Donated Athletics Literature

BUTLER, Mark (ed.). IAAF World Indoor Championships: statistics handbooks: 1995, 1997(3), 1999(2).

BUTLER, Mark (ed.). IAAF World Junior Championships: statistics handbooks: 1996, 2000.

BUTLER, Mark (ed.). IAAF World Cup in Athletics: statistics handbook: 1998.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA MEN’S World List 1983.

HUXTABLE, Andrew. British Best Performances of All-time. 1961 edition. (2).

HUXTABLE, Andrew (ed.). United Kingdom Indoor Track and Field Handbook. (3^rd edition – 1971).

HUXTABLE, Andrew. A Statistical History of UK Track & Field Athletics. (1990).

HYMANS, Richard (ed.). ATFS National Statistics: USSR. (1^st edition – 1985).

HYMANS, Richard. ATFS National Statistics: USSR – supplement (June 1986).

IAAF Scoring Table for Men’s Track and Field Events. (1962).

IAAF Intermediate Scoring Table for Men’s 100 Metres, 200 Metres and 110 Metres Hurdles. Supplement to IAAF Men’s Scoring Tables, 1962 edition. (1971) (2).

IAAF BULLETIN, No. 16, July 1975.

IAAF News Supplements: 1993 (March/April), 1997 (August).

IRISH Ranking List 1989 (Liam Hennessy).

LOVESEY, Peter. The Official Centenary History of the Amateur Athletic Association. (1979).

MATTHEWS, Peter, Kraft Olympic Athletics Handbook. (1976).

MENGONI, Luigi. National Athletics Records at 1930, 1940 and 1950. (ATFS, 1980’s).
PHILLIPS, Bob; GYNN, Roger. 100 Years of the Olympic Marathon. (1996).

POLISH ATHLETICS ANNUAL 1988.

QUERCETANI, Roberto L; MENGONI, Luigi. The ATFS European Handbook, 1979 edition. (FIDAL, Rome) (2).

RASMUSSEN, Egon; LASSEN, Palle. The Race Walking World Statistics – Women: 1983.

RIX, Martin; WHITTINGHAM, Rob. British All-time Lists, as at 31/12/1997. (1998). (2).
SCOTTISH Athletics Yearbook 1970

SMITH, Ian R. British Junior All-time Best Performers Annual 1963.

SOUTH AFRICA Athletics Annual 1979.

START (CZE): 1977, No. 3; 1992.

SZRETER, Ryszard. Stars, Standards & Statistics: a track & field miscellany. (1995).
VINKER, Luis. El Atletismo Sudamericano 1993.
WIGLEY, Jon V. (ed.). World Championships in Athletics: statistics handbook 1983.

DUPLICATES – STORAGE.

BOB SPARKS - 3

Various Personal Papers etc.
BOX 1
ATFS material. Membership lists, subscriptions records, correspondence.

NUTS files (3).

UK Athletics Results/Reports. Compiled by Bob Sparks: 1976/77, 1978/79, 1980/81, 1982/83, 1984/85, 1986/87, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992/93, 1994/95, 1996/97, 1998/99.

III Ibero-American Championships, Mexico City, 1988. Correspondence.

Torino, 15/04/1991. Computer material.

World Athletics Census 1991/ Historical Database 1992. IAAF correspondence.

Letter from Primo Nebiolo, 1991 re World Athletics Gala, Monte Carlo, 1991.

Correspondence with Don Potts & Bill Mallon re certain USA performances. 1981 & 1985.

Correspondence with Peter Lovesey and others on biographical data for a number of prominent former athletes.

Wind Gauge measurements. Paper by Bob Sparks (no date).

Stuttgart Media Database Working Group personnel, 1993.

Correspondence with IAAF with Bob Sparks’s statistical report, 1993.

Correspondence with Pierre Dasriaux (European AA) etc. 1993.

World Championships database & information system correspondence. 1993-94.

Correspondence with LWT on TV athletics coverage, 1994.

IAAF Press Commission file, 1994.

IAAF Media Kit, miscellaneous, various meetings.

The Preferred Names process and Info ’96 database.

Letter from Bob Sparks to Palle Lassen which includes detail of disappointing aspects of his stay in Atlanta, 1996.

Transcriptions from Russian (Cyrillic) to English. Correspondence, 1996.

Miscellaneous papers from Kharkov State Institute of Physical Culture re Ukraine names. 1998.

Transcription of names from Greek to English. Correspondence with Thomas Konstas (Greece), 1997.

