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List Of British Champions In 200 Metres
The British 200 metres athletics champions covers three competitions; the current British Athletics Championships which was founded in 2007, the preceding AAA Championships which existed until 2006 and the UK Athletics Championships which existed from 1977 until 1997 and ran concurrently with the AAA Championships. The AAA Championships were open to international athletes but were not considered the National Champion in this list if they won the relevant Championship. Past winners NBA = No British athlete in final nc = not contested + = UK Championships References {{reflist 200 metres The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slightl ... British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Athletics Championships
The British Athletics Championships is the premier national championship in track and field held in the United Kingdom, and are organised by British Athletics. The event has doubled as the main trials meet for international team selection for major events in which Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete, including the Olympic Games, the IAAF World Championships in Athletics and the European Athletics Championships. Only British athletes may formally compete, though in some circumstances British club-affiliated foreign athletes may take part as guests. The event was established in 2007, replacing the AAA Championships as the principal event on the domestic sport of athletics, athletics calendar in the United Kingdom. A previous event, the UK Athletics Championships had nominally been the national championship, but in effect took second billing to the "triple A's". The creation of the British Athletics Championships as the main national championship and selection event, brought t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Murdoch
Robin Murdoch (31 July 1911 – 13 September 1994) was a Scottish athlete who competed in the 1934 British Empire Games The 1934 British Empire Games were the second edition of what is now known as the Commonwealth Games, held in England, from 4–11 August 1934. The host city was London, with the main venue at Wembley Park, although the track cycling events wer .... At the 1934 Empire Games he was a member of the Scottish relay team which won the bronze medal in the 4×110 yards event. In the 220 yards competition he finished fourth and in the 100 yards contest he finished fifth. External linksProfileat ''TOPS in athletics''Robin Murdoch's obituary 1911 births 1994 deaths Scottish male sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 1934 British Empire Games Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Scotland Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Medallists at the 1934 British Empire Games {{Scotland-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Shenton
Brian Shenton (15 March 1927 – 9 May 1987) was a track and field sprinter. He represented Great Britain in the men's 200 metres and men's 4x100 metres relay at two consecutive Summer Olympics (1952 and 1956). Born in Doncaster from a working-class background, he was a member of the Doncaster Plant Works Athletic Club, later having a successful career in the City and reaching the position of Chairman of Noble Lowndes. He died in a car crash soon after retirement. Shenton came to public attention in 1950 with a series of good performances, culminating in a place at the European Championships as a replacement. Described as the "boy from nowhere", he set a new personal best in the semi-finals of 21.6s, in the finals beating off the challenge of Étienne Bally. He won the gold medal at the 1950 European Athletics Championships in Brussels, Belgium in the men's 200 metres in a time of 21.5s as part of the British team that first topped the medal table with a medal count that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Johnson (athlete)
Ann Elaine Johnson (born 28 September 1933) is a British sprinter. She competed in the women's 200 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics. She also represented England in the 220 yards and long jump at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the ..., Canada. References 1933 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games British female sprinters English female sprinters British female long jumpers English female long jumpers Olympic athletes for Great Britain Place of birth missing (living people) Commonwealth Games competitors for England {{UK-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Manley
Dorothy Gladys Manley (later Hall, then Parlett; 29 April 1927 – 31 October 2021) was a British sprinter. She competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics, held in London, in the 100 metres where she won the silver medal with a time of 12.2 seconds. She was the first British woman to win an Olympic sprint medal. She was also a medallist in the 1950 British Empire Games, and the 1950 European Athletics Championships. Early life Manley was born in Manor Park, London, on 29 April 1927. She was initially introduced into athletics by one of her school teachers and worked her way up from the school, to the district and then to running for her county before the Second World War. Contrary to reports, she was not evacuated during the war. In 1942 she competed in an athletics meeting at Ashton playing fields where she ran in the 200 metres for the first time. Athletic career She raced for the Essex Ladies athletics club. Manley was added to a national list of potential Olympians in late 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alastair McCorquodale
Alastair McCorquodale (5 December 1925 – 27 February 2009) was a British athlete and cricketer. McCorquodale was educated at Harrow where he opened the bowling for the 1st XI in the 1948 Eton v Harrow match at Lord's. He represented Britain in Athletics at the 1948 Olympic Games in London. He was denied a bronze medal in the 100m final by a photo finish, but won a silver medal in the 4 × 100 m relay. He never ran again. He also represented the Free Foresters, Marylebone Cricket Club in 1948 and Middlesex in three matches in 1951, as a left-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler. He toured Canada with MCC in 1951–52. He was the seventh oldest living Middlesex first-class cricketer prior to his death. Early life McCorquodale was born in Hillhead, Glasgow City, on 5 December 1925. He spent his childhood growing up in Essex, and was educated at Harrow School. He was in both the football and cricket first XIs, and was in Elmfield House. Athletics career As the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Cheeseman
