Beryl Randle
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Beryl Randle
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Beryl Randle was a British race walker and an athletics administrator. She raced for Birchfield Harriers. Randle took up competitive walking in 1946, after coming last in a 100-metre sprint, and was coached by Doris Nelson Neal. To train, she would walk from her home in Walsall to her workplace in Digbeth, Birmingham, and back - 18 miles (29 km) each day. On 29 May 1954, she broke the world record for the one-mile walk, with a time of 7 minutes 49 seconds. On 19 June 1954, she shaved over ten se
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British racewalker (1928–2023)
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