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England At The 1974 British Commonwealth Games ...
England competed at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand, from 24 January - 2 February 1974. England finished second in the medal table. Medal table (top three) The athletes that competed are listed below. Athletics Badminton Bowls Boxing Cycling Diving Shooting Swimming Weightlifting Wrestling References {{Commonwealth Games medallists 1974 Nations at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games British Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commonwealth Games England
Commonwealth Games England (CGE) is the national Commonwealth Games Association for England. The company is responsible for supporting and managing the participation of England at the Commonwealth Games, Team England at the Commonwealth Games'. History Commonwealth Games Council for England The Commonwealth Games Council for England (CGCE) was originally responsible for 'Team England' and oversaw each team between the 1930 British Empire Games and 2006 Commonwealth Games, Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games and the England teams at the Commonwealth Youth Games. Membership of the Games Council consisted of representatives from 26 different sports on the Commonwealth Games#List of Commonwealth sports, Commonwealth Games' Sports Programme, supported by a small salaried team. CGCE's president was gold medallist Sir Christopher Chataway, the first winner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, BBC's Sports Personality of the Year award and a teammate of Sir Roger Bannister. Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Chipchase
Ian Alan Chipchase (born 26 February 1952) is an English former track and field athlete who competed in the hammer throw. He was the gold medallist in the event at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games with a games' record performance. His career best was , set in 1974. He also represented England at the 1978 Commonwealth Games and Great Britain at the 1974 European Athletics Championships. Biography Chipchase was born in Hebburn, County Durham, in the north of England. He rose to prominence at national level as a junior in 1969 when he won the English Schools Championships, AAA Junior Championships and the British Schools international match. He retained all of those titles for following year. His international championship debut came at the 1970 European Athletics Junior Championships, where he placed eighth with a mark of . His first senior hammer throw title at the North of England Athletics Championships was achieved while he was still a teenager in 1970. He would go on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Edward Hearn
Raymond is a male given name of Germanic origin. It was borrowed into English from French (older French spellings were Reimund and Raimund, whereas the modern English and French spellings are identical). It originated as the Germanic ᚱᚨᚷᛁᚾᛗᚢᚾᛞ (''Raginmund'') or ᚱᛖᚷᛁᚾᛗᚢᚾᛞ (''Reginmund''). ''Ragin'' ( Gothic) and ''regin'' (Old German) meant "counsel". The Old High German ''mund'' originally meant "hand", but came to mean "protection". This etymology suggests that the name originated in the Early Middle Ages, possibly from Latin. Alternatively, the name can also be derived from Germanic Hraidmund, the first element being ''Hraid'', possibly meaning "fame" (compare ''Hrod'', found in names such as Robert, Roderick, Rudolph, Roland, Rodney and Roger) and ''mund'' meaning "protector". Despite the German and French origins of the English name, some of its early uses in English documents appear in Latinized form. As a surname, its first recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Hartley (athlete)
William John Hartley (born 27 June 1950) is an English former athlete. Biography Hartley was raised in Lydiate, Lancashire (now Merseyside) on the outskirts of Liverpool where his family ran a market garden. He began his athletic career at age 13 as a high jumper. By age 18 he held the Under-19 record for 400 m hurdles (52.9 seconds). Hartley finished third behind Alan Pascoe in the 400 metres hurdles event at the 1973 AAA Championships and then won a silver medal representing England at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand. The year continued to bring significant success as he won a gold medal at the European Championships in Rome in the 400 m relay and by virtue of being the highest placed British athlete in the 400 metres hurdles the 1974 AAA Championships was considered the British 400 metres hurdles champion. He then won the title outright at the 1975 AAA Championships. He later represented England in the 400 metres hurdles event, at the 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Hartley
Donna Marie Louise Hartley ( Murray, later Wass; 1 May 1955 – 7 June 2013) was a British athlete. She specialised in the 200, 400 and 4x400 relay. In the 4x400 relay she won an Olympic Bronze medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. She also won 2 Commonwealth Gold medals in the 400 and 4x400 relay at Edmonton, Canada Commonwealth Games 1978. Biography Murray, born in Southampton, was a south of England sprint champion and then became the British 200 metres champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1972 WAAA Championships. Donna won the South of England 100m and 200m championships in 1974. A year later, Murray became the British 400 metres champion at the 1975 WAAA Championships. Shortly before the 1977 WAAA Championships Murray married fellow athlete Bill Hartley and competed under her married name thereafter. As Donna Hartley, she then won the 1977 UK Championships 400m. At the newly formed 1977 UK Athletics Championships Donna was AAA� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Val Rutter
Valerie Joy Rutter née Harrison (born 30 October 1954), is a female former athlete who competed for England. Biography Harrison finished third behind Ilona Gusenbauer in the high jump event at the 1973 WAAA Championships before becoming British high jump champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1974 WAAA Championships. In between the WAAA Championships, Harrison represented England in the high jump event, at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand. Harrison married Raymond Rutter in the Summer of 1977 and competed under her married name thereafter. Four years later, Rutter represented England again in the high jump event, at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta Alberta is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three Canadian Prairies, prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, t ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Green (athlete)
