Modest standards in the javelin, but a Leeds lecturer makes his mark

Memories of Steve Backley, Mick Hill, Fatima Whitbread and Tessa Sanderson over the last 30 years or so cloud the fact that javelin-throwing in Britain was very much one of the poor relations of the sport in earlier times, and even more so than most of the field events. Though the AAA Championships began in […]

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