Bill Tancred
British discus thrower
Why Is Bill Tancred Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Raymond Tancred 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 nine occasions [16] and held the British record for 25 years his personal best being 64.94m in 1974. He also competed in the shot put and remains one of the top ten British shot putters. Athleticsweekly.com has ranked Tancred as the greatest British discus thrower of all-time by virtue of his long reign as British record-holder and profusion of AAA titles. Bill Tancred was also the first UK athlete to break the 200 ft./61m. discus barrier in 1972 which was also a UK All-Comers record for the event [4]. Even today he could claim to being the best all round thrower ever in British Athletics.[15].
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