"Menzies Campbell Walter Menzies Campbell, Baron Campbell of Pittenweem, (; born 22 May 1941), often known as Ming Campbell, is a British Liberal Democrat politician, advocate and former athlete. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Fife from 1987 to 2015 and was the Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2 March 2006 until 15 October 2007. Campbell held the British record for the 100 metres sprint from 1967–74, having run the distance in 10.2 seconds. He captained the Great Britain athletics team in 1965-66. He is currently the Chancellor of the University of St Andrews. He"
"Great Britain at the 1964 Summer Olympics Great Britain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. 204 competitors, 160 men and 44 women, took part in 124 events in 17 sports. British athletes have competed and won at least one gold medal in every Summer Olympic Games. Future Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell represented Britain at the 200m. Men's Hammer Throw Twelve cyclists represented Great Britain in 1964. 13 fencers, 9 men and 4 women, represented Great Britain in 1964. Four male Judoka represented Great Britain in 1964. Three male pentathletes"
"represented Great Britain in 1964. Eight shooters represented Great Britain in 1964. Louis Martin Great Britain at the 1964 Summer Olympics Great Britain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. 204 competitors, 160 men and 44 women, took part in 124 events in 17 sports. British athletes have competed and won at least one gold medal in every Summer Olympic Games. Future Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell represented Britain at the 200m. Men's Hammer Throw Twelve cyclists represented Great Britain in 1964. 13 fencers, 9 men and 4 women, represented Great"
"honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. In 2010 it was reported that Campbell had been considered for the post of High Commissioner to Australia; ""The Guardian"" claimed it had been stalled as it would trigger a by-election in Campbell's constituency. Menzies Campbell Walter Menzies Campbell, Baron Campbell of Pittenweem, (; born 22 May 1941), often known as Ming Campbell, is a British Liberal Democrat politician, advocate and former athlete. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Fife from 1987 to 2015 and was the Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2 March 2006 until 15 October 2007."
"the Great Britain athletics team in 1965 and 1966, and held the British 100 metres record from 1967 to 1974. At one time he was known as ""the fastest white man on the planet"", running the 100m in 10.2 seconds twice during 1967. In his first 10.2 second race he beat O.J. Simpson who was then an aspiring athlete. Campbell became chairman of the Scottish Liberals in 1975, and was an unsuccessful candidate at various general elections between 1974-83. In February and October 1974 he stood in Greenock and Port Glasgow, being defeated by Labour's Dickson Mabon, and in 1979"
"most of the election campaign, leading the New Zealand team at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, and mentoring the gold medal winning discus thrower Beatrice Faumuina. Les Mills Leslie Roy Mills (born 1 November 1934) is a retired New Zealand track and field athlete and politician. He represented New Zealand at the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games over two decades, competing in the shot put and discus throw. At the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games he achieved his best result, a gold medal in the discus. Mills opened his first gym in 1968 and gives his name to Les Mills"
"Colin Campbell (Olympian) Colin Campbell (born 20 June 1946) is a British sportsman, who competed in track and field athletics and in the bobsled. He competed for Great Britain in the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics, before moving to bobsled and competing at the 1976 Winter Olympics, becoming one of only a handful of British athletes to compete at both the Summer and Winter games. Born on the island of Jersey, Campbell was a sporty child who progressed through youth competitions to compete internationally in athletics for Britain. As a middle-distance runner Campbell competed in the 400 meters and 800"
"an advocate in 2003, but returned to practice in January 2008. Campbell married Elspeth, Lady Grant-Suttie, daughter of Major General Roy Urquhart, in June 1970. The couple have no children, but Lady Campbell has a son from her previous marriage. A successful sprinter at university (he broke Olympic gold medalist Wyndham Halswelle's 53-year-old Scottish 300 yards record in 1961), Campbell competed for the Great Britain team in the 200 metres and 4×100 metres relay at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and captained the Scotland team at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica. He also captained"
"metres. He reached the second round of the 400m in 1968 and broke the British record in qualifying for the 800m in 1972, though running with an injury he did not progress out of the first round. He also competed for England at the 1970 and 1974 Commonwealth Games. He subsequently answered an advert calling for trialists for the British bobsleigh team and, having successfully competed in these, was selected for the 1976 four-man bob team, where Britain finished 13th. Campbell retired to Jersey, where he was President of the Jersey Spartans Athletics Club for 15 years. Professionally, he moved"
"the Legislative Council. He was its deputy president, chairman of its finance committee, and its president (1953–1955). He supported the Menzies government's 1951 referendum to ban the Communist Party of Australia. He was elected unopposed in 1956 to the South Australian Legislative Council as a member for Central District No.2. and held the seat until 1975. A. C. Rymill was a noted polo player, representing South Australia in interstate matches 1933–1951, including the Gold Cup tournament in Sydney in 1938. He was a speedboat driver and won the 1933 Australasian hydroplane championship in his father's hydroplane ""Tortoise II"" against H."
