Ken Norris (athlete)
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Full name | Kenneth Leonard Norris |
Nationality | British |
Born | 11 July 1931 |
Sport | |
Sport | Long-distance running |
Event | 10,000 metres |
Kenneth Leonard Norris (born 11 July 1931) is a British long-distance runner. He competed in the men's 10,000 metres at the 1956 Summer Olympics.[1] 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'.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ken Norris Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ Brown and Hogsbjerg, Apartheid is not a game, 16
Sources
[edit]- Brown, Geoff and Hogsbjerg, Christian. Apartheid is not a Game: Remembering the Stop the Seventy Tour campaign. London: Redwords, 2020. ISBN 9781912926589.
External links
[edit]- Ken Norris at ARRS
- Ken Norris at Olympedia
- Ken Norris at Team GB
Categories:
- 1931 births
- Living people
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- British male long-distance runners
- Olympic athletes for Great Britain
- Members of Thames Valley Harriers
- People from Hampstead
- Athletes from the London Borough of Camden
- English male long-distance runners
- British athletics biography stubs