John Salisbury (athlete)

John Salisbury ( John Edward Salisbury, born January 26, 1934 in Birmingham) is a former British athlete. He won an Olympic bronze medal in 1956 with the 4 x 400 - meter relay.

Salisbury joined the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne in the 400 -meter run. Of the three British runners Peter Higgins and Salisbury reached the semi-finals, both retired from there as a fifth of their respective run. The British relay with Salisbury, Michael Wheeler, Higgins and Derek Johnson finished in the final in 3:07,2 minutes in third place behind the seasons from the United States and Australia.

In July 1958 he was at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff over 440 yards in fourth. With the English 4-by- 440- yard relay team in the occupation of Edward Sampson, Johnson, John Wrighton and Salisbury, he won silver behind the relay from South Africa.

A month later found in Stockholm, the European Championships in 1958 instead. In the 400 - meter race won John Wrighton, who had finished fifth in Cardiff, with the British record of 46.3 seconds ahead of Salisbury in a personal best of 46.5 seconds. In the relay, the Scotsman John MacIsaac ran instead of Johnson. In the occupation of Edward Sampson, John MacIsaac, John Wrighton and Salisbury, the British won in 3:07,9 minutes before the torpedoes from the Federal Republic of Germany and Sweden.

John Salisbury is 1.80 m tall and weighed in his playing days 70 kg.

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