"capital, and the host the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. By the time of Sir Robert Menzies's retirement in 1966, the Australian economy seemed stronger and wealthier than ever before. The Australian governments of this period, dominated by the conservative Liberal Party of Australia, were broadly successful in maintaining economic growth and unemployment, but were criticised by opponents for failing to effectively control inflation, instituting periodic ""credit squeezes"" (1952 and 1961), and rejecting national economic planning. During the 1960s an increase in tariff protection for new industries protected jobs and profits, but lowered the need for productivity and innovation, and by 1966"
"between careers in banking and managing athletics and tennis clubs on Jersey. Colin Campbell (Olympian) Colin Campbell (born 20 June 1946) is a British sportsman, who competed in track and field athletics and in the bobsled. He competed for Great Britain in the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics, before moving to bobsled and competing at the 1976 Winter Olympics, becoming one of only a handful of British athletes to compete at both the Summer and Winter games. Born on the island of Jersey, Campbell was a sporty child who progressed through youth competitions to compete internationally in athletics for Britain."
"Les Mills Leslie Roy Mills (born 1 November 1934) is a retired New Zealand track and field athlete and politician. He represented New Zealand at the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games over two decades, competing in the shot put and discus throw. At the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games he achieved his best result, a gold medal in the discus. Mills opened his first gym in 1968 and gives his name to Les Mills International, a company founded by his son Phillip Mills. He was Mayor of Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, from 1990 to 1998. Mills trained New"
"and spent the next three years as a prisoner-of-war in Singapore, Taiwan, and Manchuria. Kent Hughes retained his seat in parliament during that time, and joined the new Liberal Party upon his return to Australia in 1945. He became Deputy Premier of Victoria in 1948, but resigned the following year to contest the House of Representatives at the 1949 federal election. Robert Menzies added Kent Hughes to his cabinet in 1951, as Minister for the Interior and Minister for Works and Housing. Kent Hughes was Chairman of the Organising Committee for the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. His chairmanship was widely judged"
"director of Canadian athletics until 1976 and later prepared the British team to the Moscow Olympics. During the 1990s, he was a member of BBC Cymru/Wales' sports department. Davies was created a CBE on 17 June 2006, having previously received an MBE in 1967. He was elected unopposed as President of the UK Athletics Members Council for a further four years following the close of nominations. Lynn Davies Lynn Davies CBE (born 20 May 1942) is a British former track and field athlete from Wales, who specialised in the long jump. He was the 1964 Olympic champion in the event."
