Geoff Elliott

For the Australian footballer, see Geoff Elliott (footballer).

Geoff Elliott

Personal information
Nationality	British (English)
Born	7 April 1931 Ilford, England
Died	12 October 2014(2014-10-12) (aged 83) Calgary, Alberta
Height	179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	decathlon/pole vault/shot put
Club	Woodford Green AC
Medal record Athletics Representing England British Empire and Commonwealth Games Gold medal – first place 1954 Vancouver pole vault Gold medal – first place 1958 Cardiff pole vault

Geoffrey Michael Elliott (7 April 1931 – 12 October 2014) was a pole vaulter, shot putter and decathlete from England who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Biography

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'.

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
1954	European Championships	Bern, Switzerland	3rd	Pole vault
	British Empire and Commonwealth Games	Vancouver, Canada	1st	Pole vault
			8th	Shot put
1958	British Empire and Commonwealth Games	Cardiff, Wales	1st	Pole vault

References

• Brown, Geoff and Hogsbjerg, Christian. Apartheid is not a Game: Remembering the Stop the Seventy Tour campaign. London: Redwords, 2020. .
• British Olympic Committee Archived 24 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine