Neville Sillitoe

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Neville John Sillitoe

OAM (24 April 1925 – 20 June 2021)[1][2]
was an Australian athletics coach.

Sillitoe competed for the Coburg Athletic Club. Upon his retirement, he took up athletics coaching and helped lay the foundations for one of the most successful eras of Australian sprinting with the

Tamsyn Lewis and Ken Hall. He was the coach of the 1982 Commonwealth Games Team and held a long serving athletics coaching post with Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne from 1983 to 2014.[3]

Sillitoe was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2018 for services to athletics.[4]

Sillitoe died on 20 June 2021. He is buried at the Fawkner Cemetery.

See also

References

  1. ^ Australia, Athletics. "Vale Neville Sillitoe OAM". www.athletics.com.au. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Neville Sillitoe interviewed by Nikki Henningham". National Library of Australia. 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Medal (OAM) of the Order of Australia in the General Division" (PDF). Governor-General of Australia. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  4. ^ "The full list of recipients of 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours". The Australian. 11 June 2018. Retrieved 20 April 2019.