Track Stats

Worldwide Athletics Facts and Figures

This is the quarterly bulletin of the NUTS which has been published since 1963. It was originally named NUTS Notes and changed its name to Track Stats in 1982. It is an A5 booklet with usually 64 pages per edition. Its coverage extends to the history and statistics of athletics worldwide, and ideas for articles are welcomed by the editor. To subscribe, you simply need to join the NUTS.

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Subjects planned for 2024 include the following:

The advance of Afro-American women by John Brant; 1500 and 5000 metres UK rankings by Trevor Clowes; the careers of Brian Shenton and Clive Loveland.


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Black Athletes in Britain: the Pioneers by Peter Lovesey, a Track Stats Special, 2024

Volume 62, No. 3, September 2024
  • Editorial comment - An over-view of Paris 2024
  • UK athletes placed 4th to 8th at the Olympics - Mike Dagg-Jenden
  • Team scores at Paris 2024 - Trevor Clowes
  • World records for almost every day of the year - Brian Hatch
  • Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian Olympic Champion at the 56lb weight - The Editor
  • Afro-American women athletes up to 1948 - John Brant
  • Josef Klein, Czech all-rounder at Cambridge University
  • Early development of the discus throw in modern times - The Editor
  • Denys Milne, post-War Scottish discus thrower
  • European Championships 2024 team scores - Trevor Clowes
  • Frank Phillipson, Lakeland pole-vaulter - Neil Shuttleworth
  • Jack Sanders and other half-milers of the 1920s - The Editor and John Edwards
  • Progressive British 1500m performances at major meetings - Trevor Clowes
  • Florence Pengelly and Evelyn Webb, race walkers of the 1930s - The Editor
  • Betty Franklin and Beryl Randle, post-War race walkers
  • A.A. Milne's modest athletics career
  • A spectator's review of the 2024 European Championships - Ian Tempest
  • Scottish athletes who were also rugby internationals, since 1945 - John W. Keddie
  • The Paris Olympic repechage - middle-distance - Mike Dagg-Jenden
  • The Paris Olympic repechage - the sprints - Stuart Mazdon
  • Book Reviews: Olympic Moments from "The Times" and Ron Jones's autobiography - The Editor and Keith Morbey
  • Chasing the wind in discus's "Throw Town" - Guy Dirkin
  • Mary Decker-Slaney's US records finally beaten in 2024 - Mike Dagg-Jenden
  • George Martin, distance star of 1895
  • Photographs from the Rome 2024 European Championships

Volume 62, No. 2, June 2024
  • Editorial Comment: Poles apart - the tragic destiny of Donyetsk
  • Wilma Rudolph and the 1960 Rome Olympics day by day
  • The 1960 Rome Olympic Marathon
  • The origins of the Ancient Olympic Games - Dave Terry
  • Malcolm Nokes, England's hammer pioneer - Ian Tempest
  • American women's distance-running, Part III - 1957 to 1960 - Mike Dagg-Jenden
  • Charles Towne and the unbeaten Oxford & Cambridge Tour of 1937 - John Edwards
  • Norman Read - New Zealand's Olympic walking champion of 1956 - The Editor
  • The World Indoor Championships in Glasgow - Brian Hatch
  • Progressive British 800 metres performers at major meetings - Trevor Clowes
  • Nellie Halstead - Britain's record-breaking runner of the 1930s - John Brant
  • George Bonhag (USA) and the 1906 Olympic race walks - The Editor
  • Osaka Marathon 2024 - poster by Yusuke Nakamura

Volume 62, No. 1, March 2024
  • Editorial Comment - Paris 2024 and the future of the Olympic Games
  • How did Eric Liddell win the 400m in Paris, 1924? - John W. Keddie
  • A poetic prelude to the imminent Olympics - Keith Morbey
  • Wilfrid Tatham, middle distance Olympian of the 1920s, and hurdler - John Edwards
  • Stanley Fuller, sprinter for Britain at the 1932 Olympics
  • Fred Reid, British international sprinter of the early 1930s - The Editor
  • Edgar Bredin, quarter-mile world record holder in the 1890s - Peter Lovesey
  • Fred Bacon's hour record of 1897 - Keith Morbey
  • Ten year averages - Richard Hymans
  • The origins of relay racing - Peter Lovesey
  • Frank Sugg, Test cricketer, League footballer, "rarely beaten shot-putter"
  • Captain T.D. Phelan, Irish holder of the Egyptian hurdles record - Cyril J. Smyth
  • Britain's longest lasting mile records
  • The tragic life of Irene Royse - The Editor
  • Phyllis Richards, Birmingham Atalanta's half-miler
  • GB medallists at the Olympic Games - Mike Dagg-Jenden
  • Ian Barratt, pole vaulter of multiple nationalities - The Editor
  • . . . and other Rhodesian athletes
  • The opening decade of sub-four-minute milers
  • Robert Wilkinson, John Duus . and Guy Dirkin - John Edwards, Neil Shuttleworth
  • Hugo Wieslander, 1908 Olympic javelin-thrower

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