British middle-distance runner completed fourth within the 1964 Olympic 1500m ultimate
Alan Simpson, one in all Britain’s prime milers within the Nineteen Sixties, has died.
The 84-year-old from Rotherham narrowly missed out on a medal within the 1964 Olympic 1500m ultimate as he completed fourth behind winner Peter Snell of New Zealand, Josef Odložil of Czechoslovakia and John Davies of New Zealand.
Simpson set British data for 1500m, the mile and 2000m and gained the British one mile title thrice from 1963-65 along with successful the mile on the Inter-Counties 4 occasions.
He additionally ran for England on the Worldwide Cross Nation Championships – the forerunner of the World Cross.
Exterior the Olympics, he was runner-up within the 1966 Commonwealth Video games behind Kip Keino of Kenya and positioned fourth within the 1966 European 1500m ultimate behind Bodo Tümmler, Michel Jazy and Harald Norpoth. A prolific racer, he was famend for his very good dash end.
Alan Simpson (1) (Mark Shearman)
As was the norm on the time, Simpson labored full-time by his athletics profession and typically hitch-hiked from Yorkshire to London to compete within the British capital.
His finest occasions had been 3:39.1 for 1500m, 3:55.7 for the mile, 5:08.0 for 2000m, 8:09.8 for 3000m, 8:43.0 for 2 miles and 13:30.4 for 3 miles.
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In later years he was a long-time supervisor of Rotherham Sports activities Centre.
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