Brian William Green (born 15 May 1941) is a British former Sprint (running), sprinter. Biography Green attended Walton Grammar School and worked as an advertising assistant. He came to sprinting late, having previously divided his time between other sporting interests including Squash (sport), squash, badminton, and field hockey, hockey. Standing at Green was once told he was too short to be a sprinter. Despite this, at the age of 31, Green became the fastest man in Britain, recording a time of 10.1 seconds in Bratislava. Green was second behind Gary Symonds in the 100 metres event at the 1970 AAA Championships but by virtue of being the highest placed British athlete was considered the List of British champions in 100 metres, British 100 metres champion. Shortly afterwards he represented England at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games, England and won a bronze medal at the Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games, 1970 British Commonwealth Games in the 4×100 metres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Gower
Graham John Gower (25 May 1947 – 10 May 2017) was a male athlete who competed for Great Britain and England. Biography Gower finished third behind David Hemery in the 110 metres hurdles event at the 1970 AAA Championships and would go on to podium every year from 1971 to 1975, being unlucky to race during a time when British hurdling was at a peak with David Hemery, Alan Pascoe and Berwyn Price all racing. He represented England in the 110 metres hurdles, at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch Christchurch (; ) is the largest city in the South Island and the List of cities in New Zealand, second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand. Christchurch has an urban population of , and a metropolitan population of over hal ..., New Zealand. In the early 1970s, and at the time of his appearance for Englandin the 1974 Commonwealth Games he taught geography at Watford Boys Grammar School and was the co-author of 'Basic Processes in Physical Geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendan Foster
Sir Brendan Foster (born 12 January 1948) is a British former long-distance runner, athletics commentator and road race organiser. He founded the Great North Run, one of the sport's most high profile half-marathon races. As an athlete, he won the bronze medal in the 10,000 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the gold medal in the 5,000 metres at the 1974 European Championships and the 10,000 metres at the 1978 Commonwealth Games. He later provided commentary and analysis on athletics, particularly long-distance events, for BBC Sport. Early life Educated at St Joseph's RC Grammar School in Hebburn, the University of Sussex and Carnegie College of Physical Education, Foster returned to St Joseph's Grammar School as a chemistry teacher. His pupils included footballer turned manager Phil Brown, whom he tried to encourage to take up running over football. Athletics career Brendan Foster's athletic career saw him compete in three Olympic Games, claiming Britain's only tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prudence French
Prudence Elizabeth French (born 1950), is a female former athlete who competed for England. Biography French finished third behind Sue Platt in the javelin throw event at the 1968 WAAA Championships. French became the national javelin throw champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1972 WAAA Championships. French represented England in the javelin event, at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch Christchurch (; ) is the largest city in the South Island and the List of cities in New Zealand, second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand. Christchurch has an urban population of , and a metropolitan population of over hal ..., New Zealand. References 1950 births English female javelin throwers British female javelin throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games Living people Commonwealth Games athletes for England 20th-century English sportswomen {{England-javelinthrow- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Lowe-Cropper
Patricia Barbara Cropper née Lowe (born 15 September 1943) is a British retired middle-distance runner. She competed in the 800 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics. She was appointed MBE in the 1974 Birthday Honours. Biography Lowe who raced for Birchfield Harriers represented England at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, she represented Great Britain in the 800 metres event. Lowe became the national 800 metres champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1969 WAAA Championships. The following year Lowe won a silver medal in the 800 metres at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. In July 1971, Lowe finished third Canadian Abby Hoffman at the 1971 WAAA Championships and then later that year Lowe married fellow Birchfield Harriers athlete Dave Cropper and competed under her married name thereafter. Cropper finished second be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Corbett
Sharon Corbett (married name Sharon Avann) (born 24 June 1953), is a former athlete who competed for England. Biography Corbett twice finished third in the javelin event at the WAAA Championships; behind Inger Fallo at the 1971 WAAA Championships and behind Pru French at the 1972 WAAA Championships. She finally became the British javelin champion at the 1973 WAAA Championships. Corbett represented England and won a bronze medal in the javelin event, at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand. Corbett finished behind Tessa Sanderson Theresa Ione Sanderson (born 14 March 1956) is a British former javelin thrower. She appeared in every Summer Olympic Games, Summer Olympics from 1976 to 1996, winning the gold medal in the Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's ja ... at the WAA Championships in both 1975 and 1976; the second of which she competed under her married name Avann. She had married John Avann in late 1975. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |