Nick Whitehead
{{short description|Welsh sprinter}}
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{{Medal|Sport| Men's athletics }}
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{{Medal|Competition| Olympic Games}}
{{Medal|Bronze| 1960 Rome | 4 × 100 m relay}}
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{{Medal|Competition| British Empire and Commonwealth Games }}
{{Medal|Bronze| 1962 Perth | {{nowrap|4 × 110 yd relay}}}}
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Neville Joseph "Nick" Whitehead {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE}} (29 May 1933 – 6 October 2002) was a Welsh sprinter and sports administrator.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nick-whitehead-613841.html |title=Nick Whitehead: Olympic sprinter and influential sports administrator |date=12 October 2002 |newspaper=The Independent |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804101031/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nick-whitehead-613841.html |archivedate=4 August 2009 |url-status=dead }}
Early life and career
Whitehead was born in Wrexham. He competed for Great Britain in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome in the 4 × 100 metres relay where he won the bronze medal with his teammates Peter Radford, David Jones and David Segal. He went on to win a Commonwealth Bronze medal in Perth, Western Australia in 1962 as part of the Welsh Relay Team.
Later work
He would later teach Physical Education at Carnegie Physical Training College in Leeds, now part of Leeds Metropolitan University. He was overall team manager of the British athletics team. He became director of the National Coaching Foundation and eventually Director of Development at the Sports Council for Wales (now Sport Wales). He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1985 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette |issue=49969 |date=31 December 1984 |page=11 |supp=y}} He died, aged 69, in Newport, Pembrokeshire. He had a son Simon and two daughters; Jane and Rachel.
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Category:British male sprinters
Category:Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic athletes for Great Britain
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Wales
Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Sportspeople from Wrexham
Category:Welsh Olympic competitors
Category:Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
Category:Medallists at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
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