Nostalgia

Nostalgia

Classic athletics action from yesteryear

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Dave Bedford's 50-year-old championships record

The oldest British Championships record in the book has stood the test of time for an amazing half century
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Eilidh Doyle's greatest race

Scottish 400m hurdler looks back on her victory at the European Championships in Zurich on August 16, 2014
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Eamonn Coghlan's greatest race

After suffering disappointment at successive Olympics, the middle-distance runner wrote a redemption story that has gone down in Irish folklore
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English men's 12-stage and women's 6-stage relays preview

Martin Duff and Steve Smythe look ahead to this weekend's big relay event at Sutton Park which sees the best of England up against top clubs from Scotland and Wales
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Alan Pascoe: my greatest race

The 400m hurdles legend recalls how he linked up with Glen Cohen, Bill Hartley and David Jenkins to land European 4x400m victory in Rome in 1974 but then went from striking gold to ending up in the gutter
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Two-time Olympian and Belgrave stalwart Eric Hall dies

Race walker who competed at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics for Britain has passed away aged 89
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The unforgettable English National of 1972

We look back half a century to one of the most notable of English National Cross-Country races
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Why the English National is the stuff of champions

We look back at some of the major success stories from the National Cross Country Championships' long history
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Mary Rand's finest moment

The 1964 Olympic long jump champion looks back on the golden moment in Tokyo when she took top spot with a world record leap of 6.76m, then landed pentathlon silver and 4x100m bronze
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Peter Elliott's greatest race

The Olympic silver medallist recalls when he finally secured a golden moment – and followed it up with an unforgettable lap of honour
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Sprint relay perfection in Athens

Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish and Mark Lewis-Francis recall the magical moment from the 2004 Olympics when they shocked the mighty Americans to claim gold
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Heritage honours for Shrewsbury School and Thames Hare & Hounds

World Athletics gives Heritage plaques to British athletics institutions in latest wave of awards
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