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Bruce Tulloh

Michael Swinton "Bruce" Tulloh (29 September 1935 – 28 April 2018) was a long-distance runner from England who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics.[1][2][3]

Bruce Tulloh
Tulloh in 1966
Personal information
NationalityBritish (English)
Born(1935-09-29)29 September 1935
Datchet, England
Died28 April 2018(2018-04-28) (aged 82)
Marlborough, England
Height171 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Weight54 kg (119 lb)[1]
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
middle distance
ClubPortsmouth AC
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Great Britain
European Championships
Gold medal – first place1962 Belgrade5000 metres

Athletics career

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Tulloh became the British 3 miles champion after winning the British AAA Championships titles at the 1959 AAA Championships[4] and at the 1962 AAA Championships.[5]

Tulloh won the European title in the men's 5000 metres at the 1962 European Championships in Belgrade, Yugoslavia with a winning time of 14:00.6. He was also part of a national title winning team Portsmouth A.C. in cross-country and road running in the 1960s. He was famous for running barefoot in many of his races. His twin daughters were teenage running phenomena in the 1980s setting age-best marks running for their club Swindon A.C. They also ran barefoot.[6][7]

He represented England in the 1 mile and 3 mile races at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia.[8] Four years later he competed in the 3 mile and 6 mile races at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.[9] In between he won his third AAA 3 miles title at the 1963 AAA Championships.[10]

In 1969, Tulloh ran 2876 miles across America from Los Angeles to New York City in 64 days. This is described in his book Four Million Footsteps, published by Pelham Books and as a Mayflower paperback in 1970.

He was coach to British marathon athlete Richard Nerurkar.

Personal bests
Distance Time (min) Date Location
Mile3:59.327 January 1962Hamilton, New Zealand[2]
3 miles13:12.017 August 1961Southampton, U.K.[7]
5000 m13:49.422 July 1964Helsinki, Finland[2]
6 miles27:23.788 July 1966London, U.K.[7]
10,000 m28:50.430 August 1966Budapest, Hungary[2]

Personal life

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He taught biology at The Bulmershe School, Dr Challoner's Grammar School and then Marlborough College for 20 years.

He wrote a book, Running is Easy, that is essentially an amateur's guide to becoming a good runner.

Tulloh also wrote for Runner's World. One of his most important contributions was a three-fold training programme for the ten-mile race (16.1 km): the first programme was how to get sub-80 mins (4:58 per km), the second was for sub-70 mins (4:21 per km) and the third for sub-60 mins (3:44 per km).[11]

Death

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Tullloh died at his home in Marlborough on 28 April 2018. He was 82.[12][13][14][15][16]

Publications

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TitleYearPublisherISBNPages
Long-distance running1967Amateur Athletic Association31[17]
Tulloh on running1968Heinemann[18]
Four million footsteps1970Mayflower0583116930175[19]
Naturally fit1976Barker0213165872167[20]
The Olympic Games1976Heinemann043527027372[21]
The complete jogger1979Macmillan0333257189138[22]
The marathon book1982Virgin0907080332190[23]
The complete distance runner1983Panther0586059768224[24]
Bruce Tulloh's running log: the complete runner's companion1986Stephens0850598443160[25]
The teenage runner1989Kingswood043498177X156[26]
Running your first marathon and half marathon1989Thorsons072251795564[27]
Track athletics1994Blandford071372403X79[28]
Running is easy1996CollinsWillow0002187310192[29]

See also

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References

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  1. 1 2 3 Cobley, John (9 May 2015). "Bruce Tulloh Profile". Racing Past. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Bruce Tulloh". World Athletics. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  3. ↑ "Michael Bruce S. Tulloh". Olympics. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  4. ↑ "Barefooted Bruce kicks out stars". Weekly Dispatch (London). 12 July 1959. Retrieved 3 May 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 3 May 2025.
  6. ↑ "Great Britain's Budding Zolas, the Tulloh Twins, Are 15-Year-Old 1,500-Meter Running Sensations". People. 16 December 1985. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  7. 1 2 3 "Bruce Tulloh". Power of 10. UK Athletics. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  8. ↑ "Athletes: Perth 1962 Team". Team England. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  9. ↑ "Athletes: Kingston 1966 Team". Team England. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  10. ↑ "AAA Championships (men)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 3 May 2025.
  11. ↑ Tulloh, Bruce (7 May 2002). "RW's Classic 10-mile Schedules". Runner's World. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  12. ↑ Smyth, David (17 April 2020). "Remembering Barefoot Bruce". Runner's World. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  13. ↑ Robinson, Roger (29 April 2018). "Bruce Tulloh, barefoot champion of the 1960s, dies". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  14. ↑ Nichols, Peter (4 May 2018). "Bruce Tulloh obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  15. ↑ Shaw, Phil (8 May 2018). "Bruce Tulloh: Long-distance runner who broke records in bare feet". The Independent. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  16. ↑ McGee, Patrick (11 May 2018). "Bruce Tulloh, barefoot runner and biologist, 1935-2018". Financial Times. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  17. ↑ Hyman, Martin; Tulloh, Bruce. "Long distance running". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  18. ↑ "Tulloh on running". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  19. ↑ "Four million footsteps". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  20. ↑ "Naturally fit". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  21. ↑ "The Olympic Games". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  22. ↑ "The complete jogger". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  23. ↑ Wilson, Neil; Etchells, Andy; Tulloh, Bruce. "The marathon book". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  24. ↑ "The complete distance runner". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  25. ↑ "Bruce Tulloh's running log: the complete runner's companion". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  26. ↑ "The teenage runner". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  27. ↑ "Running your first marathon and half marathon". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  28. ↑ "Track athletics". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  29. ↑ "Running is easy". British Library. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
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