Name Stewart Faulkner | Role Olympic athlete | |
Stewart St. Ledger Faulkner (born 19 February 1969) is a retired British athlete who competed in the men's long jump. At 1.93 metres tall, he weighed 86 kilograms.
He was born in Northampton, Northamptonshire, to parents of Jamaican-Cuban descent. Although his career was plagued by severe tarsal tunnel syndrome (a trapped nerve in his take off foot), he achieved relative success early in his track life. After winning a silver medal at the European Junior Championships in Birmingham in 1987, he went on to represent Great Britain at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, where he just missed reaching the final. The following year he established himself as No. 6 in the Track and Field News IAAF Long Jump World Merit rankings.
Despite the premature end to his international career, Faulkner was described as an exceptional and precocious talent and still holds national records in the junior indoor and under-23 indoor categories.
Faulkner is a life member of Birchfield Harriers.