Wilfred Henry Charles Paish

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(29 July 1932 – 29 January 2010) was a British

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. He helped train athletes such as

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champion

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, Mick Hill and Peter Elliott. Paish was chief coach for South Africa at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Personal and family life

Paish married Margaret L. Norman in 1957 and they had two daughters Alison and Joanne. In 1999 his youngest daughter Joanne had his twin granddaughters Samantha and Kayleigh. His hobby was philately, and in the 1980s he was a well-known figure, as a part-time stamp dealer, at stamp fairs in the West Yorkshire area. Paish was appointed a

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(MBE) in the

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for services to sport. He died after a long illness at the age of 77 on 29 January 2010.Paish passes away after long illness
''IAAF.org'' In 2012 Paish was inducted into the

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References

1932 births 2010 deaths English athletics coaches Members of the Order of the British Empire {{UK-athletics-bio-stub