The Olympic is a greyhound racing competition held annually at
Brighton & Hove Greyhound Stadium
Brighton & Hove Greyhound Stadium is a greyhound racing track located in the Hove Park area of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex. The stadium also has a restaurant and a number of bars and is owned by the Gala Coral Group and race meeti ...
.
It was inaugurated in 1947 at
Wandsworth Stadium
Wandsworth Stadium was a greyhound racing stadium in Wandsworth.
Origins
The stadium was constructed on an area of unused land south of the Wandsworth reservoir between Garratt Lane (formerly South Street) and Buckhold Road. Just to the sou ...
. Following the closure of Wandsworth in June 1966 the competition switched to
Charlton Stadium
Charlton Stadium was a greyhound racing stadium in Charlton, London.
Origins
An amusement contractor (someone that had dealings with circus acts) called Thomas Murphy built Charlton Stadium south of the Thames on the Woolwich Road, just east ...
which itself closed in September 1971. After an eight year gap the event was resurrected by Hove in 1979 and has remained there since.
Past winners
Venues
*1947–1965 (Wandsworth 600 yards)
*1966–1971 (Charlton 600 yards)
*1979–present (Hove 515 metres)
Sponsors
*1989–1991 (
Phoenix Brewery)
*1994–2006 (
Courage Brewery
Courage Brewery was an English brewery, founded by John Courage in 1787 in London, England.
History
Courage & Co Ltd was started by John Courage at the Anchor Brewhouse in Horsleydown, Bermondsey in 1787. He was a Scottish shipping agent of Fr ...
)
*2007–2007 (Stadium Bookmakers)
*2008–2008 (Emily Wood Memorial)
*2009–present (
Coral
Corals are marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically form compact colonies of many identical individual polyps. Coral species include the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and sec ...
)
Winning trainers
*Brian Clemenson 8
*Derek Knight 5
*Jack Harvey 4
References
{{UK & Irish greyhound competitions
Greyhound racing competitions in the United Kingdom
Sport in Brighton and Hove
Sport in the Royal Borough of Greenwich
Sport in the London Borough of Wandsworth
Recurring sporting events established in 1947