by Robbie | Feb 21, 2018 | News
“Everything was right about him, as if he was running on air” When I went to interview one of the sons of Walter Rangeley some 16 years or so ago in the course of research for a biography which I was preparing of the 1936 Olympic 4 x 400 metres gold-medallist, Bill...
by Robbie | Feb 1, 2018 | News
Britain’s fastest middle-distance runner for almost 40 years from the 1880s onwards was a Lancastrian. Francis John Kynaston Cross, known familiarly as “Frank”, had been born in Eccles, which was then in Lancashire and is now part of Greater Manchester, on 14 November...
by Robbie | Jul 21, 2014 | Track and Field
The England U20 North team was selected from the Northern U20 competition held in Manchester 14 / 15 June 2014 England Athletics offered the winning U20 athletes the opportunity to compete for England in their respective areas ie North, Midlands and South. The...
