David Fitzsimons

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David Fitzsimons (23 April 1950 – 7 September 2008) was a former Australian Olympic athlete who competed in middle distance events.

A member of the Adelaide University Athletics Club, he represented Australia at two Olympic Games and two Commonwealth Games during his career.

Fitzsimons won eight Australian Championships in Athletics over 5000 metres and 10000 metres including the 5k/10k double on three occasions.^[1]

Career record

During his athletics career, Fitzsimons represented Australia at two Olympic Games, two Commonwealth Games and two World Cups.^[1]

His greatest international achievement was placing third over 5000 metres at the inaugural IAAF World Cup in 1977.^[1]

Personal Bests^[2]

Event	Performance	Place	Date
1500m	3-39.92	Christchurch, New Zealand	31 January 1974
2000m	5-06.6	Edmonton, Canada	2 August 1978
3000m	7-48.74	Goteborg, Sweden	16 July 1978
2 miles	8-28.0	Melbourne, Australia	11 January 1979
5000m	13-17.42	Düsseldorf, Germany	4 September 1977
10000m	28-04.64	London, Great Britain	9 September 1977

v t e Australian National Champions in Men's 5000 m

1930–1965: 3 miles 1966–2008: 5000 metres

1930: George Hyde 1932: Alex Hillhouse 1934: Fred Colman 1936: Jack Sheaves 1937: Walter Weightman 1947: George Campbell 1948–1949: Neville McDonald 1950–1953: Les Perry 1954: Geoff Warren 1955: Dave Stephens 1956: John Landy 1957–1959: Albie Thomas 1960–1962: Dave Power 1963: Trevor Vincent 1964: Bill Baillie (NZL) 1965–1969: Ron Clarke 1970: Tony Manning 1971: Kerry O'Brien 1972: Tony Benson 1973: Tony Williams 1974: David Fitzsimons 1975: Andrew Hill 1976: Graham Crouch 1977–1979: David Fitzsimons 1980–1982: Steve Austin 1983–1984: Zephaniah Ncube (ZIM) 1985: Andrew Lloyd 1986: Malcolm Norwood 1987: Gerard Barrett 1988: Andrew Lloyd 1989: Phil Clode (NZL) 1990: Simon Doyle 1991: Rod Higgins 1992: Andrew Lloyd 1993: Peter O'Donoghue 1994: Julian Paynter 1995: Daniel Komen (KEN) 1996: David Kibet (KEN) 1997: Paul Bitok (KEN) 1998: Shaun Creighton 1999: Benjamin Maiyo (KEN) 2000: Michael Power 2001: James Getanda (KEN) 2002: Stephen Cherono (KEN) 2003: Daniel Komen (KEN) 2004–2008: Craig Mottram 2009: Collis Birmingham

Persondata
Name	Fitzsimons, David
Alternative names
Short description	Australian middle distance runner
Date of birth	23 April 1950
Place of birth
Date of death	7 September 2008
Place of death

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