Steve Slattery

Steve Slattery
Personal information
Nationality	American
Born	August 14, 1980 (age 44); Flanders, New Jersey
Sport
Sport	Track
Event(s)	1500 meters, 3000 meters, 5000 meters, 3000 meters steeplechase
College team	Colorado
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	Mile: 3:56.75 ; 3000m: 7:50.76 ; 2-mile: 8:37.95 ; 5000m: 13:36.03

Steve Slattery (born August 14, 1980) is an American track and field athlete who is a steeplechase specialist. He has a personal record 8:15.69 minutes for the event and was the 2003 American outdoor champion. He has represented the United States at the World Championships in Athletics on two occasions (2003, 2005) and has also competed at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships and the 2006 IAAF World Cup.

Running career

High school

Raised in the Flanders section of Mount Olive Township, New Jersey, he attended Mount Olive High School and established himself as a distance runner while there, receiving four high school All-America honors before graduating in 1998.^[2] He made his international debut that year at the 1998 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, finishing 40th in the junior race.

Collegiate

He went on to attend the University of Colorado from 1998 to 2002. During that time he was the 2001 Big 12 Conference champion in the steeplechase and came tenth at the 2001 World Student Games. He was the runner-up at the NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship as well as the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 2002. While at the University of Colorado he met his future wife, Sara Gorton, another distance runner.^[3]

Professional

After college he signed a contract with Nike and won his first national title at the 2003 USA Outdoor Championships.^[4] Slattery made his senior international debut at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics and ran a personal record time of 8:22.32 minutes in the heats.^[5] He failed to build on this success the following year and missed a spot on the Olympic team after finishing fifth at the United States Olympic Trials. In 2005 he set a personal record time of 8:17.87 minutes at the FBK Games, the fastest by an American that year. A third-place finish at the USA Outdoors brought him his second world championship appearance,^[3] although he was again eliminated in the heats at the 2005 World Championships.^[3] In 2006 he represented the United States in the 3000 meters flat at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres and in the steeplechase at the 2006 IAAF World Cup. He was the runner-up at the usatf national championships that year and his season's best time of 8:22.70 minutes was second in the American rankings.^[3]

Slattery set a new best of 8:15.69 minutes at the 2007 Memorial Van Damme meeting (second fastest American that year) and was third in the steeplechase at the Prefontaine Classic. Despite this form, he failed to finish at the USA Outdoor Championships.^[3] As one of the fastest performers on the circuit, he was invited to the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart, where he finished eighth.^[5] He came second at the 2008 Reebok Grand Prix in New York City with a run of 8:28.21 minutes, but failed to finish at the Olympic Trials final. After a low-key 2009, he returned to form on the 2010 IAAF Diamond League circuit and came third at the 2010 USA Outdoor Nationals. In 2011 he ran a season's best of 8:28.52 minutes at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix, but pulled out of the steeplechase heats at the national championships.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d World Athletics. "Profile of Steve SLATTERY".
^ Lambert, Jim. "Steve Slattery, a NJ distance running legend, is headed into the Mount Olive Hall of Fame", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, September 24, 2012. Accessed November 6, 2017. "I haven't covered many runners blessed with the kind of talent or who ran with the kind of heart that Steve Slattery showed during his days at Mount Olive High.... After graduating from Mount Olive in 1998, Slattery took that same drive and passion to Colorado with him where he flourished under Jersey native Mark Wetmore, especially in the grueling steeplechase."
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Steve Slattery. USATF. Retrieved on 2012-05-28.
^ Outdoor Track & Field Champions Men's 3,000 m Steeplechase^{[permanent dead link]}. USATF. Retrieved on 2012-05-28.
^ ^a ^b ^c Slattery Steve. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-05-28.

External links

Steve Slattery at World Athletics

[World_Athletics-1] World Athletics. "Profile of Steve SLATTERY".

[2] Lambert, Jim. "Steve Slattery, a NJ distance running legend, is headed into the Mount Olive Hall of Fame", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, September 24, 2012. Accessed November 6, 2017. "I haven't covered many runners blessed with the kind of talent or who ran with the kind of heart that Steve Slattery showed during his days at Mount Olive High.... After graduating from Mount Olive in 1998, Slattery took that same drive and passion to Colorado with him where he flourished under Jersey native Mark Wetmore, especially in the grueling steeplechase."

[USATFBio-3] Steve Slattery. USATF. Retrieved on 2012-05-28.

[4] Outdoor Track & Field Champions Men's 3,000 m Steeplechase^{[permanent dead link]}. USATF. Retrieved on 2012-05-28.

[IAAFBio-5] Slattery Steve. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-05-28.

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v t e US National Championship winners in men's steeplechase
1889–1979 Amateur Athletic Union	1889: Alfred George (GBR) 1890: William Young 1891–92: Ernie Hjertberg (SWE) 1893–94: George Orton (CAN) 1895: not held 1896–99: George Orton (CAN) 1900: Alexander Grant 1901: George Orton (CAN) 1902: Arthur Newton 1903: not held 1904: John Daly (IRL) 1905: Harvey Cohn 1906–15: not held 1916: Michael Devaney 1917–18: not held 1919: Michael Devaney 1920: Patrick Flynn 1921–22: Michael Devaney 1923: Ville Ritola (FIN) 1924: Marvin Rick 1925: Russell Payne 1926–27: Ville Ritola (FIN) 1928: William Spencer 1929: David Abbott 1930–33: Joe McCluskey 1934: Harold Manning 1935: Joe McCluskey 1936: Harold Manning 1937: Floyd Lochner 1938–40: Joe McCluskey 1941: Forrest Efaw 1942: George DeGeorge 1943: Joe McCluskey 1944: Forrest Efaw 1945: James Wisner 1946: James Rafferty 1947–48: Forrest Efaw 1949: Curt Stone 1950: Warren Druetzler 1951: Horace Ashenfelter 1952: Robert McMullen 1953: Horace Ashenfelter 1954: Bill Ashenfelter 1955: Ken Reiser 1956: Horace Ashenfelter 1957–58: Deacon Jones 1959–60: Phil Coleman 1961: Deacon Jones 1962: George Young 1963: Pat Traynor 1964: Jeff Fishback 1965: George Young 1966–67: Pat Traynor 1968: George Young 1969: Mike Manley 1970: Bill Reilly 1971: Sid Sink 1972: Jim Dare 1973: Doug Brown 1974: Jim Johnson 1975–76: Randy Smith 1977: James Munyala (KEN) * George Malley 1978–79: Henry Marsh
1980–1992 The Athletics Congress	1980: Doug Brown 1981–87: Henry Marsh 1988–90: Brian Diemer 1991: Mark Croghan 1992: Brian Diemer
1993–present USA Track & Field	1993: Marc Davis 1994–97: Mark Croghan 1998–2000: Pascal Dobert 2001: Tom Chorny 2002: Anthony Famiglietti 2003: Steve Slattery 2004–06: Daniel Lincoln 2007: Joshua McAdams 2008: Anthony Famiglietti 2009: Joshua McAdams 2010: Daniel Huling 2011: Billy Nelson 2012–18: Evan Jager 2019: Hillary Bor 2021^{2020 OT}: Hillary Bor 2022: Hillary Bor 2023: Kenneth Rooks 2024: Kenneth Rooks
Notes	2 mile steeplechase in 1889–1919, 1921–27, 1929–31, 1953–55 and 1957; 3000 m steeplechase otherwise. The 1920, 1928, 1932, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 championships incorporated the Olympic Trials, otherwise held as a discrete event. 2020 OT: The 2020 Olympic Trials were delayed and held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.