1. Lillian Board won the silver medal in the 400 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and two gold medals at the 1969 European Championships in Athletics in Athens.
22 Facts About Lillian Board
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Lillian Board's career was cut short in 1970 when she developed the colorectal cancer that within months would claim her life at the age of 22.
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Lillian Board took her to join London Olympiades, the leading all-female athletics club, which had a training base at Alperton, north-west London.
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Lillian Board made her debut over both 220 yds and 880 yds in 1964, winning both events in times of 26.2 and 2:30.8, respectively.
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Lillian Board lowered her 100 y best time to 10.9 and her 220 y best to 24.7.
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Lillian Board firmly announced her arrival onto the international scene when, still aged only 18, she won the 400 m race in a Commonwealth v USA match in Los Angeles, California on 9 July 1967.
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Lillian Board came from last to first with a stunning late surge and won in a time of 52.8 seconds, the second fastest ever recorded by a European woman.
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Lillian Board followed this momentous triumph with a run of four wins at 400 m in five international events, most notably securing the only victory for Britain's women in the 1967 European Cup, final in Kyiv on 15 September.
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Lillian Board began the 1968 season by winning the 440-yard race at an inter-club meeting in Brighton, her time of 54.8 comfortably inside the Olympic qualifying standard.
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Lillian Board then leapt to the top of the world rankings after winning over 400 m at an international meeting in Moscow.
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Lillian Board looked certain to win but was caught just before the line by Colette Besson of France and beaten into second place by a mere 0.09 seconds.
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Lillian Board was the first British woman to win this European title, the second being Lynsey Sharp in 2012.
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Lillian Board ran two-mile races early in the 1970 campaign, partly to build up stamina for the 800 m and partly with the aim of becoming the first athlete to represent Britain at all distances, the 1500 m being the only one missing from her collection.
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Lillian Board's time moved her to No 2 in the UK all-time lists for the women's mile, behind only another former world record holder at the distance, Anne Smith.
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Lillian Board then had her tonsils and two front teeth removed as Issels believed they helped spread infection.
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Lillian Board was transferred to Munich University Clinic on 21 December 1970, with suspected peritonitis.
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Lillian Board was found not to have peritonitis but still needed to undergo an operation to remove a stomach blockage.
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Lillian Board died in Munich two days later, aged 22.
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Lillian Board was cremated at Putney Vale Crematorium on 1 January 1971.
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Lillian Board only competed twice in the mile run and ceased competing in the long jump in 1967.
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Lillian Board was engaged to sports journalist David Emery at the time of her death.
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Lillian Board was the only female panellist on the first nationwide edition of BBC TV's quiz show A Question of Sport, broadcast on 5 January 1970.