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2010 Editions Volume 48, No. 4, December 2010
	British Athletes in the European All-Time Lists - Stuart Mazdon In this age of new-found devotion to manly exercises was John Trevor the first sub-even-time sprinter? - Bob Phillips Four minutes for four million (Ireland v New Zealand, 1 mile) From 1952 to 1992, the greatest triumphs of the "Tough of the Track" (Alf Tupper) - Brendan Gallagher The men's pentathlon: how the World record has progressed - Jacques Carmelli "A quarry of rustic and sinewy athletes" (European Championships) - Bob Phillips Coe was running the Golden Mile that night, and so I missed the Blackpool Illuminations - Thomas S Hurst A win against Germany in the last days of the Weimar Republic (The first British 5000 metres under 15 minutes) - David Thurlow How the mighty milers fall: an Olympic study - David Cocksedge Beyond the "ballyhoo": a waging of total sport (Chataway v Kuts - the first British 5000 metres under 14 minutes) - Bob Phillips Another British record for Walter George discovered after 128 years! - Oscar Vecchi But who was this Blackheath Harrier, Bill Aylett? The first sub-10 seconds 100 metres men in chronological order - K Ken Nakamura A gold medal won in space-eating fashion (Hector Dyer) - Don M. Groome The man who Kevin Young has still to surpass: the career of Glenn Hardin Beneath the Stockholm sun, the perfect example of what it takes (Glenn Hardin) - Neil Allen Who's who in British athletics in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s (Index to "Athletics Weekly" questionnaires) - I.E.G. Green Book reviews: "Who's Who of British International Athletes 1945-1960", "The Irish Championships 1885-1922" - Ian Tempest Book reviews: "History of the European Athletics Championships", "The Soulless Stadium: a memoir of London's White City" Scotland's first Olympic athletics medallist (Adam Gunn) - John W Keddie Jessica Ennis - how she has progressed - Peter Matthews with Alan Lindop, Stuart Mazdon, Tony Miller, Bill Green British record-holder but left on the sideline (Norman Gregor) - Bob Phillips After 118 years the true identity of an AAA champion revealed (Charles Dickinson) - Cyril J Smyth Holmes v Sweeney 10-7? - Rooney Magnusson
Volume 48, No. 3, September 2010
	Peter Hildreth: "I was never a super star, just a good international" - David Thurlow "Going like a bomb": another Birrell brother and the best in Britain (Bob Birrell) - Bob Phillips Blowing in the wind: the sprinters like it, but what about the hurdlers? - Don M. Groome Progressive United Kingdom All-Comers' records, Indoors - Thomas S. Hurst But will it catch on? The pioneering indoor adventure of 1935 and Cosford's debut 20 years later - "The Times" archives, H.E.D. O'Neill Indoor racing - "A record of all competitive performances" - Peter Radford Who was the first four-turn hammer man ? (John Jackson, Albert Flaxman) "Everything was right about him, as if he was running on air" (Walter Rangeley) - Bob Phillips For the glory of England's abused sprinters: forgotten men of the early 1930s - I.E.G. Green Leading British performers in the sprint events - from 1881 to the end of 1939 No starting-blocks, no electronic timing - sprinting in the 1930s - Guy Butler Athletics on three continents: Malcolm Ash, one of the most versatile athletes of the 1950s, remembers Geoff Elliott, George Broad and others - Michael Sheridan Youthful memories of Coe and Ovett - Thomas S. Hurst Curious statistics from javelin throwing Discovery of an English-born Olympian of 1912, 1920 and 1924 (Len Richardson)
Volume 48, No. 2, June 2010
	Women's high jumping 1920s to 1950s More things in life than a mere Olympic silver medal (Sheila Lerwill) - David Thurlow "Change your style, miss the Olympics, but you'll be a record-breaker in three years" (Sheila Lerwill) - Bob Phillips Women's high jump all-time lists to 31.12.51 - John W. Brant Ratjen the fraud, Csak the champion, Bergmann the survivor (Dora Ratjen, Ibolya Csak, Gretel Bergmann) The Swiss Miss whose record went missing for 35 years (Ilsebill-Elisabetta Pfenning) Victorian era pedestrianism The career of Paddy Cannon, farm-worker, record-breaking professional runner, successful football trainer - Alex Wilson Jack White and Teddy Mills: other 19th Century champions - Oscar Vecchi Other features The cruel season: Nicholas Monsarrat's occasional outings as a sprinter and hurdler - Dr Chris Thorne "Atten-shun !!!" Origins of the Inter-Military Championships - Cyril J. Smyth The competitive career of Arthur Wint - Bob Phillips The Oslo records that got away - again! Book review: Women's rankings 1926-62, by John W. Brant and Janusz Wasko - Ian Tempest Book reviews: Dalton's marathon man, NUTS annual, Manfred Holzhausen A human machine, the joyful liberation of bodily movement - John Bale Sir Peter Snell - still on a pedestal - Dave Huffer Yorkshire's "Zatopek": "No style but tremendous strength, he was all legs" (Frank Aaron) - David Thurlow From Herb McKenley to Michael Johnson, and no real improvement at all? (Bobby Quinn) - I.E.G. Green British quarter-miling half-a-century ago: The fastest 40 at 400 metres at the end of 1959
Volume 48, No. 1, March 2010
	Discussing the Discus Half-a-century of discus-throwing: the record-holders from the 1920s to the 1970s, Americans predominant - but not entirely - Don M. Groome The valiant men who set British discus "records" in the inter-war years - Bob Phillips Norwegian would . . . and did (Helge Sivertsen) Half-a-century ago: a year in the life of British discus-throwing - A. Ballard Peck . . . And a footnote regarding the England-GDR match of 1959 (Manfred Grieser) La splendida carriera del discobolo, Adolfo Consolini - Marco Martini From the grapes of wrath to the fruits of success: the discus career of Sim Iness Women's discus: World All-Time List to 31 December 1930 - John W. Brant Discussing the discus in past editions of "Track Stats" Women's discus: World best progressions to 31 December 1930 - John W. Brant Against the mighty Russians, wondering whether her turn will ever come (Suzanne Allday) - David Thurlow Out of the Gulag, on to the gold (Nina Ponomaryeva) Florence and Gerry - best of the British? World All-Time Best Performers - Discus - as at the end of 1959 Other features World records for the 100, 1500, 110 hurdles, high jump and pole vault: the Americans are well and truly ready! (The imaginary US Olympic Trials of 1940) - Richard Hymans, Dave Johnson A nice winter's trip to the sunny West Indies - Bernard Linley The Oslo records that got away!