"Uchida. While training for the Olympic Games, Campbell attended Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan as a special research student from 1960-1964. The Meiji team was world-renowned and Campbell credited the preparation and discipline taught at Meiji for his 1961, 1962, and 1963 U.S. National titles and his gold medal in the 1963 Pan-American Games. In 1964, Campbell competed in judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He suffered an injury and did not win a medal. He broke his ankle and was out for two years. In the years after returning from the Olympic Games, Campbell worked as a"
"only two GB gold medallists that year, the other being Don Thompson in the 50 kilometre walk. She would also be the last British woman to win Olympic gold in swimming until Rebecca Adlington gained the gold in the 2008 Summer Olympics, 48 years later. At the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth she won three golds: 110 yards breaststroke; 220 yards breaststroke; and 440 yards individual medley. At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo she came seventh in the 400 m individual medley Lonsbrough was educated at St. Joseph's Catholic College, Bradford, a girls' direct grant grammar"
"Lynn Davies Lynn Davies CBE (born 20 May 1942) is a British former track and field athlete from Wales, who specialised in the long jump. He was the 1964 Olympic champion in the event. He was born in Nantymoel near Bridgend and was a member of the Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club. He won an Olympic gold medal in the long jump in 1964 (earning himself the nickname ""Lynn the Leap"") with a leap of 8.07 metres. He finished ninth in 1968, having been flag bearer at the opening ceremony. In 1964 he also competed in the 100 metres and 4×100"
"Leslie Cliff (swimmer) Leslie G. Cliff, (born March 11, 1955), later known by her married name Leslie Tindle, is a Canadian former competitive swimmer who participated in the Olympics, Commonwealth Games and Pan American Games. She competed at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games and won two gold medals at the 1974 Commonwealth Games. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she attended York House School. As a 17-year-old, she won the silver medal in the 400-metre individual medley at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. In 1971, Cliff was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. She"
"was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 1976, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1984, and the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1997. Leslie Cliff (swimmer) Leslie G. Cliff, (born March 11, 1955), later known by her married name Leslie Tindle, is a Canadian former competitive swimmer who participated in the Olympics, Commonwealth Games and Pan American Games. She competed at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games and won two gold medals at the 1974 Commonwealth Games. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she attended York House School. As a 17-year-old, she won the silver"
"Summer Olympics, Campbell represented Australia in both the 50 m and 100 m freestyle, as well as the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay (in which they came first and set a new world record). Despite being the reigning world champion in the 50 and 100 m freestyle, she did not win a medal in these events. Campbell is a student at Queensland University of Technology, where she is studying Business, majoring in Public Relations. Campbell attends a local Baptist church in Brisbane. Until December 2016, Campbell lived with her sister, Cate. As of 2017, they are no longer housemates,"
"this that Campbell took up competitive swimming. She completed her secondary school studies at Kenmore State High School in Brisbane, Queensland. Her sister Bronte is also an Olympic swimmer and the pair competed in the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. In 2007, she went to the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney and won two gold medals in the 50 metre individual freestyle and 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay. She followed this up in 2008 with a victory in the 50 metre freestyle at the Japan Open, beating compatriot Libby Trickett and setting new Australian and Commonwealth"
"seconds. At the 2016 Australian Swimming Championships she won the 100 metre freestyle to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics. She broke the Australian record in the 50 metre freestyle in the semifinals with a time of 23.93, which was the fastest time ever in a textile swimsuit. She went on to win the final and qualify for the Olympics in the 50 metre freestyle, improving her time to 23.84. In addition, Campbell also qualified for the Olympic team in both the 4 × 100 m freestyle (winning Gold in a new World Record time) & 4 × 100 m"
"least one estimated to be just under 17.60 metres (Olympic record was 17.39), but after each of those jumps, and sometimes with a few seconds' hesitation, a judge's red flag indicated a foul. He won the silver medal at the 1978 Commonwealth Games with 16.93 and was third in 1979 IAAF World Cup with 16.76. His personal best result was 17.09. In 2003 he was appointed CEO of the Richmond Football Club. On July 25, 2015, Athletics Australia submitted a request to the IAAF to award Campbell the Gold medal after all for his fouled fourth jump at the 1980"
