Godfrey Rampling

Godfrey Rampling (1909 to 2009) was an English quarter-mile and 400 metres runner and army officer who competed for Great Britain at the 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics. At Los Angeles in 1932 he ran the anchor leg for the British 4 x 400 metres relay team that took silver behind the United States, and at Berlin in 1936 he ran the second leg for the relay team that won gold. He won the AAA 440 yards title in 1931 and 1934, and at the 1934 British Empire Games in London he won the 440 yards and helped England to relay gold. He served in the Royal Artillery until 1958. He lived to 100 and was Britain's oldest living Olympic champion at his death.