Don Turner, athletics official, ultra-runner and AW contributor, dies aged 88

Don Turner, athletics official, ultra-runner and AW contributor, dies aged 88

Epsom & Ewell Harriers athlete finished runner-up in the London to Brighton race and third in the Comrades Marathon in the 1950s and 1960s before becoming a long-time timekeeper British athletics lost one of its finest servants this week when Don Turner died aged 88. A top ultra-distance runner in his youth, he went on to become treasurer of the National Union of Track Statisticians (NUTS) for 22 years and was a long-time volunteer official who …