Clive Thomas (1947 – 2014)

Clive Thomas (1947 – 2014)

TVH is sad to report the death of Clive Thomas on Sunday 21^st September at the age of 67. Clive would have been a member of TVH for 45 years on the 4^th October 2014.

For 10 or more years, Clive Thomas contributed to TVH’s successes on road and country. Despite the fact that he regularly competed in the Welsh cross-country championships, qualifying for the Welsh team at the IAAF World Cross-country championships on 6 occasions, he still found time to run for the championship winning Valley teams at the Southern Cross-country championships in 1975 and 1978, and was regularly to be found in the top 100 in the National Cross-country. Doubtless, if Clive had run for Middlesex rather than Surrey, TVH would have had an even more impressive record at the Middlesex cross-country championships. He was also consistently one of our leading performers at both the Southern and National 12 Stage relays throughout the 70s. He also performed for Valley in British League competitions covering 800m, 1500m, 5,000m and 3,000m Steeplechase and it was at the last of these that he received his only GB vest in 1975 in a match against France.

1973

106^th IAAF World Cross-Country Champs (7^th Welsh scorer)

Welsh 1500m champion 3 52.6

1974

91^st IAAF World Cross-Country Champs (2^nd Welsh scorer)

80^th National Cross-Country (2^nd scorer – team 14^th)

Southern Road Relay (long leg 1^st team)

National Road Relay (26.08 moved team from 21^st to 13^th on leg 3. Team 10^th )

1975

87^th IAAF World Cross-Country Champs (3^rd Welsh scorer)

25^th Southern Cross-Country (1^st counter – team 3^rd)

42^nd National Cross-Country (1^st counter – Team 15^th)

Southern Road Relay (long leg Team 1^st)

National Road Relay (27.01 – Leg 11 Team 12^th)

3^rd for GB v France 3,000m SC in 8 37.8 (This PB puts him just below Dave Baptiste and just above Andrew Hennessey on the all-time UK list)

Pb 13 42.73 for 5,000m

3 46.5 for 1,500m

1976

Club Champion at 7.5m & 10m cross-country

Southern Road Relay (Short leg – Team 2nd)

National Road Relay (26.41 – Team 8^th)

1977

70^th National Cross-Country (2^nd counter – Team 10^th)

Southern Road Relay (Long leg Team 5th)

National Road Relay (27.01 – Leg 11 Team 12^th)

1978

109^th IAAF World Cross-Country Champs (7^th Welsh scorer)

26^th Southern Cross-Country (1^st counter – team 1^st )

67th National Cross-Country (2nd counter – Team 8^th)

Southern Road Relay ( I have no details about Clive but TVH were 1^st)

National Road Relay (26.59 – Leg 3 Team 6^th)

1979

114^th IAAF World Cross-Country Champs (4^th Welsh scorer)

49^th Southern Cross-Country (3^rd counter – team 5^th )

Southern Road Relay ( long leg team 2^nd )

National Road Relay (26.55 – Leg 9 Team 11^th)

1980

138^th IAAF World Cross-Country Champs (6^th Welsh scorer)

64^th National Cross-Country (1^st counter)

Southern Road Relay (long leg Team 2^nd)

National Road Relay (25.57 – Leg 1 team 12^th)

1981

58^th National Cross-Country (1^st counter Team 10th)

1982

68^th National Cross-country (1^st counter 12^th team)

40^th Intercounties (for Surrey)