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Andrew Hart (runner)

British athletics competitor (born 1969)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ4757248 ↗
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Andrew Hart (born 13 September 1969) is an English male former middle-distance runner who specialised in the 800 metres and competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Biography

Hart ran at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics and his personal best time was 1:45.71 minutes, achieved when he placed fifth representing England at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, his most prestigious championship achievement.

At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, he represented Great Britain in the 800 metres event.

At national level, he was the winner of the 800 m at the 1997 British Athletics Championships.

He is currently a physical education teacher at The Crypt School, Gloucester. The career has gone uphill.

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This entry incorporates text from “Andrew Hart (runner)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.