IAAF correspondence on specifications & miscellaneous correspondence with IAAF (1989-97) re announcing.

Spelling and presentation of various competitors’ names, including Spain & N. Africa. EL Guerrouj particularly examined.

Correspondence with Peter Lovesey and others re L. Atcherley. 1999.
BOX 2
European Championships 1974. Entries, start lists.

World Championships 1983. Results.

World Championships 1993. Start lists etc.

4^th European Cross-country Championships 1997. Entry forms.

European Indoor Championships 1998. Entry forms.

European Championships 1998. Entry forms, start lists, results.

Commonwealth Games 1998. Entry forms.
BOX 3
Intermediate times for some outstanding long distance walking and running records 1870 to 1908. Includes Shrubb and Larner.

AAA & WAAA Indoor Championships 1964. Empire Pool, Wembley. Biographical sheets.

British international indoor meetings 1963 & 1964. Biographical information.

British meetings’ field events score cards. Mainly 1968 & 1978.

Various junior lists 1972.

USSR – Evolution of records, all-time lists, to 1972.

USSR women’s statistics: evolution and all-time lists, 1973.

“Soviet Athletics” by Anatoliy Kashcheyev. An “Athletics Arena” statistical handbook, 1973. Handwritten sheets.

Miscellaneous book and list amendments/queries. Probably re British Athletics 1973.

UK Athletics: corrections to 1974 & 1975 annuals.

UK athletes. Lists of times in important meetings throughout 1975. Handwritten loose sheets.

Olympic Games results 1984. (The Athletics Congress, 1984).

USSR statistics 1984 & 1988. (Photocopies).

Best authentic performances, at 31^st December, 1988.

Canadian outdoor rankings 1989. (Photocopies).

National records of the United Kingdom, at 31^st December, 1989.

World & Continental Records, at 31^st December, 1989.

1990 World Lists compiled by Richard Hymans and Mark Butler on behalf of the IAAF (as at 30^th July).

Records set in 1990 – international.

Best indoor performances: World, European, Commonwealth & UK, as at March, 1991.

New Zealand top 10 lists 1991, compiled by Barry S. Hunt.

European Record lists 1992. (Covering letter dated 14/1/1993).

Sub-4 minute mile correspondence & statistics. (1995).

British Rankings 1996.

Major meetings 1961-1997.

Birmingham track records, UK records, AAA & UK CBP’s. (1997).

Mile statistics at 31^st December, 1997.

Miscellaneous correspondence from Ian Smith re 1 Mile statistics. (1996 & 1998).

Greece rankings etc., 1998.

UK Olympic Athletes (c.2000). Supplement to “British Olympians” by Ian Buchanan (1991).

European Women’s recordsa progression. (2001).

World, European & UK records (indoors), as at 31^st March, 2002.

1500metres/1 mile conversion factors.

AAA champions 1880-.

AAA medallists since 1945 – track events.

International athletes’ biographical data file.

Women’s middle distance statistics (mainly).

Note-book. Progressive world records (to 1958) & British records (to 1965).

Note-book. Miscellaneous contents.
BOX 4
Olympic Games, Mexico City, 1968. Complete results.

Olympic Games, Montreal, 1976. Box-file containing programme, daily inserts, start lists, “Leichtathletik” results edition, 2 “Athletics Weekly”

Results editions.

IAAF World Cup results: 1977, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1989.

Olympic Games, Los Angeles, 1984. Box-file containing results.

1998 competitions. In box-file:

(i) Europa Cup Super League, St. Petersburg. Entries.

(ii) Europa Cup 1^st League, Budapest. Entries, start lists and results.

(iii) IAAF 7^th World Junior Championships, Annecy. Results.

(iv) IAAF 8^th World Cup, Johannesburg. Start lists and results.

Olympic Games 1948. 200 metres women 3^rd place error (Shirley Strickland). Correspondence and prints.

Some photo-finish prints from all Olympic Games 1948-1968.

Sundry films 1950’s to 1980’s.

Photo-finish prints from Olympic Games 100 metres: 1952, 1956, 1960.

Auto-timings for Olympic Games: 1952, 19567, 1960.

Auto-timings, compiled by Bob Sparks for Olympic Games 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968; Pan-American Games 1955; CAC Games 1954, 1959;

Asian Games 1962; Commonwealth Games 1966, 1974.

Photo prints. CAC Games: 1954, 1959.

Photo prints. European Championships: 1954, 1978.

