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1st Jun 2025
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Lachie Stewart, 1970 Commonwealth 10,000m champion, dies

Iconic winner at 1970 Games in front of his home Scottish crowd has died aged 81 after a short illness
10th Mar 2025

Don Turner, athletics official, ultra-runner and AW contributor, dies aged 88

Epsom & Ewell Harriers athlete finished runner-up in the London to Brighton race and third in the Comrades Marathon in […]
25th Oct 2024
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Alan Simpson, 1960s miler, dies aged 84

British middle-distance runner finished fourth in the 1964 Olympic 1500m final
28th Jul 2024

Coaching legend John Anderson dies aged 92

Anderson guided world 5000m record-breaker Dave Moorcroft plus Sheila Carey, Liz McColgan, John Graham, Judy Simpson and many more during a stellar career
9th Jul 2024

Brian Kilby, European and Commonwealth marathon champion, dies aged 86

Coventry Godiva runner won major titles in 1962 and competed in two Olympic marathons, placing fourth in 1964
18th Jun 2024

Bob Schul, 1964 Olympic 5000m champion, dies aged 86

The only American to win Olympic 5000m gold used his withering sprint finish to beat a top-class field 60 years ago
17th Jun 2024

Scottish endurance runner Alastair Hay dies

Tributes pour in following the sad news about the 2010 Commonwealth Games runner
25th Apr 2024

Tipton Harrier Allan Rushmer dies aged 80

Popular distance runner won Commonwealth bronze over three miles in 1966 and later excelled as a veteran runner
15th Feb 2024

Henry Rono, world record-breaking Kenyan trailblazer, dies aged 72

The prodigious talent set four world records in 81 days in 1978 but career was thwarted by alcoholism and Olympic boycotts
11th Feb 2024

Kelvin Kiptum, marathon world record-holder, dies aged 24

Athletics world stunned by the news on Sunday that the Kenyan athlete and coach Gervais Hakizimana died in a road accident
3rd Feb 2024

Michel Jazy, former world mile record-holder, dies aged 87

French middle-distance runner ran 3:53.6 for the mile in 1965 during a career that saw him set nine world records and win two European titles and an Olympic silver
18th Jan 2024

Shawn Barber, 2015 world pole vault champion, dies aged 29

Canadian record-holder was a member of the six-metre pole vault club and twice made the Commonwealth Games podium 
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