Leslie Lewis (sprinter)
Leslie Charles "Les" Lewis (26 December 1924 – 7 April 1986) was a British track and field athlete who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Chertsey, Surrey.[1]
In the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, New Zealand he won two silver medals in relays and an individual silver medal in the 440yards.[1]
He later migrated over from England to New Zealand and became a geography and PE teacher.
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- 1934: Germany (Hamann, Scheele, Voigt, Metzner)
- 1938: Germany (Blazejezak, Bues, Linnhoff, Harbig)
- 1946: France (Santona, Cros, Chef d’Hôtel, Lunis)
- 1950: Great Britain (Pike, Lewis, Scott, Pugh)
- 1954: France (Haarhoff, Degats, Martin-du-Gard, Goudeau)
- 1958: Great Britain (Sampson, MacIsaac, Wrighton, Salisbury)
- 1962: West Germany (Kindermann, Schmitt, Reske, Kinder)
- 1966: Poland (Werner, Borowski, Grędziński, Badeński)
- 1969: France (Bertould, Nicolau, Carette, Nallet)
- 1971: West Germany (Schlöske, Jordan, Jellinghaus, Köhler)
- 1974: Great Britain (Cohen, Hartley, Pascoe, Jenkins)
- 1978: West Germany (Weppler, Hofmeister, Herrmann, Schmid)
- 1982: West Germany (Skamrahl, Schmid, Giessing, Weber)
- 1986: Great Britain (Redmond, Akabusi, Whittle, Black)
- 1990: Great Britain (Sanders, Akabusi, Regis, Black)
- 1994: Great Britain (McKenzie, Black, Whittle, Ladejo)
- 1998: Great Britain (Hylton, Baulch, Thomas, Richardson)
- 2002: Great Britain (Deacon, Elias, Baulch, Caines)
- 2006: France (Djhone, M'Barke, Keïta, Raquil)
- 2010: Russia (Dyldin, Aksyonov, Krasnov, Trenikhin)
- 2012: Belgium (Gillet, J. Borlée, Bouckaert, K. Borlée)
- 2014: Great Britain (Rooney, Bingham, Williams, Hudson-Smith)
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