley was the IAAF athlete of the year in 1990 and awarded the OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 2002 for his contribution to sport.
	www.abc.net.au /olympics/2004/profiles/stevebackley.htm (614 words)

	ti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Steve was now ready to do the "double", last accomplished by New Zealand's Peter Snell in 1964 at Tokyo.
		Steve went on to improve his World mile record but never gained a championship medal to compare with his Olympic 800m gold.
		In 1989 Steve was ranked 44th in the World over 1500m with 3min 37.40sec his final season in major athletics.
	athletics2005.tripod.com /steve_ovett.htm (931 words)

	Steve Backley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Backley was in very good form prior to Budapest, winning at the AAA Championships (see photo above) in Birmingham on 26 July with a throw of 84.78m, and at the British Grand Prix at Sheffield on 2 August with a throw of 88.80m.
		At Budapest, on 21 August, Backley broke his own European Championships record in the qualifying round with a throw of 87.45m, and in the final held two days later he broke it again when he threw 89.72m to clinch his third consecutive European javelin title.
		Backley turned 30 in February 1999, although there seemed no indication that age was catching up with him when he retained his AAA title at Birmingham on 25 July.
	www.sporting-heroes.net /athletics-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=1419 (343 words)

	CNNSI.com - Athletics - Backley still unbeatable at European Championships - Saturday August 10, 2002 08:21 AM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Backley captured his fourth straight European javelin title late Friday with a massive fifth throw in a field that included all the best throwers in the world.
		Backley, a former world record holder, has been among the top javelin throwers in the world for more than a decade.
		Backley, who often has relied on a big first or second-round efforts, then came up with a heave of 88.54 meters, the best throw in the world this year.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /athletics/news/2002/08/10/backley_epns_ap (447 words)

	Telegraph \| Sport \| Backley bows out as youngsters take over
		It was ironic that Backley finally managed to defeat his nemesis, the Czech Jan Zelezny, in Olympic competition, only for the pair of them to find that their sport has become a young man's game.
		Backley's Olympic record coming into these Games was exemplary: three appearances, three medals: bronze in Barcelona, silver at both Atlanta and Sydney, always with Zelezny ahead.
		Backley had promised before the competition that he would give his all: now was the time.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2004/08/30/soback30.xml (500 words)

	Backley ready to throw down the gauntlet
		Backley has not won once in the six times he has thrown competitively this season, he has not been launching his javelin competitive distances and now people and headlines are starting to notice.
		Yet Backley insists he is "perfectly on course for what is required to win the World Championships" and he is so at home with that belief that he says that anyone who doubts him is "fickle".
		Backley suggests the same and he talks about a "surge of form that is coming at pace".
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/07/25/soback25.html (676 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Backley settles for silver
		Steve Backley seized Britain's first medal in the Olympic Stadium today by winning silver in a thrilling javelin competition.
		Backley snatched the lead in a thrilling competition with a second-round effort of 80.85m but Zelezny responded in the next round with a massive effort of 90.17m to take the gold.
		Backley's medal chances looked slim as he entered the competition ranked only seventh on the world lists after an indifferent season by his high standards.
	www.guardian.co.uk /sydney/story/0,7369,372257,00.html (210 words)

	Guardian \| Backley is denied
		Steve Backley's best chance of winning an Olympic gold medal might be Jan Zelezny's wife.
		Backley was once again forced to settle for the silver medal.
		Backley has been just as dogged by injury as Zelezny in recent years and his medal chances had looked slim as he entered the competition ranked only seventh on the world list after an indifferent season by his high standards.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4067449-105268,00.html (697 words)

	STEVE BACKLEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The picture of Steve holding the England flag was taken at the Commonweath Championships, where he won his Silver medal, whilst the next one was when he won his Gold from the European Championships both in 2002 and within a week of each other.
		Steve Backley loves a good beer and we know his javelin friends are Mick Hill, who also trains with Steve and even his sparring partner, Jan Zeleznyis a good friend of Steve, despite the rivalry on the field.
		Steve Backley served up a chilling warning to his rivals in the European championships with a magnificent gold medal in the javelin last night.
	www.ebcityfarm.org.uk /wendy/stevebackley.html (2924 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Sport \| Athletics \| Backley's moment
		Backley's relationship with Zelezny contrasts starkly with that of Thompson and Hingsen.
		When Backley said after qualifying on Friday, 'I've seen nothing out there that frightens me,' one hopes he may have seen something in training signifying that the Czech is not the force he once was.
		Backley's propensity for analysis and re-analysis, appraisal and reappraisal, has seemed almost limitless, and you wonder that it might be better if he just chucked away the book and got very angry before he threw.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /athletics/comment/0,10083,1032574,00.html (833 words)

	Athens 2004 - Team GB - Athletes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Backley showed promise from a young age, setting a World Junior record of 79.50 in 1988 and then progressed to the Senior World record with 89.58m in Stockholm and then surpassed 90m with a 90.98m at Crystal Palace shortly after switching to the rough-tailed Nemeth javelin.
		Although Backley opened his 2003 campaign with a victory in Sweden and threw 85.69 to win in Gateshead, he was not at his best and disappointingly could only finish ninth in Paris.
		Backley and wife Clare celebrated the birth of their first child, daughter Ellise, on New Year’s Eve 2003.
	www.olympics.org.uk /athens/team_gb_cat.asp?AthleteID=334&AthleteID_Detail=334 (493 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - World Cup 2002 - News
		When Steve Backley picks up the javelin in Madrid on Saturday night, he will be aiming to produce a throw that increases the British team points -- and takes him into World Cup history.
		Backley, the former world record-holder who won his fourth successive title at the European Championships in Munich last month with a season's best throw of 88.54, is on the glory trail again.
		Backley has won the event at the last three World Cups, starting at Barcelona in 1989.
	www.iaaf.org /WCP02/news/Kind=2/newsId=19645.html (680 words)

