Geoff Elliott

Elliott born in Ilford, finished second behind Harry Whittle in the decathlon event at the 1950 AAA Championships.

Elliott represented the Great Britain team at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki in both the pole vault and decathlon events.

Elliott became the British pole vault champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1952 AAA Championships. He would go on to win it again at the 1953 AAA Championships and the 1955 AAA Championships.

He set his personal best in the pole vault (4.30 metres) on 28 August 1954 in Bern.

He represented England and won a gold medal in the pole vault at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada. Four years later, in Cardiff he repeated the success at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. Just before those games, he was one of many signatories in a letter to The Times on 17 July 1958 opposing 'the policy of apartheid' in international sport and defending 'the principle of racial equality which is embodied in the Declaration of the Olympic Games'.