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Born | 18 December 1924 | ||||||||||||||
Died | 26 December 1979 (aged 55) | ||||||||||||||
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John Andrew Savidge (18 December 1924 – 26 December 1979) was a British track and field athlete who specialised in the shot put.
He competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. [1] and finished in sixth place. He was born in Nottingham.
Savidge represented England at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games and won the shot put title with a games record mark of 16.77 m (55 ft 0 in). He was England's first ever champion in the event. [2] He also competed at the European Athletics Championships for Great Britain in 1950 and 1954. [3] [4]
He won the shot put at the AAA Championships for three consecutive years (1952–54). [5]