Photo prints. Pan-American Games: 1955.

Photo-finish recordings at British Empire & Commonwealth Games 1958.

Photo prints. Asian Games: 1962.

Olympic Games 1968. Photo-finish prints for most events. (in 19 large envelopes).

Olympic Games 1968. Prints of 4 x 400 metres final.

Olympic Games 1968. Further prints for 10000m and a few other events.

Olympic Games 1976. Photo-finish print of men’s 4 x 100 metres and a few results.

Photo prints. IAAF 1^st World Cup, 1977.

Photo-finish timing corrections: 1977-79.

Photo-finish material. AAA Championships, 1978 – 10000 metres.

Photo-finish errors. 1979.

Correspondence with Omega Sports Timing (1980) re Olympic 10000 metres 1968.

Olympic Games 1980. Timing.

Correspondence and films re. timekeeping 1982-1984.

Olympic Games 1984. Correspondence re. timing of the marathon.

Photo-finish adjustments, especially Daley Thompson.

Correspondence and films re. Steve Cram’s world mile record in 1985.

Summary of time-recording policy at the Olympic Games, 1948-1984.

Olympic Games 1988. Correspondence re. timing of the 5000 metres.

Scottish AAA 10000 metres photo-finish. (no date).

14-15/6/1980. UK Championships. Crystal Palace.

27/6/1980. SCAAA Talbot Games.

5-6/7/1980. SCAAA Championships.

8/8/1980. Coco Cola meeting.

15-16/8/1980. WAAA Championships.

24-25/5/1981. UK Championships. Antrim.

26-27/6/1981. SCAAA Championships.

31/7/1981. Talbot Games.

10/2/1982. GBR v BEL (men) & GBR v NED (women) (indoors).

13/3/1982. ENG v USA (indoors).

18-19/6/1982. GBR v BEL v GDR.

17/7/1982. ENG v KEN v JAP v ESP.

24-25/7/1982. AAA Championships.

30-31/7/1982. WAAA Championships.

4/8/1982. SCAAA v Combined Services v British Police v Achilles Club.

14/8/1982. GBR v FRG (juniors). Event programme included.

20/8/1982. Talbot Games.

30/8/1982. Heinz British Games.

12/2/1983. GBR v FRA. Cosford.

12/3/1983. ENG v USA (indoors).

28-29/1/1983. AAA & WAAA Indoor Championships.

5/6/1983. GBR v USSR.

1/7/1983. ENG v POL v AUT v BEL.

2-3/7/1983. SCWAAA Championships.

9-10/7/1983. AAA Decathlon Championships.

31/8/1983. ENG v SCO v NOR v HUN.

13-14/1/1984. AAA & WAAA Indoor Championships.

1-2/6/1984. SCAAA Championships.

17/6/1984. British League, Division 1.

23-24/6/1984. AAA Championships.

14-15/6/1985. SCAAA Championships.

19-20/7/1985. Talbot Games.

21-22/3/1986. AAA & WAAA U20 Indoor Championships.

6/8/1986. SCAAA v Welsh AAA v Combined Services v Achilles Club.

8/8/1986. IAC Miller Lite meeting.

24-25/5/1987. UK Championships.

20/6/1987. ENG v CZE v ITA (men) & ENG v CZE v BUL (women).

27/6/1987. GBR v FRG v POL (juniors). Ipswich.

10/7/1987. Peugeot Talbot Games.

Gateshead meeting (29/6).

ENG v USA (27/6); SCAAA U20 (19/7); GBR v Commonwealth (5/8); IAC Miller Lite meeting (8/8); SCAAA U20 Inter-Area (14/9).

Kodak Classic (13/6).

Statistical biographies and major championship results from 1970’s.

Various world championships 1983-1992.

5^th IAAF World Indoor Championships. Barcelona, 1995. Start lists.

IAAF World Championships 1995. Entries and start lists.

National record lists file, c.1996.

World Indoor Championships 1997 file.
BOX 9
European Championships 1969. Start lists, some results.

European Championships 1969: jumps, 20 km. walk, 10000m. information.

Olympic Games, Munich 1972. Results (3 folders).

Commonwealth games 1974. Full results.

European Championships 1974. Full results.

GB internationals 1975. Result sheets.

GB internationals 1976. Result sheets.

7^th European Cup 1979, Turin. Press information booklet: entries, statistics.

Women’s world championships, Sittard, 1980. Results.

Commonwealth Games 1986. Results.

