Bill Burke (athlete)

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Bill Burke (born October 15, 1969 in San Antonio, Texas) is a retired male middle distance runner from the United States, who competed in the 1980s and the early 1990s for his native country. He set his personal best in the men's 1,500 metres event (3:35.74) on 1993-08-01 at a meet in Cologne.

He was later married and had three children, and now lives in Northern Virginia.

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v t e US National Championship winners in Men's 1500 m or Mile

1876-1878 New York Athletic Club	1876^M: Harold Lambe 1877^M: Richard Morgan 1878^M: Thomas Smith

1879-1888 NAAAA	1879^M: Henry Pellatt 1880-83^M: Harry Fredericks 1884^M: Percy Madeira 1885^M: George Gilbert 1886-87^M: Edward Carter 1888^M^{Note 1}: Thomas Conneff

1888-1979 Amateur Athletic Union	1888^M^{Note 1}: G.M. Gibbs 1889-90^M: Albert George 1891^M: Thomas Conneff 1892-96^M: George Orton 1897-98^M: John Cregan 1899^M: Alex Grant 1900^M: George Orton 1901-03^M: Alex Grant 1904^M: David Munson 1905^M: James Lightbody 1906^M: Albert Rodgers 1907^M: James Sullivan 1908^M: Herbert Trube 1909^M: Joe Ballard 1910^M: Joe Monument 1911-12^M: Abel Kiviat 1913^M: Norman Taber 1914^M: Abel Kiviat 1915^M: Joie Ray 1916^M: Ivan Meyers 1917-23^M ^OT: Joie Ray 1924-25^M: Ray Buker 1926^M: Lloyd Hahn 1927M-28^OT: Ray Conger 1929^M: Leo Lermond 1930^M: Ray Conger 1931^M: Leo Lermond 1932^OT: Norwood Hallowell 1933: Glenn Cunningham 1934: Bill Bonthron 1935-38: Glenn Cunningham 1939: Blaine Rideout 1940: Walter Mehl 1941: Les MacMitchell 1942-43: Gil Dodds 1944: Bill Hulse 1945: Roland Sink 1946: Lennart Strand-Les MacMitchell 1947: Gerry Karver 1948: Gil Dodds 1949-50: John Twomey 1951: Len Truex 1952-53^M: Wes Santee 1954^M: Fred Dwyer 1955^M: Wes Santee 1956: Jerome Walters-Ed Moran 1957^M: Merv Lincoln-Bob Seaman 1958^M: Herb Elliott 1959: Dyrol Burleson 1960: Jim Grelle 1961^M: Dyrol Burleson 1962^M: Jim Beatty 1963^M: Dyrol Burleson 1964: Tom O'Hara 1965-67^M: Jim Ryun 1968: John Mason 1969^M: Marty Liquori 1970^M: Howell Michael 1971^M: Marty Liquori 1972: Jerome Howe 1973^M: Len Hilton 1974: Rod Dixon-Tom Byers 1975: Len Hilton 1976: Eamonn Coghlan 1977-79: Steve Scott

1980-1992 The Athletics Congress	1980: Steve Lacy 1981: Sydney Maree 1982-83: Steve Scott 1984-85: Jim Spivey 1986: Steve Scott 1987: Jim Spivey 1988: Mark Deady 1989: Terrence Herrington 1990: Joe Falcon 1991: Terrence Herrington

1992 onwards USA Track & Field	1992^OT: Jim Spivey 1993: Bill Burke 1994: Terrence Herrington 1995-96^OT: Paul McMullen 1997: Seneca Lassiter 1998: Jamey Harris 1999: Steve Holman 2000^OT: Gabe Jennings 2001: Andy Downin 2002: Seneca Lassiter 2003: Jason Lunn 2004-05: Alan Webb 2006: Bernard Lagat 2007: Alan Webb 2008: Bernard Lagat 2009-10: Lopez Lomong 2011: Matthew Centrowitz

Notes	Note 1: In 1888 both the NAAAA and the AAU held championships OT: The 1920, 1928, 1932, 1992, 1996 & 2000 championships incorporated the Olympic Trials, otherwise held as a discrete event. "M": Where this follows the year it denotes that the race was run over a mile rather than 1500 m

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Name	Burke, Bill
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Short description	American distance runner
Date of birth	October 15, 1969
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