Raymond Barkway
ran the 110M high hurdles for Great Britain in the 1948 London Olympics
Raymond Charles Barkway (24 August 1924 – 1 July 1956) ran the 110M high hurdles for Great Britain in the 1948 London Olympics.
Biography
Barkway was born in Uxbridge, England and was educated at Watford Grammar School and Exeter College, Oxford gaining his blue in 1948.
While coaching at Loughborough College during Summer School, he represented the Great Britain team at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, where he competed in the 110 metres hurdles event.
Barkway finished second behind Peter Hildreth in the 120 yards hurdles event at the 1950 AAA Championships.
In 1951, Barkway won a bronze medal at the World Student Games in Luxembourg. Barkway was a physical education teacher at Clifton College, Bristol and fired the starting pistol when Roger Bannister famously broke the Four-minute mile in 1954.
He was killed aged only 31 years old, when his Royal Navy Avenger Torpedo Bomber crashed, he was piloting it for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
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