Won the pentathlon gold, setting a world record at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. She suffered death threats on her return home to Northern Ireland, but stood firm against the bully boys. It was the only athletics gold that year and she also became the BBC sports personality of the year.
N.b. The heptathlon has been contested by female athletes since the early 1980s, when it replaced the pentathlon as the primary women's combined event contest (the javelin throw and 800 m were added). It was first contested at the Olympic level in the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Dave Boy Green Dean Macey Vinny Samways Willy Van Der kerkof Tony Knowles
Vinny Samways and Dave 'Boy' Green were hardly stars. Journeymen who got some headlines would be more accurate, I'd suggest.
Dave 'Boy' Green was a big star back in the day especially up this neck of the woods. I'll agree with you on Samways .
I remember him well. He was good at European and Commonwealth level, gave Carlos Palomino a bit of a fright but came seriously unstuck against Sugar Ray Leonard (but then, who didn't?). I'd still struggle to call him a nationwide star, despite the affection in which he was held.
Won the pentathlon gold, setting a world record at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. She suffered death threats on her return home to Northern Ireland, but stood firm against the bully boys. It was the only athletics gold that year and she also became the BBC sports personality of the year.
N.b. The heptathlon has been contested by female athletes since the early 1980s, when it replaced the pentathlon as the primary women's combined event contest (the javelin throw and 800 m were added). It was first contested at the Olympic level in the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Forgotten? She pops up on tele regularly enough over forty years after the event, I wouldn't call her forgotten RCC?
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Sonia Lannaman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Shrubb
Lester Piggott
Lloyd Honeyghan
Kenneth Matthews
Anita Lonsbrough
Martin Lampkin
John Curry
Kathy ( Smallwood) Cook - Bronze in 400m at same Games.
2 of the GB athletes deservedly winning medals when the US dominated in their home country & without the Russians.
Won the pentathlon gold, setting a world record at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. She suffered death threats on her return home to Northern Ireland, but stood firm against the bully boys. It was the only athletics gold that year and she also became the BBC sports personality of the year.
N.b. The heptathlon has been contested by female athletes since the early 1980s, when it replaced the pentathlon as the primary women's combined event contest (the javelin throw and 800 m were added). It was first contested at the Olympic level in the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Peter Collins
Mike MacFarlane
Dave Boy Green
Buster Mottram
John Watson
Peter Oosterhuis
Our greatest ever sportsman in my opinion.
Ken Buchanan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Buttrick
Certainly the best ever at the jockey / tax evasion biathlon.