Nick Birks
Australian athlete (born 1938)
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Birth name | Nicholas Napier Birks | |||||||||||
Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||
Born | (1938-06-04) 4 June 1938 (age 86) | |||||||||||
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Country | Australia | |||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||
Event | Javelin / Decathlon | |||||||||||
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Nicholas Napier Birks (born 4 June 1938) is an Australian former athlete active in the 1950s and 1960s.
An old boy of St Peter's College in Adelaide, Birks is the great-grandson of the founder of Charles Birks & Co, a former department store on Rundle Street. He was a nine-time national champion in the javelin and won three national titles in the decathlon.[1] In 1961 he set a British Empire record in the javelin with a throw of 252 ft 4 inches in Sydney.[2]
Birks featured in three editions of the British Empire and Commonwealth Games, the first in Cardiff in 1958, where he was ninth in the javelin. He won bronze in the javelin in 1962 and silver at the same event in 1966.[3]
References
- ^ "N. Birks Retains Decathlon Title". The Canberra Times. 22 March 1962. p. 36 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Javelin Throw Record Set". The Canberra Times. 27 February 1961. p. 16 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Unknown Kenyan beats Clarke in six-miler". The Canberra Times. 8 August 1966. p. 14 – via National Library of Australia.
External links
- Nick Birks at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
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Australian National Champions in Men's Decathlon
- 1960: Pat Leane
- 1961–1962: Nick Birks
- 1963: Roy Williams (NZL)
- 1964: Nick Birks
- 1965: John O'Neill
- 1966: Wayne Athorne
- 1967: John Hamann
- 1968–1970: Geoff Smith
- 1971: Terry Beaton
- 1972: Sam Caruthers (USA)
- 1973: Robbie Goff
- 1974: Sanitesi Latu (TGA)
- 1975: Rob Lethbridge
- 1976–1977: Peter Hadfield
- 1978: Sanitesi Latu (TGA)
- 1979–1985: Peter Hadfield
- 1986: Simon Shirley
- 1987: Stuart Andrews
- 1988: Simon Shirley
- 1989: Chris Bradshaw
- 1990–1991: Paul Scott
- 1992: Dean Smith
- 1993: Peter Winter
- 1994: Dean Barton-Smith
- 1995: Leslie Kuorikoski
- 1996: Peter Winter
- 1997: Peter Banks
- 1998: Jagan Hames
- 1999: Scott Ferrier
- 2000: Klaus Ambrosch (AUT)
- 2001: Matthew McEwen
- 2002: Scott Ferrier
- 2003–2004: Matthew McEwen
- 2005: Eric Surjan
- 2006: Jason Dudley
- 2007: Eric Surjan
- 2008: Jason Dudley
- 2009: Brent Newdick (NZL)
- 2010: Stephen Cain
- 2011: Jarrod Sims
- 2012: Brent Newdick (NZL)
- 2013: Scott Mclaren (NZL)
- 2014: Jake Stein
- 2015: David Brock
- 2016-2018: Cedric Dubler
- 2019: Daniel Golubovic (USA)
- 2020: Cedric Dubler
- 2021: Ashley Moloney
- 2022: Cedric Dubler