Jeff_Atkinson_(athlete)
Jeff Atkinson (athlete)
American middle-distance runner
Jeffrey Patrick Atkinson (born February 24, 1963) is a male former middle-distance runner from the United States. He has held the outdoor mile record at Stanford University since 1986.[3] He was the fastest American male in the 1500 metres in 1989.[1] He competed at the Summer Olympics in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea, and came in tenth place in the 1500m race. He tried to make a comeback at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, but did not pass the Olympic trials.