Olympic Games 1988. Complete results (photocopied from Athletics Weekly).

“Leichtathletik”, 1988-97. 13 files of photo-copies.

BLE (Ireland results – 22/7/1989.

3^rd IAAF World Junior Championships, Plovdiv, 1990. Results.

Olympic Games, Barcelona, 1992. Folder.

4^th IAAF World championships, Stuttgart, 1993. 4 x 400 metres races results.

President Select v South of England v BLE Select, Dublin, 18/6/1994. Results.

Ireland v North of England v Russia, 25/6/1994. Results.

European Championships, 1994. Results sheets.

World Championships (1995?). 4 x 400 metres splits.

Sensormatic Cork City Sports, 22/6/1996.

Olympic Games, Atlanta, 1996. Men’s & women’s marathon results.

BUPA Indoor Grand Prix, Birmingham, 23/2/1997. Official results.

BUPA British Championships, Birmingham, 11-13/7/1997. Results.

Spar British Challenge, Crystal palace, 17/8/1997. Official results.

AAA Championships, Birmingham, 24-25/8/1997. Start lists & official results.

AAA Championships, Birmingham, 24-26/7/1998. Programme, start lists & results.

BUPA Indoor Grand Prix, Birmingham, 14/2/1999. Results.

Loughborough University v England (and others), Loughborough, 23/5/1999. Results.

AAA Championships, Birmingham, 23-25/7/1999. Start lists & results.

CGU British Grand Prix, Crystal Palace, 7/8/1999. Programme, start lists & results.

7^th IAAF World Championships, Seville, 1999. Results sheets.

Norwich Union British Grand Prix, Crystal Palace, 5/8/1999. Start lists & results.

AAA Championships, Birmingham, 11-13/8/2000. Programme, start lists & results.

AAA Championships, Birmingham, 13-15/7/2001. Full results.
BOX 10
Meetings’ films, usually in tins:
1975: B.I.G. (31/5), Southern Champs; Southern Counties v PE Colleges (1/6), Southern WAAA Champs (7-8/6), AAA v Borough Road College (11/6); Counties Athletic Union Champs, Pye Cup final, Phillips International (4/7); AAA Champs, WAAA Champs, Europa Cup semi-final; BAAB Decathlon (3-4/5), UK v USSR (24-25/8), IAC Coca-Cola meeting (29/8), UK v SWE (13-14/9).

1976: Southern Counties v RAF v Borough Road College (5/5), Kraft Games (4-5/6); WAAA Champs (20-21/8), AAA v Borough Road Coll. (26/5); AAA Champs, Southern Counties v Loughborough Colls. v Oxford Univ. (28/4), IAC Coca-Cola meeting (6/8), UK v POL v CAN (3-4/7); Southern Champs (18-19/6), CAU Champs (30-31/5); WAAA Pentathlon & Relays (18/9), Debenhams Games (17/9).

1977: WAAA Champs, Phillips Silver meeting (18/5); Debenhams Games (25-26/7), Europa Cup semi-final (16-17/7), UK v FRG (28-29/8); Southern Champs (17-18/6), IAC Coca-Cola meeting; AAA Champs (22-23/7); Edinburgh Highland Games (20/8).

1978: Phillips meeting (24/5), Southern Champs (2-3/6); WAAA Trials (17-18/6); AAA Champs (23-24/6); Southern WAAA Champs (22-23/7); WAAA Champs.

1979: Phillips meeting (16/5), Southern WAAA Champs (2-3/6); AAA Champs (13-14/7), WAAA Champs, UK Champs (11-12/8); WAAA Pentathlon & Relays (16/6); ENG v BEL v NOR v SCO (10/6), UK v FRA (B) (30/6), Europa Cup semi-final (1/7); WAAA Champs (27-28/7); ENG v POL v SUI (27/8); SCAAA Champs (17-18/8); Rotary Games (31/8); GRE Cup (1/9), Amoco Games (8-9/9), IAC Coca-Cola meeting (14/9), UK v URS (22-23/9).

1980: ENG v BEL v SCO v SWE (21/5); WAAA Pentathlon (24/5); Cwmbran (25-26/5); SCAAA Champs (4-7/6); UK Champs (14-15/6); Talbot Games (27/6); UK 800m & 1500m (21/6); Amoco Games (13/7); WAAA Champs (15-16/8); British Meat games (25/8), AAA Junior Champs (2-3/8); IAC Coca-Cola meeting (8/8); ENG v SCO v YUG v NOR (31/8); AAA Champs (5-6/9); UK v SWE (12-13/9).

