| Former Athletics Weekly editor Mel Watman, who has been writing on the sport for half a century, pays tribute to the nation’s most successful athletes from Walter George, who revolutionised miling in the 1880s to Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell of Chariots of Fire fame.
From Mary Rand, Lynn Davies and Ann Packer to Mary Peters. From Seb Coe and Steve Ovett to Linford Christie and Sally Gunnell. From Colin Jackson and Jonathan Edwards and Denise Lewis to Kelly Holmes and Paula Radcliffe.
The book, features in-depth profiles of 78 athletes while more than 500 appear in a British Honours List which details their main career achievements.
This is very much Mel's personal list and while other experts might argue with the choice of one or two of the all-time greats of British athletics they would be in general agreement.
"He has lovingly and painstakingly chronicled those individuals who have left a nation with some of the most breathtaking moments in our sporting history... I know that this book will relive those moments for everybody that reads it." Sebastian Coe
"If your interest in track burns brightly this book is for you." BMC News
"... a tremendous read for all sports followers containing many previously unknown happenings and anecdotes about some of our Olympic medallists and world record breakers." The Olympian
"This work of Mel's is a once-in-a-lifetime endeavour which succeed admirably." Bob Phillips, Track Stats |
