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Willie Applegarth made his debut in the AAA Championships in 1910 when, as a 20-year-old Post Office worker representing Polytechnic Harriers, he finished third in the 100 yards. Two years later he won the 200 yards and finished second in the 100 yards, and these performances won him a place in the 1912 Olympic team in both the individual sprints and the relay. Applegarth was eliminated in the semi-finals for the 100 metres in Stockholm, but after some great running the early stages of the 200 metres final he held on the take the bronze medal; then as lead-off man, he put Britain on their way to the gold medals in the relay. He maintained his brilliant form in post-Olympic meetings, setting a world best of 19.8 seconds for 200 yards and equaling the world 100 metres records of 10.6 seconds. He also claimed a new British record of 21.8 seconds for 200 yards and equaled the British 100 yards record of 9.8 seconds. In 1913 he twice equaled his British 100 yards record and set a world best of 14.6 seconds for 150 yards, but the highlight of the season came at the AAA Championships where he had become the first home athlete to take the sprint double. His winning time of 21.6 seconds in the 200 yards was yet another British record. 1914 was Applegarth’s last season as an amateur, and after equaling his own British records in both the 100 yards and 200 yards he won his second AAA double, with the finest performance of his career coming in the 200 yards as he set a world record of 21.2, which was to remain unbeaten for 18 years.

In November 1914, Applegarth turned profession and twice beat the Australian Jack Donaldson, the reigning “world champion.” He continued to run as a “pro” after the war but in 1922 he immigrated to America, where he took up an appointment as a soccer and track coach at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania. During his early days in the US he played for Brooklyn in the American Soccer League and took part in a few exhibition races. On one notable occasion, at Fordham University, he beat Robert McAllister who was one of the leading American sprinters of the time. Willie Applegarth’s coaching appointment at Mercersburg was relatively short-lived and in 1925 he joined the General Electric Company as a welder. He remained with the company for 30 years until his retirement in 1955.

Served in the Royal Army Service Corps during WW1.

Born in Hardbargain, Williamsville, Trinidad and Tobago.

The demands of the Second World War along with the quest for international competition saw McDonald Bailey leave for England in 1944 as a member of the Royal Air Force. Almost directly he made his presence felt - he ran at the Royal Air Force athletic championships of 1945 and triumphed in both the 100-yard and 220-yard events to crown himself champion.
And it was from here that his amazing consistency began. He dominated those championships for four consecutive years, winning both sprints on each occasion. He was unbeaten champion when he left the Royal Air Force in 1948.

After winning the sprint 'double' at the British Amateur Athletic championships of 1946 MacDonald Bailey went on to do the same thing for six consecutive years. During this period he was returning times close to the world record: in the range of 9.6 to 9.8 for the 100-yards event, when the world record was 9.4 seconds. He was also recording 21.1 to 21.5 seconds for the 220 yards event, again not far from the world mark.

In 1947, Bailey returned consistently fast times for the 100 yards, and on one occasion he did a world-record 9.4 seconds, deemed to be wind-assisted. In 1947, he also clocked 10.3 seconds for the 100 metres - one-tenth of a second outside of the then world record. His time for the 200 metres was 21.2 seconds.

The British people were clamouring for Bailey to represent Britain in the Olympic Games of 1948, scheduled for London. The pressure on him to run for Britain was nearly as great as Trinidad's indecision on the selection of a team. In the end Bailey had to choose running for Britain or risk sitting out the Olympics.

While 1947 was a magnificent year for MacDonald Bailey, in 1948 he was plagued by injuries. Indeed, he had to fight tenaciously to reach the final of the 100-metres event, in which he finished sixth and last. Soon after the Olympics he returned to full fitness. British athletics then saw the Bailey of old, not only winning every race, but literally running away from the field to take the tape.
His biggest achievement in 1949 was in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he recorded times like 9.5 seconds for the 100 yards event and 10.2 for the 100 metres event. (The time of 10.2 for the 100 metres was the world record for the distance, but his performance was not recognised because the organisers had omitted to install a wind gauge on the track).

He competed for Great Britain in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland, where he won the bronze medal.

He jointly held the 100m world record at 10.2 seconds between 1951 and 1956 and won the sprint double seven times at the AAA Championships.

In 1953 he joined Rugby League side Leigh, but only played one game for them.

Arthur Wint was born in Jamaica in 1920 and was a successful athlete from a young age. In 1937 he was named Jamaica Boy Athlete of the Year and at the age of 18 he won gold in the 800m at the Central America Games in Panama. During World War Two, Wint joined the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and in 1942 he was sent to Britain for active combat as a pilot. It was during this time that he joined the Polytechnic Harriers athletics club.

In 1947 he left the RAF but remained in London studying medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. Nevertheless, Wint still made time for athletics and remained a member of the Harriers. 1948 saw the first Olympic Games take place since 1936. Wint was selected for the Jamaican track team and competed in three different events. He won gold for the 400m, silver for the 800m and almost had success in the 4x400m relay but got cramp during the race. His gold medal was Jamaica’s first Olympic gold.

Wint also competed in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki where he achieved success with a silver in the 800m once again. He was even more successful as part of the 4x400m relay team who broke the world record with their time of 3.03.9.

Upon graduating as a doctor in 1953, Wint retired from athletics and returned home to Jamaica where he was the only doctor in his parish. However, his ties with the UK remained. In 1954 he was awarded an MBE and from 1974-1978 he served as High Commissioner to Britain.

