1984 UK Athletics Championships

The 1984 UK Athletics Championships was the national championship in outdoor track and field for the United Kingdom held at Cwmbran Stadium, Cwmbran. It was the third time the event was held in the Welsh town, following on from its hosting in 1977 and 1982. The competition was affected by heavy winds that year, particularly the jumps and sprints.

1984 UK Athletics Championships
Host city	Cwmbran, Wales
Venue	Cwmbran Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
← 1983 1985 → UK Athletics Championships

It was the eighth edition of the competition limited to British athletes only, launched as an alternative to the AAA Championships, which was open to foreign competitors. However, due to the fact that the calibre of national competition remained greater at the AAA event, the UK Championships this year were not considered the principal national championship event by some statisticians, such as the National Union of Track Statisticians (NUTS). Many of the athletes below also competed at the 1984 AAA Championships.[1][2]

Fatima Whitbread won her fourth consecutive women's javelin throw UK title, while Aston Moore won his third straight men's triple jump title. Aside from Moore, four men successfully defended their 1983 titles and Peter Elliott (1500 metres), Keith Stock (pole vault), Derrick Brown (long jump) and Peter Yates (javelin). Venissa Head was the only woman to defend her title, doing so in the discus throw. Heather Oakes was the only athlete to win multiple UK titles, taking the women's 100 metres and 200 metres to repeat a feat she had achieved five years previously.[1]

The main international track and field competition for the United Kingdom that year was the 1984 Olympic Games. Reflecting the secondary nature of the UK competition and the fact it was not used as the Olympic trial event, only one of the 14 British individual Olympic medallists took a UK title that year – Fatima Whitbread. British Olympic relay medallists Simmone Jacobs, Heather Oakes and Kriss Akabusi were present at the UK Championships, however.[3][4]

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +4.5 m/s)	Mike McFarlane	10.08 w	Buster Watson	10.12 w	Donovan Reid	10.17 w
200 metres	Todd Bennett	20.36	Donovan Reid	20.62	Gus McCuaig	20.86
400 metres	Kriss Akabusi	46.10	Roy Dickens	46.19	Alan Slack	46.49
800 metres	Peter Elliott	1:46.08	Rob Harrison	1:46.43	Gareth Brown	1:46.48
1500 metres	Alan Salter	3:43.31	Steve Martin	3:43.42	David Lewis	3:43.58
5000 metres	Eamonn Martin	13:32.11	Geoff Turnbull	13:33.86	Steve Harris	13:39.95
10,000 metres	Nick Rose	28:00.70	Steve Jones	28:12.51	Julian Goater	28:13.02
110 m hurdles (wind: +2.7 m/s)	Hughie Teape	13.98 w	Wilbert Greaves	14.09 w	Paul Brice	14.27 w
400 m hurdles	Martin Briggs	50.97	Phil Beattie	51.35	Stan Devine	51.67
3000 metres steeplechase	Paul Davies-Hale	8:33.16	Tony Blackwell	8:40.58	Ken Baker	8:48.05
10,000 m walk	Phil Vesty	40:53.60	Martin Rush	41:49.63	Richard Dorman	43:34.50
High jump	Alex Kruger	2.15 m	Rupert Charles	2.15 m	David Abrahams	2.10 m
Pole vault	Keith Stock	5.35 m	Jeff Gutteridge	5.30 m	Billy Davey	5.00 m
Long jump	Derrick Brown	7.71 m w	Trevor Hoyte	7.69 m w	Fred Salle	7.57 m w
Triple jump	Aston Moore	16.80 m	Eric McCalla	16.74 m	John Herbert	16.53 m
Shot put	Billy Cole	17.57 m	Mark Aldridge	17.07 m	Nick Tabor	16.95 m
Discus throw	Paul Mardle	59.70 m	Peter Gordon	58.10 m	Graham Savory	56.90 m
Hammer throw	Dave Smith	72.34 m	Paul Dickenson	69.98 m	Paul Head	63.46 m
Javelin throw	Peter Yates	82.54 m	Marcus Humphries	75.34 m	Simon Osborne	75.34 m

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +3.8 m/s)	Heather Oakes	11.08 w	Shirley Thomas	11.13 w	Simmone Jacobs	11.26 w
200 metres (wind: +2.1 m/s)	Heather Oakes	23.00 w	Simmone Jacobs	23.01 w	Shirley Thomas	23.14 w
400 metres	Jane Parry	53.46	Tracy Lawton	53.73	Joslyn Hoyte-Smith	53.76
800 metres	Christina Boxer	2:01.64	Jane Finch	2:01.73	Lorraine Baker	2:02.11
1500 metres	Zola Budd	4:04.39	Lynne MacDougall	4:10.80	Suzanne Morley	4:13.89
3000 metres	Christine Benning	8:56.79	Angela Tooby	8:59.69	Susan Tooby	9:11.05
5000 metres	Angela Tooby	15:27.56	Susan Tooby	15:35.40	Yvonne Murray	15:50.54
100 m hurdles (wind: +4.5 m/s)	Pat Rollo	13.12 w	Heather Ross	13.22 w	Wendy Jeal	13.41 w
400 m hurdles	Gladys Taylor	58.2	Wendy Griffiths	58.2	Simone Gandy	58.76
5000 m walk	Jill Barrett	23:53.13	Nicky Jackson	24:02.15	Helen Elleker	24:04.84
High jump	Diana Elliott	1.90 m	Judy Simpson	1.84 m	Louise Manning	1.84 m
Long jump	Sue Hearnshaw	7.00 m w	Joyce Oladapo	6.54 m w	Georgina Oladapo	6.51 m w
Shot put	Judy Oakes	17.94 m	Myrtle Augee	16.68 m	Yvonne Hanson-Nortey	14.48 m
Discus throw	Venissa Head	57.44 m	Lynda Whiteley	51.20 m	Karen Pugh	49.56 m
Javelin throw	Fatima Whitbread	65.44 m	Sharon Gibson	58.78 m	Diane Royle	58.42 m

References

1. UK Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
2. AAA WAAA and National Championships Medalists. NUTS. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
3. Olympic Games (Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
4. Olympic Games (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-03-06.