Michael Rawson

Who was Michael Rawson?

Michael Arthur Rawson was a track and field athlete, who represented Great Britain in the men's 800 metres at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. He won the gold medal in that event, two years later at the 1958 European Championships in Stockholm, Sweden. Later that year he won a Bronze medal in the 800 metres at the Commonwealth Games. He represented Birchfield Harriers and on his retirement from the sport spent many years coaching at Birchfield and working as an athletics reporter for the BBC and local newspapers.

Rawson worked for the British Olympic Association at a number of Olympic Games.

He died after a short illness on 26 October 2000 in Birmingham.