John Folley wins the 10000 metres World Championship in Mar del Plata, Argentina in 1969. Folley was the last British World Champion but there have been many, many more great skaters before and after him. This site is dedicated to all those athletes we regard as...
BRITISH SKATING LEGENDS
Please feel free to contact me with your suggestions for inclusion, along with details you feel are relevant to the skater you would like to see acknowledged here. Additionally, if you want to mail me your own "write up" and photograph of a BRITISH SKATING LEGEND, again feel free to do so and I will do my best to publish it on this website. Please note, though, that as owner of this site any inclusion is entirely at my discretion, as is the editing of any write up that may be submitted. Those items submitted and included here may make reference to the person requesting the inclusion unless anonymity is specifically requested.
DVD INTERVIEWS
A series of personal interviews titled BRITISH SKATING LEGENDS are available on DVD. These are produced free of charge and available to anybody who is interested in seeing what our skating heroes have to say about their time in the sport.
If you are interested, send me your contact details and I shall let you know how you can obtain a copy.
Current availability includes:
JOHN MULLANE - European Champion 1978, 4 x British Champion, British Team 1973 - 1981, 1985
BOB HALFORD - British Team 1948 - 1949, British Team Manager 1969 - 1979
JOHN FOLLEY - World Champion 1969, European Champion 1971, British Team 1967 - 1971
MICK McGEOUGH - European Champion 1978 & 1979, World medallist 1980 & 1981, British Team 1968 - 1982
DANNY KELLY - World Champion 1963, 5 x British Champion, British Team 1958 - 1965
PAT EASON & LEO EASON - (Pat) World medallist 1956 & 1967, European medallist 1967 & 1973, British Team 1954 - 1979 - (Leo) World Champion 1963, 6 x British Champion, British Team 1956 - 1968
LES WOODLEY - World medallist 1953, 1956 & 1962, 12 x British Champion, British Team 1953 - 1962
DENIS HILL - World medallist 1949, 1951 and 1953, 8 x British Champion, British Team 1949 - 1954
DON BROWN - World medallist 1949, 3 x British Champion, British Team 1949 - 1951
RICKY MAY - World silver & bronze medallist 1965, British Champion 1965, British Team 1960 - 1965
BILL SHARMAN - World silver medallist 1965 and 1969, 2 x British Champion, British Team 1964 - 1969
IAN ASHBY - 3 x British TT Champion, British Team 1983, 87, 94 and 95
GRAHAM STEAD - World bronze medallist 1956, British Champion 1956
PAT BARNETT - World medallist 1965 & 1967, World record breaker 1962, British Team 1960 - 1971
PATRICK FEETHAM - World medallist 1975, 4 x British Champion, British Team 1974 - 1980
PATRICIA KIRKHAM - World record breaker 1952, British Team 1953 - 1954
KATHY SMITH - European bronze medallist 1979, 19 x British Champion, British Team 1967 - 1980
CHLOE RONALDSON - World medallist 1962 & 1965, 39 x British Champion, British Team 1960 - 1979
JIMMY REED - European Champion x 3 1936, 11 x British Champion
COMING SOON....
JOHN E. FRY - European Champion 1971, 1978 & 1979, World medallist 1975, British Team 1969 - 1987
ALISON HARTLEY - World bronze medallist 1985, European medallist 1984 - 1987, British Team 1983 - 1987
ALSO PLANNED....
TOM BARTLETT
JOHN DOWNING
JERRY McGRATH
....and many, many more!!!!
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