Jamie Henderson (sprinter)
Scottish athlete (born 1969)
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Jamie Alexander Henderson (born 28 March 1969) is a Scottish former athlete who competed as a sprinter.[1]
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| Born | Jamie Alexander Henderson 28 March 1969 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Sprinting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A former Edinburgh Academy pupil, Henderson was coached by Bob Inglis.[2] He won the UK Athletics Championships 100 metres title in 1986 and became the youngest ever champion for that event.[3] 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.[4]
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 4×100 m relay team.[5]