"round. His 100 metres personal best is a run of 10.54 seconds set in 1964. Among his other sprinting achievements were a number of medals from the British West Indies Championships. He took the 200 m silver at the 1964 Championships, but his greatest haul came at the following year's event, where he finished just behind Lennox Miller for the 100 m silver medal and beat Clifton Bertrand, a two-time champion, to the 200 m gold with a run of 20.8 seconds. He represented Jamaica at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica. He was part of"
"- 6 gold, 9 silver and 10 bronze medals in six sports. Australia finished 11th on the gold medal table and 9th on the total medal table. Elizabeth ""Libby"" Kosmala competed in her first Paralympics, and won a bronze medal in swimming in the Women's 3x50 m Medley Relay 2–4 event, and participated in other swimming and athletics events. The Olympic and Paralympic Games both aim to be apolitical; despite this, at the 1976 Paralympic Games, politics intruded into the games. Apartheid practices in South Africa brought controversy with the country's invitation to and inclusion in the games. Australian athlete,"
"medley relays. At the 2016 Australian Grand Prix meet, she broke the long course 100 metre freestyle world record in a time of 52.06. This was 0.01 seconds faster than the previous world record set by Britta Steffen during the super suit era. At the 2016 Summer Olympics Campbell won a gold medal as a member of the Australian women's 4 × 100 m freestyle team. The team, which included Campbell's sister Bronte, set a world record time of 3:30.65. This was followed by a silver medal as a member of the women's 4 × 100 m medley team. In"
"he was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order in 1979. An avid sportsman, he was a football referee for twenty years, played senior club tennis well into his thirties and was a keen keel boat sailor. He was President of Poverty Bay Football Association 1940-61, President NZFA 1960-61, President of Auckland Football Association 1961-87. He represented the Poverty Bay electorate of Gisborne from to 1951, when he was defeated by Harry Dudfield of National, and again from 1954 to 1960, when he was again defeated, this time by the National candidate Esme Tombleson. He then represented the Auckland"
"years, he moved back to Felixstowe in 2014. In 1992 Bill Tancred was awarded an MBE for services to athletics. Bill Tancred William Raymond ""Bill"" Tancred (born 6 August 1942) is a leading sports administrator, academic and former international athlete. He competed at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics in the discus and won a bronze and silver medals in successive Commonwealth Games from 1970 to 1974. He was the British National discus champion on seven occasions and held the British record for 25 years his personal best being 64.94m in 1974. He also competed in the shot put and"
"his amateur status to enable his selection for the Commonwealth Games later that year. He represented Australia in Athletics at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, collecting the Bronze Medal for the 100 yard sprint. The Gregory's source records him as having clocked 9.3 secs for the 100 yards during his athletic career. In 1964 he beat the rugby league speedster Ken Irvine in a A£2,000 match race at Wentworth Park, and in 1966 he won the Australian professional 130m sprint race. Cleary joined the South Sydney Rabbitohs in 1962 along with Jim Lisle his Wallaby three-quarter"
"Olympic Council to the athlete it considers to have given the most outstanding performance at a Games is named in his honour and Kent Hughes's significance to the modern Olympic movement is such that it has been suggested that an oil portrait of Kent Hughes be commissioned and placed in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne. Menzies dropped Kent Hughes from cabinet in 1956, ostensibly because Menzies opposed some of his housing plans for Canberra. However, it was more likely due to Kent Hughes's continued public comments on foreign affairs and defence matters, in which he took an independent line favouring"
"Terence Higgins, Baron Higgins Terence Langley Higgins, Baron Higgins, KBE, DL, PC (born 18 January 1928) is a British Conservative politician and Commonwealth Games silver medalist winner for England. He also competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Higgins was the Member of Parliament for Worthing from 1964 to 1997, and Financial Secretary to the Treasury between 1972 and 1974. He served in the RAF from 1946 to 1948, and was a member of British Olympic Team in 1948 and 1952. He was created a life peer as Baron Higgins, of Worthing in the County of"
"! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1963 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1964 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1965 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1966 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1967 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1968 ! colspan=3| Career ! 92 ! 36 ! 16 ! 691 ! 137 ! 828 ! 215 ! 250 ! 0.4 ! 0.3 ! 11.3 ! 2.2 ! 13.6 ! 3.5 ! 4.9 He won state titles in both Tasmania and Victoria as a sprinter and long jumper. In 1962, at 18 years of age, he represented Tasmania at the National Athletics Championships in Sydney, was a nationally ranked athlete"