1981: UK Champs (24-25/5); Phillips International (3/6); UK v POL v FRG (23-24/6); SCAAA Champs (26-27/6); UK v URS (17-18/7); WAAA Champs (24-25/7); Gateshead Games (26/7); Talbot Games (31/7); AAA Decathlon (1-2/8); Combined Events European Cup (29-30/8); IAC Coca-Cola meeting (11/9); GRE Cup Finals (19-20/9).

1982: ENG v USA v SWE v AUS (9/6); UK v GDR v BEL (18-19/6); Southern Champs (19-20/6); Southern Junior Champs (26-27/6); WAAA Relays (3/7); ENG v JAP v KEN v ESP (17/7); AAA Champs (24-25/7); WAAA Champs (30-31/7); Iveco International (31/7); AAA Junior (31/7-1/8); Welsh Games (11-12/8); UK v FRG Junior (14/8).

1983: ENG v POL (1/7); Talbot Games (15/7); Southern WAAA Champs; Europa Cup (20-21/8); Nike Classic (29/8).

1984: GBR v FRG Indoors (9/2); ENG v USA Indoors (10/3); HFC meeting (27-28/5); Southern Champs (1-2/6); AAA Champs (23-24/6); Rank Xerox Games (6/7); U20 Champs (11-12/8); Nike Classic (18/8).

1985. AAA/WAAA Champs Indoors (25-26/1); Southern Champs (14-15/6); GBR v CZE v FRA (29/6); GBR v GDR v JAP (6-7/7); AAA Champs (13-14/7); Talbot Games (19-20/7); ENG v CZE v HUN v POL (26/8).

BOX 11
Decathlon Tables 1912. Includes copies of a Swedish publication from 1917.

“Are Athletes Machines?” Article by A.V. Hill in “Scientific American”, August, 1927.

USSR Scoring Tables 1928. (Photocopy).

1930 German tables for Women’s pentathlon. (Photocopy).

1935 International 100 points scoring tables for women). (Photocopy).

German Scoring Tables 1943. Copies from a German publication.

Metric – Imperial conversion tables. (Photocopies).

Scoring tables – 3 files. (No dates).Timekeeping. Correspondence and auto-times from numerous events. (Large concertina file).

Formulae for IAAF Combined Events scoring system + miscellaneous papers.

Authentic times for post-war Olympic Games with automatic timing.

Fully-automatic photo-finish timings from 1952, 1956 & 1960 Olympic Games.

Major meetings with photo-finish, 1958-61.

60 metres indoor events. Scoring tables’ proposals.

European Cup Final, Munich, 1997. Results & photo-finish prints.

Timing correspondence, including letter from Don Potts & Bob Hersch (20/12/1979).

Correspondence re. OMEGA timing (1984 & 1991).

1984 Combined Events Competitions scoring tables. Photocopied extract of text, not including the tables.

Decathlon Progressive Records correspondence, including letter to Don Potts, 14/12/1984.

Miscellaneous correspondence with Fulvio Regli etc. re. Women’s Pentathlon. (991984-87).

“A statistician’s nightmare” re. Combined Events records and scoring tables (1985).

“Point-by-point commentaries on IAAF edition of scoring tables for Men’s and Women’s Combined Events Competitions (approved in 1984)”, by Rooney Magnusson. (1986).

“The 1985 IAAF Decathlon Scoring Tables: an attempt at analysis”, by Gunter Tidow.

Correspondence, including with Alan Lindop (1985), re. 60 metres scoring tables.

IAAF Combined Events’ Scoring Tables correspondence, 1989, especially with Howard Willman, USA.

Auto-times, Patinaud lists, etc.

Lists of various UK and England records. Letter from BAF to Bob Sparks.

Timekeeping correspondence (electrical timing).

Current/former world records, Decathlon, at 1^st June, 1993.

Barcelona 1995: national indoor best performances. (Loose-leaf file).

IAAF official handbook – names list (10/2/1995). (Loose-leaf file).
BOX 12
World Cup results, 1977-1989.

World Indoor Championships, 1985-1991.

Olympic games, Seoul, 1988. Results.

IAAF World Junior Athletics Championships, Plovdiv, 1990. Final results.

European Championships, Split, 1990. Start lists, results + a little correspondence.

3^rd IAAF World Indoor Championships, Seville, 1991. Start lists and statistics.