Track Stats

Worldwide Athletics Facts and Figures

This is the quarterly bulletin of the NUTS which has been published since 1963. It was originally named NUTS Notes and changed its name to Track Stats in 1982. It is an A5 booklet with usually 68 pages per edition. Its coverage extends to the history and statistics of athletics worldwide, and ideas for articles are welcomed by the editor. To subscribe, you simply need to join the NUTS.

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Forthcoming Articles

  • Henry Whately, John Pendlebury
  • Pole Vault special - Billy Olson, Charles Hoff, Geoff Elliott
  • 1948 Olympians - Noemi Simonetto
  • Sub-Four Register Updated
  • Chi Cheng, ace Asian all-rounder
  • John Savidge, pioneering British shot-putter
  • Duncan White, celebrating Ceylonese independence
  • John Greasley, British javelin record holder
  • More Progressive UK All-Time Top Tens
  • British women in the T&FN merit rankings
  • Mary Rand's complete career record
  • Canadian marathon runners - Wood, Lawson, Wyer, Cuthbert, O'Reilly, Webster, Rankine
  • American steeplechasers - McCluskey, Manning Lochner
  • Triple Olympic track finalist for the USA, Ray Watson
  • The toughs and toffs of the British team


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Index to Volumes 31-46 of Track Stats (1993-2008) (93KB)

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2013 Editions

Volume 51, No. 2, April 2013

  • Editorial: Lessons we can learn from the 50th Kenyan
  • No hard slogging. An easier frame of mind. Harry Whittle, the enigmatic hurdler - Bob Phillips
  • “His long stride and winged footfall steadily coming on, and soon out of reach” (Angus Scott)
  • Lamenting a lost event: the 220 yards hurdles
  • The career of Ann Packer - Peter Matthews
  • Two unsung heroes of European high jumping (Jesper Torring, Jacques Madubost) - Thomas S. Hurst
  • Harold Tarraway: the Olympic 800 metres, then a lifetime of teaching and coaching - Bob Phillips
  • Britain’s fated half-milers of 1939 (Guy Wethered, Austin Littler) - A. Ballard Peck
  • The 1924 Olympic 10,000 metres walk - Jacques Carmelli
  • The “guardsman” who conquered Berlin. Then, to celebrate, kippers for tea (Harold Whitlock) - David Thurlow
  • Women’s 5000 metres statistics - K. Ken Nakamura
  • Haltwhistle, not Wembley! The first metric track to be built in Britain
  • When Franco’s guns stopped the Games (The 1936 Workers’ Olympiad) - Bob Phillips
  • Go-as-you-please. George Cartwright’s races from 1879 to 1889 - Oscar Vecchi
  • Book Reviews (the IAAF’s centenary, John Bale’s autobiography, the 1908 Olympics, the Women’s AAA history, Manfred Holzhausen’s record-breakers)
  • The life of Sam Mussabini - Dave Terry
  • When the Oxford ladies celebrated peace-time in Holland

Volume 51, No. 1, January 2013

  • 43 races, 74 records! The year that made Gordon Pirie a household name
  • The other South London Harrier of the 1950s – the one who achieved Empire gold (Peter Driver) - David Thurlow
  • “It was a tremendous occasion; Having watched athletics in some 35 countries for 60 years, I can honestly say that I have never witnessed anything like it.” (London 2012) - Stan Greenberg
  • Sidney Robinson, multi Olympic medallist of 1900 - Andrew Huxtable
  • A Blue Plaque for Arthur Wint - John Parlett
  • The 1928 AAA decathlon, the 1948 Olympic Games decathlon and All-Comers’ records - Rooney Magnusson
  • A Grand National, a tour de force, a wonderful success – well, almost – and 90 years later Sam would still have been 5th! (Liverpool marathons) - Bob Phillips
  • Early British marathon men - Alex Wilson
  • Two of Britain’s leading women athletes of the 1920s (Hilda Hatt, Mary Lines) - Thomas S. Hurst
  • International competition for women in Monte Carlo in 1922 - John W. Brant
  • Would Farah win the fantasy five and ten? David Thurlow
  • A knee-jerk reaction - John Bromhead
  • Deprived of a World record. Denied an Olympic place. The sad tale of Cliff Blair - Jacques Carmelli
  • Other American Hammer men of the 1950s - Don M. Groome
  • Book reviews (History of the Women’s AAA, The life of 19th Century walker Edward Payson Weston, Mike Fleet’s autobiography) - Bob Phillips, Peter Lovesey
  • Renewing an old rivalry: Great Britain v France 1945 to 1951 - Colin Allan
  • “As near perfection as perfection can be approached”. A British-born champion for Canada at the 1912 Olympics (George Goulding) - S.F. Wise, Douglas Fisher
  • Britain’s other expatriate Olympic winners
  • Taking a stroll through the Hall of Fame - Bob Phillips
  • A dazzling swerve and side-steps: the singular style of the regular relay racer (Jack Gregory) - A. Ballard Peck