BILL TANCRED

Bill Tancred is a Professor of Sports and Exercise Science and held senior positions at Sheffield University, Bucks University College and Suffolk University promoting sports conditioning, physical activity and healthy ageing.

He has published a number of books to include Health Related Fitness, Weight Training for Sport, Leisure Management, Olympics 84, Bill Tancred An Ordinary Olympian but what a Life (Autobiography) and Ageing Youthfully -A way of Life.

Bill Tancred was a former Army Physical Training Corps Instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; Graduate of Loughborough University and West Virginia University U.S.A.; Winston Churchill Fellow and an inspirational motivational speaker.

He also represented Great Britain at the 1968 (Mexico) and 1972 (Munich) Olympic Games in the discus event and held the British discus record for 25 years. In addition to this, he has been a coach to the British athletics team and to the International Association of Athletics Federation (World Athletics).

Bill was awarded an MBE in 1992 for Services to Sport.