Roger Leigh-Wood
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| Nationality | British (English) | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 August 1906 Paddington, London, England | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | 1 March 1987 (aged 80) Alton, England | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
| Event | 440y/400m/hurdles | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | University of Oxford | |||||||||||||||||
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Roger Leigh-Wood (né Wood, 16 August 1906 – 1 March 1987) was an English athlete who competed for Great Britain in the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Biography
[edit]Leigh-Wood was born in Paddington, London. He finished third behind Douglas Lowe in the 440 yards event at the 1927 AAA Championships.[1][2][3]
He finished second behind Douglas Lowe again in the 440 yards event at the 1928 AAA Championships.[4][5] Shortly afterwards he represented Great Britain at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where he was a member of the British relay team which finished fifth in the 4×400 metre relay event. In the 400 metres competition he was eliminated in the quarter-finals.
At the 1930 British Empire Games he won the gold medal with the English team in the 4×440 yards relay contest and the silver medal in the 440 yards hurdles event.
he died in Alton.
References
[edit]- ^ "An Olympiad". Weekly Dispatch (London). 3 July 1927. Retrieved 4 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Records go abroad". Western Daily Press. 5 July 1927. Retrieved 4 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
- ^ "Peltzer fails to come back". London Daily Chronicle. 7 July 1928. Retrieved 5 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Champions of the AAA". Daily News (London). 9 July 1928. Retrieved 5 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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