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Nationality | England | |||||||||||||
Born | 27 June 1933 Chesterfield | |||||||||||||
Died | 28 March 2014 (aged 80) Toton, Nottinghamshire | |||||||||||||
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Peter Alan Wilkinson (27 June 1933 – 28 March 2014) was a male athlete who competed for England.
He represented England and won a bronze medal in the marathon at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. [1] [2]
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