Crew Stoneley
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 May 1911 Leeds, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 27 August 2002 (aged 91) Dorset, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 163 cm (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 51 kg (112 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 400m/440y | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Army/Milocarian AC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Crew Hadlett Stoneley OBE (9 May 1911 – 27 August 2002) was an English athlete who competed for Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics.* [1][2]
Biography
[edit]Stoneley was born in Leeds, educated at Blundell's School and in 1931 received his commission in the British Army.
Stoneley became the national 440 yards champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1932 AAA Championships.[3][4][5]
Shortly afterwards he was selected to represent Great Britain at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, as the leadoff runner in the 4 x 400 metre relay, where he won the silver medal with his teammates Tommy Hampson, David Burghley and Godfrey Rampling. In the 400 metre contest he was eliminated in the semi-finals.
At the 1934 British Empire Games he was a member of the English relay team which won the gold medal in the 4 x 440 yards competition. In the 440 yards event he won the bronze medal.[6]
Stoneley was awarded the OBE. Stoneley retired in 1964 as a Brigadier and served as Colonel Commandant of the Royal Signals. He died in Dorset.
References
[edit]- ^ "Profile". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ^ "Biographical Information". Olympedia. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- ^ "Amateur Athletics Championships". Gloucestershire Echo. 2 July 1932. Retrieved 10 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Fast times in AAA Championships". Reynolds's Newspaper. 3 July 1932. Retrieved 10 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- ^ "London 1934 Team". Team England. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  | This article about an Olympic medallist in athletics of the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This biographical article relating to English athletics is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- 1911 births
- 2002 deaths
- Athletes from Leeds
- People educated at Blundell's School
- English male sprinters
- British male sprinters
- Olympic athletes for Great Britain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1934 British Empire Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Royal Corps of Signals officers
- Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
- 20th-century British Army personnel
- Medallists at the 1934 British Empire Games
- 20th-century English sportsmen
- British athletics Olympic medallist stubs
- English athletics biography stubs