Beauchamp Day Explained

Beauchamp Day was an Irish sprinter who was Ireland's championship runner in the early 1910s.[1] [2] [3] He regularly competed at the Australian gold fields of Kalgoorlie; his 1906 defeat there at the hands of Arthur Postle being an event of some notoriety.[2] On 1 April 1907 he recorded a then-world record time for the 400 metre sprint.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Postle, Arthur Benjamin (1881–1965). Australian Dictionary of National Biography. 1988. 16 February 2014. Ross, J. R..
  2. News: Australia's Champion Arthur Postle. Mirror. 19 April 1930. Perth. 7.
  3. Web site: Recreation-Sprinting. Government of Western Australia. 19 February 2014.

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