by Matthew Wood | Jan 31, 2019 | News
The Reverend Edmund Baddeley, Vicar in the village of Starkholmes, in the Derbyshire Dales, would seem to be an unlikely champion of English hammer-throwing in the 19th Century, but on Saturday 1 July 1882 he won the Amateur Athletic Association title in that event....
by Matthew Wood | Jan 31, 2019 | News
Mark 10.3 for the Flying Officer, taking off along the super-fast people’s runway Roy Sandstrom’s memories of a British 100 metres record of 1956 Through to the 1950s British sprinters had made a habit over the years of finding unexpected yards of extra speed when...
