Peter Radford

Peter Frank Radford (born 20 September 1939) is a former British sprinter, who competed at 100 and 200 metres (and 100 and 220 yards), broke world records, and won Olympic medals, despite having been seriously ill as a child due to a hole in his kidney.

Biography Running Radford took up competitive running at the age of 12, where he was coached by Bill Marlow, At the age of 18 at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff in July 1958, he came fourth at 100 yards, and 1960 AAA Championships.

Administrator and writer leftFor 12 years from 1965, he lived and worked in Canada and the USA.

Radford wrote a biography of the 19th-century Scottish athlete Robert Barclay Allardice, entitled The celebrated Captain Barclay: sport, money and fame in Regency Britain and published in 2001.

A photograph of him running against Italy, three months before the 1960 Olympics, is featured on the cover of the 2011/2012 BT telephone directory, The Phone Book, for Birmingham North, which covers the home of Birchfield Harriers, Perry Barr Stadium.