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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