641:(APTC) officers and offered by Sheffield University from 1989. No other university had previously accepted military officers in this way in sport studies. This innovation facilitated and opened doors for all APTC personnel to secure places in other higher education institutes to study for masters degrees and diplomas in medical rehabilitation, health studies, sports sciences and sports leadership. He is also a published author, having written a number of books as well numerous articles and has presented papers at conferences in subjects relating to human sports performance, health related fitness and coaching. In November 2016 he published an autobiography and during
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562:(where he achieved the silver medal). He also competed at the 1966, 1969 and 1971 European Championships. Domestically, he set the British discus record on nineteen occasions. He was seven times the AAA Champion having won the AAA discus title from 1966 to 1970 and 1972–1973. His mark of 64.94m in 1974, set in Loughborough on 21 July 1974, was his personal best but his British record was set after this in Woodford on 10 August 1974 at 64.32m. This remained the best thrown by a British athlete until
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develop good motor skills and exercise with laughter and happiness, he decided to launch a similar programme in
England when he returned to help promote healthy lifestyles and curb childhood obesity. He created a name, a cartoon character and delivered many talks around Suffolk to engage children in the programme. With several primary Schools taking up the programme, Bill wrote to the
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officially broke the record in 1997. Tancred remains sixth on the
British all-time list for the discus. He also competed in the shot and remains one of the top ten British shot putters. He won the British National Indoor (AAA) Championships for the shot in 1969 and 1976. Interestingly, he came 3rd in
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British shot putters. Athleticsweekly.com has ranked Tancred as the greatest British discus thrower of all-time by virtue of his long reign as British record-holder and profusion of AAA titles. Bill Tancred was also the first UK athlete to break the 200 ft/61m discus
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Training Academy in Colorado and the Australian Sports Institute in Canberra with a view to recommending that the British Government set up a British Institute of Sport based in Sheffield. His fellowship was to study the development of working relationships between
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Professor Linda Carson from West Virginia University in the US. Professor Carson of the hugely successful Choosey Kids programme (standing for Choose Healthy Options and Start Young). After watching and studying this fun learning experience for young children to
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obesity. He also instigated the then novel idea of having a sports bus to serve many communities across the county and engage pre-school children in fun exercises. This project was designed to reach socially disadvantaged and thus cut off from the bigger facilities in towns and cities..
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was his main event but he developed elbow trouble and was forced to abandon this event. His father, Adrian, believed that this was not a barrier to athletics in another discipline and Bill took up the discus in which his father coached him. After the family moved to
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memories charity and to the cruise industry. As a former pupil at Causton/Maidstone Infant School Felixstowe Suffolk, a school house was named after him in 2022 (Tancred House). Having lived in Sheffield for 30 years, he moved back to
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doctors, coaches, trainers, sport scientists, physiotherapists, and the practitioners of sport. After a year's research and discussion with athletes, education and sports sciences specialists, it was recommended that the
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barrier in 1972, which was also a UK all-comers record for the event (61.94m). Even in 2011 he could still claim to be one of the best all round throwers ever in British Athletics.
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