Basil Dickinson
Olympic athlete
1915 – 2013
Who was Basil Dickinson?
John Basil Charles Dickinson was an Australian athlete who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
Born in Queanbeyan, Dickinson attended Sydney Boys High School, graduating in 1932. and represented Australia in triple jump at the 1936 Olympics, finishing sixteenth.
At the 1938 Empire Games he won bronze medals in both the long jump and triple jump.
Dickinson was an official at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
After the death of Bill Roycroft on 29 May 2011, Dickinson was recognised as Australia's oldest surviving Olympian, and as the last surviving member of the Australian 1936 Olympic team.
Dickinson died on 7 October 2013, aged 98.
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