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Left Field: How athletics gave Dracula to the world

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20000430
Author:SIMON TURNBULL

HAVING CONCLUDED last week by mentioning that Bram Stoker happened to be a race walker - disqualified after winning the five-mile walk at the Civil Service athletics championships in London in 1868 - here follows a little more of his sporting life to get your teeth into.

Stoker was actually a competitive walker of some note. He was never beaten by a rival, only by the judge who penalised him for "lifting", breaking contact with the ground, in that five-mile Civil Service race. Even then, the committee members of the Civil Service Athletics Society were so impressed with his performance - he ...

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