Michael Rawson

Medal record
Competitor for  United Kingdom
Men’s Athletics
European Championships
Gold	Stockholm 1958	800 metres

Michael Arthur Rawson (26 May 1934 - 26 October 2000)^[1] was a track and field athlete, who represented Great Britain in the men's 800 metres at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. He won the gold medal in that event, two years later at the 1958 European Championships in Stockholm, Sweden. Later that year he won a Bronze meadel in the 800 metres at the Commonwealth games. He represented Birchfield Harries and on his retirement from the sport spent many years coaching at Birchfield and working as an athletics reporter for the BBC and local newspapers.

Mike worked for the British Olympic Association at a number of Olympic games.

He died after a short illness on 26 October 2000 in Birmingham.

References

• British Olympic Committee

1. ^ sports ref retrieved 5th Sept 2010

Persondata
Name	Rawson, Michael
Alternative names
Short description	British athlete
Date of birth	26 May 1934
Place of birth
Date of death	26 October 2000
Place of death

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