Mike Ellis (athlete)

For other people with the same name, see Michael Ellis.

Mike Ellis

Personal information
Nationality	British (English)
Born	3 September 1936 (1936-09-03) (age 88) Bloomsbury, London, England
Height	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	102 kg (225 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	hammer throw
Club	Thames Valley Harriers
Medal record Men's athletics Representing   England British Empire and Commonwealth Games 1958 Cardiff Hammer throw

Michael John Ellis (born 3 September 1936) was an Olympic athlete from England.

Biography

Ellis specialised in the hammer throw events during his career and became the British hammeer throw champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1957 AAA Championships ^[1] and retained his title at the 1958 AAA Championships. ^[2]

Shortly afterwards he represented England and claimed the gold medal for them in the men's hammer throw event at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. ^{[3] [4]} 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'. ^[5]

Ellis won two more AAA hammer throw titles at the 1959 AAA Championships and the 1960 AAA Championships respectively. ^[6]

At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, he represented Great Britain in the hammer throw competition. ^[7]

References

1. "AAA Championship results" . Weekly Dispatch (London). 14 July 1957. Retrieved 1 May 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
2. "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
3. "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
4. "1958 Athletes". Team England.
5. Brown and Hogsbjerg, 'Apartheid is not a game', 16
6. "AAA Championships (men)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
7. "SR/Olympics profile". Sports reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.

• Brown, Geoff and Hogsbjerg, Christian. Apartheid is not a Game: Remembering the Stop the Seventy Tour campaign. London: Redwords, 2020. ISBN   9781912926589.