Basil Dickinson

Basil Dickinson
nation	Australia
birthday	April 25, 1915
place of birth	Queanbeyan ,  Australia
date of death	October 7, 2013
Place of death	Queanbeyan ,  Australia
Career
discipline	Long and triple jump
Medal table
British Empire Games 0 × 0 × 2 ×
British Empire Games bronze 1938 Sydney Long jump bronze 1938 Sydney Triple jump Australian Championship gold 1934 Triple jump gold 1936 Triple jump gold 1937 Long jump

John Basil Charles Dickinson (born April 25, 1915 in Queanbeyan ; † October 7, 2013 there ) was an Australian long and triple jumper .

At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, he came in 16th place in the triple jump.

In 1938 he won bronze in both the long jump and the triple jump at the British Empire Games in Sydney .

He was twice Australian champion in the triple jump (1934, 1936) and once in the long jump (1937).

Personal best

• Long jump: 7.48 m, January 29, 1938, Sydney
• Triple jump: 15.64 m, December 14, 1935, Sydney

Web links

Commons : Basil Dickinson  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Basil Dickinson in the database of Athletics Australia (English)
• Basil Dickinson in the database of trackfield.brinkster.net (English)
• Australia's oldest Olympian Basil Dickinson dies , obituary by Lucy Carter in ABC News , October 9, 2013
• Australian who witnessed Nazi pageantry at Berlin Olympics , obituary by Larry Writer in the Sydney Morning Herald , October 25, 2013
• Basil Dickinson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )