800m in Seville (ranking him No. 1 in the world for 1990, and making him the third fastest Briton of all time over the distance). This made him the favourite to win both middle distance gold medals at the 1990 European Championships in Split. However, due to injury problems he only entered for the 1500m and was tripped in the semi-final. After an appeal by the British team he was reinstated (against his own wishes and those of some other athletes), and went on to finish fourth in the final. A year later, he defeated the European champion Jens-Peter Herold in the 1500m race at the European Cup in Frankfurt. He also won the Fifth Avenue Mile in 1987, 1989 and 1990, the latter in 3:47.83 min. After retiring from competition running in 1992, Elliott became a coach and race organiser. He joined Newcastle-based sports marketing agency Nova International, where he was Director of Running. In 2004 he became the Athlete Services Manager for Yorkshire at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. Personal bests References UK Athletics Hall of Fame UKA Young Athletes League Peter Elliott: Rotherham Harriers & AC Roll of Honour Power of 10 Profile: Peter Elliott 1962 births Living people People from Rawmarsh English male middle-distance runners Olympic athletes of Great Britain Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Athletes (track and field) at the 1986 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Commonwealth Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain World Athletics Championships medalists Athletes from Yorkshire Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field) Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games