Bob Frith
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 June 1944 Whitton, London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 11 April 2021 (aged 76) Marnhull, Dorset | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Chiswick GS & City University, London | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupations | Optometrist and owner of 12 practices in Middx & Dorset | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Sprints | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Polytechnic Harriers | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Robert Montague Frith (16 June 1944 – 11 April 2021) was an English track and field athlete.
Biography
[edit]Frith's earliest national success saw his Middlesex Schools colleagues, Andrew Ronay, Mick Hauck and the late Barry King, join him in taking the Senior Boys 4x110yards Relay title at the English Schools Championships. Frith was subsequently selected to represent Team GB and England at the international level and won a silver medal at the 1968 European Indoor Games, followed by a bronze at the 1969 competition in Belgrade.
Frith held the world indoor record for 50 metres and was four times National AAA indoor champion over 60 metres.[1]
He represented the England team[2] in the 100 yards,[3] as well as being part of the sprint relay squad, at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica.[4][5]
He was a member of Polytechnic Harriers and latterly the merged (from 1985) Kingston Athletics Club and Polytechnic Harriers. He was also general secretary of the former club from 1972 to 1975.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Your marathon tales". 11 April 2005. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ↑ "Men's team for Empire Games". Bristol Evening Post. 11 July 1966. p. 24. Retrieved 9 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "England Kingston 1966". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 20 September 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2025.
- ↑ "Kingston, Jamaica, 1966 Team". Team England.
- ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- 1944 births
- 2021 deaths
- People from Whitton, London
- Sportspeople from the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
- Alumni of City, University of London
- English men sprinters
- British men sprinters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games athletes for England
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Great Britain
- Medalists at the 1967 Summer Universiade