Rene Howell
{{short description|British middle-distance runner}}
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| nationality = British (English)
| sport = Middle-distance running
| event = Steeplechase
| club = Polytechnic Harriers
| birth_date = {{birth date|1916|12|19|df=yes}}
| birth_place = West Ham, London, England
| death_date = {{death year and age|1989|1916}}
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Rene William Howell (19 December 1916 – 1989) was a British middle-distance runner who competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/rene-howell-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418035726/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/rene-howell-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Rene Howell Olympic Results |accessdate=19 November 2017}}
Biography
Howell, a civil service clerical officer by trade, served with the Queen's Royal Regiment durin World War I. After the war he joined the Polytechnic Harriers, following spells with the Victoria Park Harriers and Tower Hamlets Athletics Club and the Finchley Harriers.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69168 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=12 April 2025}}
Howell secured the Essex County Championships, Southern Counties steeplechase title and Inter-County Championships before going into the 1948 season. Howell finished third behind Peter Curry in the 2 miles steeplechase event at the 1948 AAA Championships.{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=12 April 2025}}{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/aaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (men) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=12 April 2025}} Shortly after the AAAs, Howell represented the Great Britain team at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, where he competed in the men's 3000 metres steeplechase event, finishing 7th in heat three.
Howell would later finish third behind Petar Šegedin at the 1951 AAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000844/19510715/108/0014 |title=Bannister's mile tops a day of records |work=Sunday Mirror |date=15 July 1951 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=15 July 2024}}
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Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Category:British male middle-distance runners
Category:British male steeplechase runners
Category:Olympic athletes for Great Britain
Category:Athletes from the London Borough of Newham
Category:People from Essex (before 1965)
Category:English male middle-distance runners
Category:20th-century English sportsmen
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