Steve Brimacombe

Stephen "Steve" Brimacombe ( born May 7, 1971 in Melbourne, Australia ) is a former Australian sprinter.

In 1994 he took part in Victoria to the Commonwealth Games. There he reached the semifinals in the 200 -meter run and finished seventh in the 100 -meter run. The greatest success of his career celebrated in the following season at the World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg in 1995. Together with Paul Henderson, Tim Jackson and Damien Marsh, he won in 38.50 s the silver medal in the 4 x 100 - meter relay. The day before, the Australian quartet had set up in the semifinals with a time of 38.17 s a Ozeanienrekord. Brimacombe joined in Gothenburg also about 200 m and reached the semi-finals here.

Also at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, he reached the semifinals in the 200 -meter run. With the season he missed the finals because of a faulty. At the World Athletics Championships in Athens in 1997, he retired, however, in both competitions in the first round. In 1998 he won the bronze medal in the 4 x 100 meters relay at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. About 200 meters he ran up in the semifinals.

Another bronze medal in the relay took Brimacombe at the IAAF 2001 World Championships in Edmonton. The Australian quartet Matt Shirvington, Paul Di Bella, Steve Brimacombe and Adam Basil had indeed reached with a time of 38.83 s the only goal in fourth place. But by the subsequent disqualification of the U.S. season because of a doping offense their runner Tim Montgomery, the Australians moved up in the rankings by one place.

In addition, Brimacombe was four times Australian champion, twice in the 200 -meter run (1994-1995 ) and once each over 100 yards (1992 ) and over 100 m ( 1997).

Steve Brimacombe had a competition weight of 75 kg at a height of 1.80 m.

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