About Beryl Randle
Lived 1928 – 2023 (aged 94). Beryl Randle was a British athletics competitor and racewalker.
Beryl E. M. Randle née Beryl Day (16 December 1928 – 28 November 2023) was a British race walker and an athletics administrator.
Biography Day took up competitive walking in 1946, after coming last in a 100-metre sprint, To train, she would walk from her home in Walsall to her workplace in Digbeth, Birmingham, and back - each day. Beryl Day married Ronald Randle in Birmingham during the latter part of 1952 and would compete under her married name of Randle thereafter.
Randle retained her 1 mile walk title at the 1953 WAAA Championships.
On 29 May 1954, she broke the world record for the one-mile walk, with a time of 7 minutes 49 seconds.
Randle was a six-time Midland mile track champion, and three-time Midland road-walking champion. She was subsequently made an Honorary Life Member,
Randle died on 28 November 2023, at the age of 94.
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Who was Beryl Randle?
British race walker
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Beryl Randle was born on 16 December 1928.
When did Beryl Randle die?
Beryl Randle died on 28 November 2023.
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Beryl Randle was an athletics competitor and racewalker.
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Beryl Randle was British.
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