The ‘Gentle Giant’, as he was known, was inducted into the Black Athletes Hall of Fame in the USA in 1977 and the Jamaica Sports Hall of Fame in 1989. Wint died in 1992.

Harry Edward was an Olympic track and field athlete for Great Britain during the 1920 Olympic Games; later committed to humanitarian and civil rights causes; and worked as a United Nations relief worker.

Harry Francis Vincent Edward was born August 15, 1895, in Berlin, Germany, the only son of a Guyanan father and German mother; he had one sister, Irene. Although raised and educated in Germany, he was considered a British subject through his father's lineage. The Germans imprisoned Edward as a prisoner of war in the Internment Camp at Ruhleben, Germany, for the majority of World War I. Following that conflict, Edward immigrated to Great Britain, where, due to his facility with languages, taught French and German at Pitman's School of Business and Civil Service Training in London. He then worked as the French/German correspondent and accountant for the London Soda and Chemical Manufacturing Company and later as the cost accountant in manufacturing of cocoa and chocolates for J. Lyons and Company, Middlesex.

While in London, Edward joined the Polytechnic Harriers Athletic Club and began his career as a track and field athlete. He ran for Great Britain in the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, and won bronze medals in the 100- and 200-meter sprints. He received the Harvey Memorial Gold Cup in 1921 as the best champion of the year in London. In 1922, Edward won three Amateur Athletic Association championships (in the 100-, 220-, and 440-yard dashes) in one day and received personal congratulations from King George V.

Edward married for the first time in 1922 to Antoinette Kohler Regner of Switzerland. In 1923, after passing the professional examination of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries of Joint Stock Companies, Edward decided to try his fortune in the United States and participated in the Wilco Games at Yankee Stadium, as well as in athletic events that the New York and Boston Athletic Clubs sponsored.

As Edward later recounted, "when [he] passed the Statue of Liberty, [he] became black." He initially could not find employment in his field and eventually picked up jobs as a longshoreman, truckman, construction worker, and car washer. Once he found career employment as a cost accountant and office manager for the Sandura Company in Paulsboro, New Jersey, he sent for his wife and her son to join him in the United States. In 1930, he was "laid off" from that job due to his work in civil rights and his marriage to Regner ended a year later. Following Sandura, Edward worked as a field representative for the New York State Employment Service, an advertising manager and accountant for Crisis magazine (whose financial state at the end of his tenure is described by W.E.B. DuBois to Edward as "desperate"), and as a branch store manager for Sheffield Farms. In 1935, he organized, incorporated, and managed Harlem's Own Co-Op, a consumers' cooperative, as well as managed the Works Progress Administration's New York Federal Theatre.

Edward remarried to Gladys Hirst in 1938 and welcomed the birth of their son, William, a year later. Also, in 1939, Edward established the Musical Artists' Bureau. By the war years, Edward served as the chief clerk of the War Price and Rationing Board and supervisor of Fuel Rationing, as well as Rent Examiner of the Office of Price Administration in New York City.

After World War II, he joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), working in northern Greece until the agency was liquidated. During this time, he corresponded with Herbert H. Lehman, head of the UNRRA, U.S. housing expert Charles Abrams, and Eleanor Roosevelt, who invited him to visit and discuss resettlement problems. Edward also wrote articles relating to housing problems he encountered during his time in Greece. Upon return to the United States, he worked as a checker and inspector for the Fifth Avenue Coach Company, until he could return to his calling as an aid worker in 1949, when he joined the International Refugee Organization as a Resettlement Officer working in Bavaria, Germany.

In 1952, Edward became the deputy chief of the Asian-American Relations Section of the Committee for Free Asia; this position lasted only about a year. When he returned to New York, he worked as a Macy's stockman and also in sales promotion with the Reliable Remover and Lacquer Corporation. In 1957, he returned to aid work became the director of the Vietnam Foster Parents' Plan.
By the 1960s, Edward volunteered with the New York City Commission for the United Nations and for the Consular Corps. During this period, he received a B.A. and M.A. in international relations from City College of the City University of New York. Using information received from contacts from his work in Vietnam, Edward wrote about America's Vietnam experience from an insider's perspective and corresponded with Senator Jacob Javits about international relations and U.S.-Indochina policy, as well as Robert F. Kennedy regarding foreign aid and human rights. Edward also wrote about the policies of the New York State Employment Service in the 1960s.

His contacts from the "Poly" Harriers athletic club, like MP Philip Noel-Baker and Lord Mayor of London Sir Peter M. Studd, allowed Edward to act as Studd's host during an official visit with John V. Lindsay, mayor of New York in 1971.

Though never published, Edward wrote four drafts of an autobiography in which he discussed his life in detail. Harry Edward died on July 8, 1973.

[Information taken from the Amistad Research Center, New Orleans]

Victor Henry Augustus "Vic" d'Arcy was a British athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

At the Stockholm Olympics, Victor d'Arcy was eliminated in the semifinals of both 100 m and 200 m. As a third leg in the British 4x100 m relay team, he won a gold medal, in spite of finishing second after United States in the semifinal. United States was later disqualified for a fault in passing the baton, the same mistake was made in the final by world record holder and main favourite German team.

At the 1920 Summer Olympics, d'Arcy again reached the semifinals of the 100 m and also ran in the heats of the 200 m. He ran again the third leg in the British 4x100 m relay team which finished fourth.