1978 UK Athletics Championships below also competed at the 1978 AAA Championships. Sonia Lannaman defended her 100 metres/200 metres sprint double from 1977. Allan Wells took his first sprint double on the men's side and Jane Colebrook managed a double in the 400 metres and 800 metres. Athletes to retain their titles from 1977 included Lannaman, sprint hurdlers Berwyn Price and Sharon Colyear, Geoff Capes (men's shot put), Meg Ritchie (women's discus) and Tessa Sanderson (women's javelin). The main international track and field competition for the United Kingdom that year was the 1978 European Athletics Championships. Two athletes at the UK event won individual
Doug Wilson (athlete) games". He died in Winchester, Hampshire, England in October 2010. Doug Wilson (athlete) Douglas Gordon Doug Wilson (28 January 1920 – 18 October 2010) was a British athlete who competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics. In London he competed in the men's 1500m event, but was eliminated in the opening round, placing fifth in his heat. He was born in Islington and was a member of the Polytechnic Harriers of London. In 2008 he was interviewed by the BBC on the subject of the 2012 Summer Olympics that are to be held in London, where he suggested that the organizing