Category: Athlete

Inducted: Friday, December 2, 2022

Place of Birth: St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Jeff Collingwood has enjoyed a tremendous athletic career in the province for many years, from the late 1970s into the 1990s and beyond.

In international competition, he competed twice in the highly acclaimed Tom Black Classic Track and Field Races in Knoxville, Tennessee, and has run the 3000 m steeplechase in an international meet in Burnaby, BC. He was also a member of the winning team in the Detroit Marathon, where he posted a respectable time of 2:54:29.

Recently, from 2016 to 2019, while working in Doha, Qatar, Jeff competed in and finished in respectable times in numerous road races.

He has competed in numerous national competitions including both Junior and Senior Track and Field, both indoors and outdoors. He was the winner of a bronze medal in steeplechase in the Senior Championships in Calgary, Alberta in 1982.

Jeff has also been a member of the Memorial University Cross-Country and Track Teams, during which time he competed in several national championships, and was a member of the 4 x 8000 m relay team in the national championships in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

Jeff has competed in numerous provincial and local championships, road races, cross country, and track. In the 1980 historic Tely 10 race, he recorded his fastest time of 52:03 for a fifth-place finish. He has continued to participate in numerous road races in the late 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.

Apart from his running and racing ability, Jeff was the founder and first president of the Athletics Northeast Running Club.

He is a past NLAA Board of Directors member and was a member of the Organizing Committee and co-MC for the Canadian Cross-Country Championships in St. John’s in 2014.