Cecil Griffiths

Cecil Griffiths ( Cecil Richmond Griffiths, born January 20, 1901 in Worcester, † 29 July 1973 in Great Barrington, Gloucestershire ) was a British athlete who in the early 1920s in the 400 - was successful and 800 -meter run.

Griffiths was twice AAA champion over 880 yard:

At the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, he was unable to attend because of illness on the individual race over 400 m. In the British 4 x 400 - meter relay with the British team in the cast Griffiths, Robert Lindsay, John Ainsworth -Davis and Guy Butler, however, he won the gold medal in 3:22,2 minutes ago South Africa ( silver in 3: 24.2 min) and France ( bronze in 3:24,8 minutes).

Also at the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924, he wanted to go to the start, but was excluded at the last minute from participation after it became known that he had taken from a French exhibition organizers money for a start at a skating exhibition.

Griffiths lived in Neath and worked as a bookkeeper in a department store in Edgeware. His coach was Cyril Vowles.