	Welcome to SFX Sports Group (Europe) Ltd \| Steve Backley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Steve Backley has been at the forefront of world javelin throwing since his first senior title in 1989, which came just four years after winning an English Schools Championship.
		In 2002 Steve Backley became the first British athlete to win four successive European titles as he claimed a dramatic victory in the javelin final in Munich.
		Steve is experienced in all areas of media work and plays a powerful game of golf.
	www.sfxsports.co.uk /biogs_other.asp?BiogID=205 (206 words)

	Javelin photosequence
		Steve maintains his sideways on position with the whole of the left side still in direction of the throw.
		Steve benefits from his left side discipline since premature opening of the left side will mean that the right arm will strike early e.g.: the classical bent arm throwing position.
		Steve attempts to stay as tall as possible and keep the javelin aligned.
	www.brianmac.demon.co.uk /javelin/photo.htm (535 words)

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		Steve Backley in an illustrious athletics career highlighted by three consecutive European titles, three World records - rough tailed model included - two World silvers and an Olympic bronze in 1992 and silver in 1996, has always personified the ultimate in confidence and self belief.
		Backley is an optimist and it is a positive outlook born from the knowledge that whether fit or not, he is one of the world’s greatest competitors.
		Strangely enough Steve seems to be as confident about the first question as he is about the second and given the obvious attachment between this sporting couple, maybe this really could be Backley’s Olympic year after all!
	home.clara.net /nurmi/BackleyAW.txt (1415 words)

	Gebrselassie Switching to Marathon
		British javelin thrower Steve Backley, a three-time Olympic medalist and former world-record holder, said Thursday he will retire after the Athens Games.
		He set the world record three times, with throws of 89.58 meters and 90.98m in 1990 and 91.46m in 1992 while his personal best this season is 81.25m.
		Backley made the announcement on the eve of Friday's Crystal Palace meet in London, where he will be making his final British appearance.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2004/08/06-08-04/Gebrselassie.htm (301 words)

	Sport Development Centre - Loughborough Univeristy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Loughborough Graduate Steve Backley only just managed to gain a place in Saturday's javelin final despite missing the automatic qualifying mark of 81m.
		Backley, 35, then had to hope less than seven athletes in the second pool went over 81m or beat his best effort.
		Latvia's Erik Rags then threw 80.84m to overtake Backley as the best of those not automatically through, leaving the Briton clinging onto the 12th and final spot.
	lboro.ac.uk /departments/sses/SDC/newsboard/2004/olymathletics13.htm (199 words)

	Welcome to Steve Backleys personal website
		The CDrom for PAC Training is now available to buy, featuring over 1000 video demonstration exercises by Steve, bundled with the Quintic motion analysis software.
		Steve turned to the javelin after initially starting out in athletics as a cross-country and middle distance runner.
		Get involved in Steves forum, there are no prerequisites to joining, all that we ask is that you sign your posts so that Steve can respond to you directly.
	www.stevebackley.com (291 words)

	News & Star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		OLYMPIC Games-bound javelin star Steve Backley gave Carlisle’s young pretender Lee Doran some tips from the top at the Norwich Union Trials and AAA Championships in Manchester over the weekend.
		Backley, who has won Commonwealth and European gold medals, won the Olympic trials with a throw of 81.25.
		Doran said: “Steve told me he thinks I’m a good talent and he wished me luck for the rest of the season.
	www.newsandstar.co.uk /sport/viewarticle.aspx?id=114884 (293 words)

	MTC UK Ltd :: Sport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After 7 Gold medals, a world record, two Olympic silver medals and one bronze, Steve Backley finally hung up his javelin at the Olympic Games in Athens, showing he is still one of the world’s best by placing 4th in the final...
		Following his retirement after the Athens Olympics in 2004 Steve is now concentrating heavily on his corporate speaking career.
		With a background in Sports Psychology Steve has a wealth of knowledge to impart and a long and successful career to back up his theories....
	www.mtc-uk.com /sport_clientpage.asp?mtc_client_id=2 (86 words)

	Athletics Weekly
		Steve Backley is one of the exceptions to the rule and last Saturday he demonstrated it with a dawn ’til dusk display at Loughborough University.
		When journalists exchange gossip about the good, the bad and the ugly in the world of athletics, Backley is very often described as the ultimate professional or role model.
		From the smallest of interviews to the finalround throw in an Olympic final, Backley gives it his all.
	www.athletics-weekly.com /back-issues/2006/61-10-6.htm (377 words)

	Steve Backley - Review - Steve BACKLEY
		Backley is a seasoned pro and despite his age he has still a few years ahead of him.
		Steve usually does his biggest throw early on so it is very important for him to get the best possible start.
		Although he hasn't troubled the 90 metre mark recently he is certainly capable of throwing the distance.
	www.ciao.co.uk /Steve_Backley__Review_47356 (212 words)

	Limericks Live 95FM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Javelin ace Steve Backley is planning to quit athletics after next year`s Olympic Games in Athens.
		Backley, winner of a fourth successive European Championships title last summer, feels it will be time to bring down the curtain on his career.
		Backley told Athletics Weekly: ``As far as I`m concerned there is this year`s World Championships in Paris and next year`s Olympics in Athens and I don`t envisage carrying on after them.
	www.95fm.ie /newsroom/indepth.asp?id=10826&pt=s (159 words)

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