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Born | Woolwich, London, England | 29 December 1944||||||||||||||
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Personal best | 59.76m [1] | ||||||||||||||
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John Noel Hillier (born 1944) is a former athlete who represented both England and Great Britain. [2] John threw a PB of 59.76m on the 27th of July, 1976, in Edinburgh, Scotland. [3]
John is currently an athletics coach, and has coached the likes of Myrtle Augee, [4] Lawrence Okoye, [5] Shaunagh Brown [6] & Nicholas Percy. [7]
John currently coaches a large number of athletes across a wide range of ages, currently the likes of Cleo Agyepong, [8] Brydon Duncan [9] and Timi Babatunde [10] are under his guidance.
He represented England and won a bronze medal in the discus event, at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand. [11] [12] Four years later he represented England in the discus event, at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. [13] [14]
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