N.U.T.S.
National Union of Track Statisticians
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Issue 4 for 2025 features: preparing for the Olympic Games in 1956, including all of Derek Ibbotson's races that year; slow times on the White City cinders; Greek roots of the Modern Olympic Games; Marius Eynard, French discus "king" throwing the wrong weight; Roger Gynn, marathon statistics maestro; the missing "Olympians" of 1912; the women's throws at the 1948 Olympics; Suzanne Allday, British shot and discus record-holder; Albert Michelsen, 1920s US marathon man; 19th century origins of the decathlon; British sprint hurdlers at major Games/Championships; steeplechasing issues over the years; Edvin Wide, in the shadow of Nurmi; changes in athletics over the past 80 years and perhaps in the next 80; Arthur Dolphin, "lost" sprinter of the 1920s |
 All-Time UK Men's Lists: Senior, U23, U20, U17, U15, U13 Standard and Short Track All events including road races, walks, relays, combined events |
 All-Time UK Women's Lists: Senior, U23, U20, U17, U15, U13 Standard and Short Track All events including road races, walks, relays, combined events |
Records as at 31 December 2025,
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Combined Events Lists for 2025,
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Records as at 31 December 2024 |
Combined Events Lists for 2024 |
Black Athletes in Britain - the Pioneers, by Peter Lovesey
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A Track Stats Special - 60 page A5 illustrated booklet Price is £8 for delivery to the UK and £10 abroad. Click here for more information, or to order a copy |
British Athletics 2024
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The 66th NUTS Annual, edited by Tony Miller and Stuart Mazdon For more information, and to order a copy, go to Lulu.com |
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 NUTS Event Booklets Statistical histories of UK athletics by event, with amendments and updates |
 British Athletics Handbooks Essential supplement to the NUTS Annual for 4 years |
 A.A.A. Club Newsletter 19 scanned copies 1959 to 1970 |
A Difference In Times, by David Thurlow
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David Thurlow interviewed more than forty former stars of British athletics, most of them Olympians, for "Track Stats". These are now collected in this profusely illustrated book. The candid and entertaining memories span the period between the 1920s and the 1970s. They include Sydney Wooderson, Dorothy Tyler, Derek Ibbotson, Sir Chris Chataway and Lord Terence Higgins. In many cases these were their last published interviews, a unique record of what it was like to compete when the sport was strictly amateur. With hindsight gained by earning their living in other fields, these likeable veterans give fascinating comments on the way the sport has developed. Fully indexed and with an introduction and afterword on the interviewer, David Thurlow.
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1866 and all that... by Peter Radford
The whole story of the world's first national athletics championships, with complete results. Available from the author for £6.36 inc p&p., contact |
British Athletics 1866-80 by Peter Lovesey and Keith Morbey
254 A5 pages, with complete results of the AAC Championships 1866 to 1879, and painstakingly constructed yearlists for each year to 1880. For more information, and to order a copy, go to Lulu.com Support independent publishing: Buy this book on Lulu. |
About The NUTS
The organisation was founded in January 1958, based on the same lines as the A.T.F.S., and similarly devoted to the collection and dissemination of statistics in Track & Field Athletics. The first comprehensive U.K. annual lists were published in Athletics Weekly at the end of 1958, and these formed the basis of British Athletics 1959, which was published by the British Amateur Athletics Board.
As the authoritative compendium on U.K. athletics statistics, and widely known as "The N.U.T.S. Annual", British Athletics has been produced each year since 1959. The title was changed to U.K. Athletics from 1974-1982 (when published by the N.U.T.S.), reverting to its original name from 1983 (once again under the aegis of the B.A.A.B.). The Annual was published by Umbra Software Limited from 1993 to 2010 and by the NUTS themselves from 2011.
All-Time lists for both senior and junior age-groups have been produced at regular intervals, and there has also been a thriving Bulletin, originally entitled N.U.T.S. Notes but now known as Track Stats, and in its 52nd year of publication. Follow the menu for information about publications.
The organisation is governed by its own Constitution under an Executive Committee comprising Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, and a minimum of 8 other members. These officers, who are all voluntary, are elected each year.
Who are the NUTS? - A visual presentation by Ian Tempest (4MB)
How To Join
Membership includes subscription to the NUTS quarterly magazine Track Stats. Members may also purchase copies of the British Athletics annual at a reduced rate.
A membership application form is available as an Adobe Acrobat document.
For more information about membership of the organisation, please contact the Membership Secretary, whose details are listed below.
Progressive British All-Time Top Tens
Spreadsheets are available that complement the series of articles in Track Stats.
Members-only pages
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History
Founding members (31 January 1958)
| Chairman | Alf Wilkins |
| Secretary | Mel Watman |
| Others attending | Stan Greenberg Martin James Bob Sparks Colin Young |
| Committee | The first meeting was held on 2 April 1958, the above named being joined by Len Gebbett and Chris Lindsay. |
| Treasurer | Peter May was elected later in 1958. |
| President | Harold Abrahams C.B.E. was Hon. President from 1960-1977 |
| Norris McWhirter C.B.E. succeeded H.M.A. in 1979, following the latter's death in January 1978. | |
| Sir Eddie Kulukundis succeeded N.D.McW. in 2004, following the latter's death in April 2004. | |
| Peter Radford became President in 2009, with Sir Eddie continuing as President Emeritus. |
N.U.T.S. OFFICERS (1958 to date)
| Year | Chairman | Secretary | Treasurer |
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| 1958 | Alf Wilkins | Mel Watman | Peter May |
| 1960 | Len Gebbett | Pat Brian | Alf Wilkins |
| 1963 | ditto | Peter Hopkins | ditto |
| 1965 | Les Crouch | ditto | ditto |
| 1967 | Alf Wilkins | ditto | ditto |
| 1968 | Bob Phillips | ditto | ditto |
| 1969 | ditto | Andrew Huxtable | Brian Nott |
| 1970 | Peter Hopkins | ditto | ditto |
| 1974 | Bob Sparks | ditto | ditto |
| 1979 | ditto | ditto | Richard Hymans |
| 1980 | Peter Matthews | David Martin | ditto |
| 1982 | ditto | David Wilkinson | ditto |
| 1984 | ditto | Andrew Clatworthy | ditto |
| 1985 | Les Crouch | ditto | Sandra Squires |
| 1990 | ditto | David Martin | Andrew Clatworthy |
| 1991 | ditto | Shirley Hitchcock | John Powell |
| 2001 | Peter Matthews | ditto | ditto |
| 2002 | ditto | ditto | Don Turner |
| 2017 | ditto | Stuart Mazdon | ditto |
| 2023 | Ian Tempest | ditto | ditto |