Geoff Elliott
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| Club | Woodford Green AC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Geoffrey Michael Elliott (7 April 1931 – 12 October 2014) was a pole vaulter, shot putter and decathlete from England who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Biography
Elliott born in Ilford, finished second behind Harry Whittle in the decathlon event at the 1950 AAA Championships.[2]
Elliott represented the Great Britain team at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki in both the pole vault and decathlon events.[3]
Elliott became the British pole vault champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1952 AAA Championships.[4][page needed] He would go on to win it again at the 1953 AAA Championships and the 1955 AAA Championships.[5]
He set his personal best in the pole vault (4.30 metres) on 28 August 1954 in Bern.
He represented England and won a gold medal in the pole vault at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada.[6] Four years later, in Cardiff he repeated the success at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.[7][8] Just before those games, he was one of many signatories in a letter to The Times on 17 July 1958 opposing 'the policy of apartheid' in international sport and defending 'the principle of racial equality which is embodied in the Declaration of the Olympic Games'.[9]
Achievements
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
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| 1954 | European Championships | Bern, Switzerland | 3rd | Pole vault |
| British Empire and Commonwealth Games | Vancouver, Canada | 1st | Pole vault | |
| 8th | Shot put | |||
| 1958 | British Empire and Commonwealth Games | Cardiff, Wales | 1st | Pole vault |
References
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- ^ Geoff Elliott's obituary
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Biographical Information". Olympedia. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Harry Whittle would be ideal Olympic team captain". Daily Herald. 23 June 1952. Retrieved 21 April 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."AAA Championships (men)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."1954 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."1958 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ Brown and Hogsbjerg, Apartheid is not a game, 16
- Brown, Geoff and Hogsbjerg, Christian. Apartheid is not a Game: Remembering the Stop the Seventy Tour campaign. London: Redwords, 2020. Template:ISBN.
- British Olympic Committee Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Geoff Elliott". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012.
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