Elliot Bunney

Rugby player

Birth name

Elliot John Bunney

Date of birth

(1966-12-11) 11 December 1966 (age 57)

Place of birth

Edinburgh, Scotland

Rugby union career

Amateur team(s)
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1994-	Livingston RFC Heriots RFC		()

Medal record

Men's Athletics

Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
	1988 Seoul	4x100 m relay
European Championships
	1986 Stuttgart	4x100 m relay
European Junior Championships
	1985 Cottbus	100 m
	1985 Cottbus	4x100 m relay
Representing Scotland
Commonwealth Games
	1986 Edinburgh	4x100 m relay

Elliot John Bunney (born 11 December 1966 in Edinburgh, Midlothian) is a Scottish former athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. He competed for Scotland at the 1986, 1990, 1994 and 1998 Commonwealth Games, winning a bronze medal in the sprint relay team competition in 1986. He competed for Great Britain in the 1988 Summer Olympics and won a Silver medal as part of the sprint relay team.

Career

He won the AAA Junior championships in 1984 and 1985.^[1] He was also a Scottish 100-metre champion in 1985, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1992, and 1993. He won two Scottish 60-metre indoor titles in 1992 and 1993. In 1985 he became the first athlete to have won sprint titles in successive weeks at Scottish schools, junior and senior levels.^[2]

Elliot won two Gold medals competing for Great Britain at the 1985 European Athletics Junior Championships in Cottbus (at that time East Germany). He won the 100m (10.38sec - + 0.6) beating Endre Havas of Hungary with John Regis of Great Britain third. He was part of the winning 4 × 100 m relay team.^[3]

He was a AAAs Indoor 60-metre champion in 1987.

At the 1986 Commonwealth Games, competing for Scotland, he was a finalist in the 100 metres and finished 5th. He won a Bronze medal as part of the team that was third in the 4 x 100-metre relay.

He competed for Great Britain in the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea in the 4 x 100-metre relay where he won the silver medal with his teammates John Regis, Mike McFarlane and Linford Christie.

His personal best in the 100 metres was 10.20 seconds.^[4]

Elliot was coached throughout his career by Bob Inglis.^[3]

In 1994, he retired from top-level athletic competition aged 27 years old and played rugby for Scottish fourth division side Livingston RFC.^[5] and Heriots RFC. He also made a sevens appearance, playing for a Scottish select side at the Selkirk sevens.^[4]

References

^ "AAA Junior championships (men)". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
^ Gillon, Doug (24 June 1985). "Linsey races back in style and qualifies for Japan". Glasgow Herald. p. 15. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
^ ^a ^b "It's another gold medal for Bunney". The Herald. Glasgow. 26 August 1985. p. 13. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Bunney bowing out with a relay regret". The Herald. 29 August 1998. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
^ "Bunney turns to rugby on a wing and a prayer". 29 October 1994. Retrieved 3 October 2016.

Elliot Bunney at the Gazetteer for Scotland
Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Elliot Bunney". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 14 October 2012.