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John Alan Wilson (born 1948), is a male former athlete who competed for England.
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John Alan Wilson (born 1948), is a male former athlete who competed for England.
He represented England and won a silver medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay with Alan Pascoe, Andy Carter and Bill Hartley, at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand. [1] [2] [3] He also competed at the European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki.
The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930 and, with the exception of 1942 and 1946, has successively run every four years since. The event was called the British Empire Games from 1930 to 1950, the British Empire and Commonwealth Games from 1954 to 1966, and British Commonwealth Games from 1970 to 1974. Athletes with a disability are included as full members of their national teams since 2002, making the Commonwealth Games the first fully inclusive international multi-sport event. In 2018, the Games became the first global multi-sport event to feature an equal number of men's and women's medal events, and four years later they became the first global multi-sport event to have more events for women than men.
John Sherwood is a male retired British athlete.
William John Hartley is an English former athlete.
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Alan Winterbourne, is a male former weightlifter who competed for Great Britain and England.
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