Tiffany Townsend (August 2011) Tiffany Townsend (Born Lake City, Florida on 14/6/89) is a sprinter hardly anybody would have heard of outside the United States in 2011 but like the young British 'Star...
Coach John Smith (August 2011) John Walton Smith was born in Los Angeles, California on the 5th of August 1950 and became a World Class one lap runner before he actually started coaching. He coached...
Jason Richardson (August 2011) Jason Richardson (born 4th of April 1986) coached by John Smith, became the sensation in the high hurdling World in the middle of the Summer of 2011. He came into the...
Lisa Dobriskey (August 2011) Lisa Dobriskey talked to me the day before she won the Grand Prix 1500 at Crystal Palace in 4:04.97 from Hannah England 4:05.73 and Shannon Rowbury of the USA 4:05.73. Her...
Mark Lewis-Francis (August 2011) I talked to Mark Lewis-Francis (28) at the Hilton in London, just before he competed at Crystal Palace where he narrowly missed running in the Final of the 100. I...
David Rudisha - IAAF World Athlete of the Year 2010 David Rudisha (August 2011) (Born 17.12.88 at Kilgoris) IAAF WORLD ATHLETE OF THE YEAR 2010 I talked to David Lekuta Rudisha the day before he won...
David Morwood (June 2011) Born 9/10/70 British Masters 1500/5000 CHAMP 'M40' in 2011 and in 2008, as an 'M35' won the British & Irish International cross country Championships in Northern Ireland. The...
Rosemary Chrimes - A Star for 40 Years (June 2011) Rosemary Chrimes, to my mind is the best example of a 'Class Athlete' still athletically excellent in old age. At 78, despite the fact that in the...
Paul Dickenson Commentator and Athlete (June 2011) PAUL DICKENSON Over 60 British Masters Hammer Champion What do you love most about Veterans/Masters athletics " I would like to be able to say the...
Larry Achike (May 2011) Onochie Lawrence Achike, was born in Islington on the 31st of January 1975 but is known by all in athletics as Larry Achike. He is now well into his thirties and has a breadth...
Three of Histories Greatest milers - Part 3 - SEB COE SEB COE (1984) COE'S WORLD MILE RECORD 3:47.33 Sebastian Newbold Coe (1.76/5'9¼ 58kg/129lbs) , 0BE, MBE was born September 29th, 1956 became a...
Three of Histories Greatest milers - Part 2 - JOHN WALKER JOHN WALKER (1974-82) JOHN WALKER THE FIRST PERSON IN THE WORLD TO BREAK 3:50 FOR A MILE John Walker, was born in New Zealand on 12/1/52. His...
Three of Histories Greatest milers - Part 1 - SYDNEY WOODERSON SYDNEY WOODERSON (1979) Sydney Wooderson did not give interviews to journalists particularly the 'National Press' He only talked at any...
Three very great curve runners of the past and their views HENRY CARR (1964), TOMMIE SMITH (1967), DON QUARRIE (1988) If one was looking back through athletics history in 2011 you might say Usain Bolt...
Derek Ibbotson (Interviewed Oct 1962 - updated 2011) George Derek Ibbotson MBE, was born June 17th 1932 in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire and attended King James' Grammar school, Almondbury...
Walter Wilkinson (Interviewed Summer 2000) Walter Wilkinson of Longwood HAC/Rowntree AC. Longwood is the club Ex-World record holder for the mile Derek Ibbotson belonged to. They were both' Great...
Dave Chapman (Interview Autumn 1998) Dave Chapman (Born 21.8.36) ran the 3000m Steeplechase in 8:46.4 on cinders in 1962. Before that he brought his time down to 8:50.6 in his heat of the 1960 Rome...
'Never Say Die' Les Roberts (April 2011) Les Roberts, has been a racing cyclist, athlete and then archer in his life but unfortunetly, 17 years ago, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease but that...
David Cannon (Interview April 2011) Dave Cannon (Born August 7th 1950) is not a well known name but that was because the UK had so many accomplished distance runners in the 1970's and 80s but if he...
Bruce Tulloh (Interviewed April 2011 and September 1962) Bruce Tulloh, his wife Sue and his three children Clive, Jojo and Katherine all have run to a high standard at some time or another. When I...
Nick McCormick at the Victoria Park '5' (March 2011) Nick McCormick came down to London to compete in the 45th Victoria Park 5 miles road race on the 26th of March, not because there was £1000 on...
The Victoria Park '5' A World Renown Road Race (March 2011) After this year's 5 mile road race in Victoria Park, on the 26th of March, the President of Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets Athletic club...
Bernard Plain MBE (March 2011) Bernie Plain, I have always found a very likable Welshman over the many years I have known him. He still holds the UK 20 miles record of 1:40:34.6. His best 5000 was 13...
World Trials and Inter-Counties - report 3 (2011) ANOTHER HAY AND GOODMAN DUEL To get up at 5.45 am in South East London, to go to the first race of the McCain World Trials & Inter-Counties, with a...
World Trials and Inter-Counties - report 2 (2011) CHARLOTTE PURDUE WINS HER FIRST SENIOR CROSS TITLE (March 2011) Charlotte Purdue (27:29), who won the 'Under 15' Inter-Counties event in 2005 and the...