About Cliff Stone
Lived 1906 – 1969 (aged 62–63). Cliff Stone was a Canadian athlete.
Clifford Stone (1906 – April 1969) was a middle- and long-distance runner from Newfoundland. He was born in Fogo, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland Colony. Stone was the winner of The Evening Telegram Ten-Mile Road Race each year from 1926 to 1932, and set a race record of 52:58 in 1929 which stood for forty years.
Stone represented Newfoundland at the 1930 British Empire Games and held Newfoundland records for the half-mile, one-mile, five-mile and ten-mile distances. He was a member of the Newfoundland team that placed first in the Maritime competition on two occasions.
Stone was denied a chance to compete in the Olympics as the Dominion of Newfoundland lacked a National Olympic Committee.
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Who was Cliff Stone?
newfoundlander competitive runner
When was Cliff Stone born?
Cliff Stone was born in 1906.
When did Cliff Stone die?
Cliff Stone died in 1969.
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Cliff Stone was an athlete.
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Cliff Stone was Canadian.
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