- Dave Steen
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Dave Steen Personal information Born November 14, 1959 Medal recordMen's athletics Competitor for 
CanadaOlympic Games Bronze 1988 Seoul Decathlon Pan American Games Gold 1983 Caracas Decathlon Universiade Gold 1983 Edmonton Decathlon David Lee Steen, CM (born November 14, 1959, in New Westminster, British Columbia) is a retired Canadian decathlete, a three-time member of the Canadian Summer Olympic Games team and the first Canadian to score more than 8,000 points in the decathlon.
He was named after his uncle, David Lorne Steen, a Canadian shot putter and gold medallist at the 1966 Commonwealth Games. His father, Don Steen, was Canadian decathlon champion in 1956.
Steen won the decathlon gold medal at the 1977 Canada Games. Steen was named to the 1980 Canadian Olympic team, but did not compete due to the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal at the 1982 Commonwealth Games and gold at the 1983 Pan American Games. After a disappointing eighth place finish at the 1984 Summer Olympics, Steen won silver at the 1986 Commonwealth Games and won the bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
In 1990, Steen was made a Member of the Order of Canada. He has been inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame (1991) and Canada's Sports Hall of Fame (1992).
He now resides in Tecumseh, Ontario, with his wife Andrea, who was also a Canadian Olympic athlete. Together they have four children. He works as a firefighter.
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Pan American champions in men's decathlon 1951: Hernán Figueroa (CHI) • 1955: Rafer Johnson (USA) • 1959: Dave Edstrom (USA) • 1963: John David Martin (USA) • 1967: Bill Toomey (USA) • 1971: Rick Wanamaker (USA) • 1975: Bruce Jenner (USA) • 1979: Bobby Coffman (USA) • 1983: Dave Steen (CAN) • 1987: Mike Gonzales (USA) • 1991: Pedro da Silva (BRA) • 1995: Kip Janvrin (USA) • 1999: Chris Huffins (USA) • 2003: Stephen Moore (USA) • 2007: Maurice Smith (JAM) • 2011: Leonel Suárez (CUB)
1930 – 1934: Harry Hart (SAF) • 1938: Louis Fouché (SAF) • 1950: Mataika Tuicakau (FIJ) • 1954: John Savidge (ENG) • 1958: Arthur Rowe (ENG) • 1962: Martyn Lucking (ENG) • 1966 – 1970: Dave Steen (CAN) • 1974 – 1978: Geoff Capes (ENG) • 1982: Bruno Pauletto (CAN) • 1986: Billy Cole (ENG) • 1990: Simon Williams (ENG) • 1994: Matt Simson (ENG) • 1998: Burger Lambrechts (RSA) • 2002: Justin Anlezark (AUS) • 2006: Janus Robberts (RSA) • 2010: Dylan Armstrong (CAN)
Summer Universiade champions in men's decathlon At the first ever Summer Universiade in 1959 the men competed in the pentathlon. 1959 – 1961: Vasili Kuznetsov (URS) • 1963: Manfred Pflugbeil (FRG) • 1965: Bill Toomey (USA) • 1967: Hans-Joachim Walde (FRG) • 1970: Mykola Avilov (URS) • 1973: Ryszard Skowronek (POL) • 1975 – 1979: Sepp Zeilbauer (AUT) • 1981: Aleksandr Shablenko (URS) • 1983: Dave Steen (CAN) • 1985: Mike Ramos (USA) • 1987: Siegfried Wentz (FRG) • 1989: Dave Johnson (USA) • 1991: Steve Fritz (USA) • 1993: Sébastien Levicq (FRA) • 1995: Dezső Szabó (HUN) • 1997: Roman Šebrle (CZE) • 1999 – 2001: Raúl Duany (CUB) • 2003: Romain Barras (FRA) • 2005: Aliaksandr Parkhomenka (BLR) • 2007: Jacob Minah (GER) • 2009: Mikalai Shubianok (BLR) • 2011: Vasiliy Kharlamov (RUS)
Categories:- 1959 births
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- Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
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- Athletes (track and field) at the 1983 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from British Columbia
- Olympic track and field athletes of Canada
- Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
- Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inductees
- Canadian shot putters
- Canadian decathletes
- Members of the Order of Canada
- People from New Westminster
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
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