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Wanderers Ways. Neil Thompson 1961-2021

Random Claims To Fame


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I heard Nat Lofthouse do a blanket ripper in the gents at Bury.

 

The wife reckons she had a chat with Ben E King on the phone years ago.

 

 

does she stand by that?

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I was the first athlete to break 2:30 for 1000m before ever breaking 1:56 for 800m.

 

And it's only been matched once - by a double Olympic gold medallist (Svetlana Masterkova).

 

This svetlana

 

Hbaht's??

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I was the first athlete to break 2:30 for 1000m before ever breaking 1:56 for 800m.

 

And it's only been matched once - by a double Olympic gold medallist (Svetlana Masterkova).

 

 

Drug enhanced?

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I was the first athlete to break 2:30 for 1000m before ever breaking 1:56 for 800m.

 

And it's only been matched once - by a double Olympic gold medallist (Svetlana Masterkova).

Another gooden that Malc. Did you used to compete at internationals?
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I was the first athlete to break 2:30 for 1000m before ever breaking 1:56 for 800m.

 

And it's only been matched once - by a double Olympic gold medallist (Svetlana Masterkova).

 

 

Tease

 

 

 

Mal Whitfield (United States): 2:20.8 (August 16, 1953) Eskilstuna, Sweden

On August 16, 1953, Mal Whitfield improved the world record by four-tenths-of-second, running 2:20.8 in Eskilstuna, Sweden. At the time of this achievement, he held the world in the half-mile (880 yards) at 1:48.6, established July 17, 1953 in Turku, Finland. At the 1948 and 1952 Olympic Games, Whitfield had won the gold medal in the 800 meters. Also in 1949, he claimed the gold medal in the 4 X 400 meter relay and the bronze medal in the 400 meters. In 1952, Whitfield garnered the silver medal in the 4 X 400 meter relay.

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