Stanley Frank "Stan" Vickers ( Eng. Stanley Frank "Stan" Vickers ; June 18, 1932 , Louis , Greater London , UK - April 17, 2013 , Seaford , East Sussex , UK ) - British track and field athlete, bronze medalist of the Summer Olympic Games in Rome ( 1960 ) in race walking.
 Stanley Vickers | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Stanley Frank "Stan" Vickers | |||||||||||||
| Date and place of birth | June 18, 1932 Louis , Greater London , UK | |||||||||||||
| Date and Place of Death | April 17, 2013 (aged 80) Seaford , East Sussex , UK | |||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  Great Britain | |||||||||||||
| Growth | 185 cm | |||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg | |||||||||||||
| Club | Belgrave Harriers, Wimbledon, UK | |||||||||||||
| Personal Walking Records | ||||||||||||||
| 10 km | 43: 43.6 (1960) | |||||||||||||
| 20 km | 1-28: 53 (1959) | |||||||||||||
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At the Olympic Games in Melbourne (1956), he was fifth at a distance of 20 km, setting a national record of 1:32:34. At the European Championships in Stockholm (1958), ahead of Olympic champion Melbourne Leonid Spirin , he won the “gold” with a result of 1:33:09. At the Olympic Games in Rome (1960) he became a bronze medalist (1:34:56). He was a five-time champion of Great Britain. In 1957 and 1958 he won calls at 2 and 7 miles, in 1960 he broke the record at a distance of 2 miles, set in 1904 by George Larner .
At the end of his sports career, he worked on the London Stock Exchange.