Sylvia Cheeseman (born 19 May 1929) is an English retired sprinter. Competing in relays, she won two medals at the 1950 British Empire Games and one at the 1952 Olympics. Individually she was eliminated in the 200 m at the 1948 Olympics and in the 1952 Olympics she won her heat but was eliminated in the semi-final. She won the Amateur Athletic Association of England title in this event in 1946–1949 and 1951–1952, placing second in 1950. Early life Cheeseman's mother was a concert pianist, her father was a double bass player and a founding member of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and her sister was an international model. She lived on Derwent Road, in Whitton, London. She attended Spring Grove Grammar School.''Marylebone Mercury'' Saturday 13 September 1947, page 3 Personal life In 1957 she married the Olympic runner John Disley John Ivor Disley CBE (20 November 1928 – 8 February 2016) was a Welsh athlete. He competed mainly in the 3000 metres steeplechase before c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McDonald Bailey
Emmanuel McDonald Bailey (8 December 1920 – 4 December 2013) was a British and Trinidadian athlete, who was born in Williamsville, Trinidad and Tobago. Bailey won a bronze medal in the 1946 Central American and Caribbean Games. He competed for Great Britain in the men's 100 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, where he finished sixth and last in the final, and the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki where he won the bronze medal. He jointly held the 100 m world record at 10.2 seconds between 1951 and 1956 and won the sprint double seven times at the AAA Championships. In the 1948/9 season he worked on fitness and speed with Queen's Park Rangers F.C. Who won their first ever promotion that season. From Football League 3rd Division South to Football League 2nd Division. In 1953 he joined rugby League club Leigh, but he only played in one friendly match for them. in 1977 Bailey was awarded Trinidad and Tobago's Chaconia Medal The Chaconia Medal is the second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Jordan
Winifred Sadie Jeffrey, later Jordan (15 March 1920 – 13 April 2019), was an English athlete who competed at the 1938 British Empire Games, 1946 European Athletics Championships, and 1948 Summer Olympics. She was born in Kings Norton, Birmingham. She left school aged 14 to work at Dunlop, where her father was employed, and where she participated with the athletics club. In the athletics at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, she was a member of the English relay team which won the silver medal in the 220-110-220-110 yards event and the bronze medal in the 110-220-110 yards competition. In the 100 yards contest she was eliminated in the semi-finals. Her athletics career was interrupted by the Second World War, and then she won silver medals in the 100 metres and 200 metres at the 1946 European Athletics Championships in Oslo, while her 4 × 100 metres relay The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Holmes
Cyril Butler Holmes (11 January 1915 – 21 June 1996) was an English athlete who competed for Great Britain in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was also capped three times for the England national rugby union team The England national rugby union team represents England in men's international rugby union. They compete in the annual Six Nations Championship with France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. England have won the championship on 29 occasion ... He was born and died in Bolton. In 1936 he was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the 100 metres event. Holmes was one of Britain's top sprinters in the late 1930s. In 1937 he won the AAA 100y in 9.9 seconds and both sprints at the World University Games. At the 1938 Empire Games he won the gold medal in the 100 yards in 9.7 seconds and 220 yards in 21.2 seconds. He was also a member of the English relay team which won the silver medal in the 4×110 yards competition. In 1939 he won the AAA 220 yards in 21. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Saunders
Dorothy Sylvia Saunders (later Jackson; 22 January 1915 – 12 November 2013) was an English track and field athlete who competed in the 1938 British Empire Games. Saunders was born in Brentford, Middlesex in January 1915. At the 1938 Empire Games she was a member of the English relay team which won the silver medal in the 220-110-220-110 yards event and the bronze medal in the 110-220-110 yards competition. In the 100 yards contest as well as in the 220 yards event she was eliminated in the semi-finals. She also competed in the 1938 European Championships in Athletics held in Vienna and finished fourth in the 100 metre contest and fifth in the 200 metre event. In April 1942, she married Harold F. Jackson in Brentford. Saunders died in Devon in November 2013 at the age of 98. References External links Profileat ''TOPS in athletics'' Profileat ''trackfield.brinkster.net'' British national athletics records as of 1950(Internet Archive The Internet Archive is an America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Chalmers
Leonard Chalmers (formerly Lillian Florence Elizabeth Chalmers; 5 December 1911 – 24 February 1990) was an English athlete who competed in the 1934 British Empire Games. At the 1934 Empire Games he won the bronze medal in the 100 yards event. He also competed in the 1938 European Championships in Athletics held in Vienna and finished sixth in the 200 metre event. Chalmers was also entered into the 4x100 relay at the 1936 Berlin Games but did not compete, as well as becoming a three-time champion at the Women's AAA Championships, winning the 200 meters in 1937 and 1939 and the 400 meters in 1939. He finally raced in the 1939 ISTAF Berlin meeting at Berlin Stadium, only a few weeks before World War II started. Chalmers worked as a machinist in a cardboard box factory before his athletic career, and was the youngest of five children. His eldest sibling died during the Gallipoli Campaign during World War I. Chalmers lived in the Rudmore district of Portsmouth before Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
