Five times British Olympic walker Chris Maddocks is to present the prizes at the HSBC Securities Services Manx Harriers Open on 28 February

British 50km record holder, 2nd fastest British 20km walker

Chris Maddocks on his way to victory in the Manx Airlines 30km in 1985 in what remained his best ever time (3rd best British walker at 30km). (photo: Gwelda Lambden)

His time of 2:11:09 was second only to Steve Barry's 1982 Commonwealth Games winning 2:10:16 at the time and only Ian McCombie among British walkers ever went faster (2:07:56) in later years.  Chris also did three other 30km times in less than 2 hours and 12 minutes.  (1) April '85 2.11.43 2nd Commonwealth Trial, Edinburgh; (2) 1st 2.11.38 Sept '89 Comonwealth Trial, Roundhay Park; (3) Dec 30 89 Open Club track 2.11.54 just a few days prior to going off to Austrailia and onto New Zealand.

Chris was best known for his final Olympic walk in 2000 even though it was  his slowest by far.

Read all about his 2000 fame here.

Not only does Chris hold the British record at 50km but he has the three fastest British times ever (source gbrathetics.com .)

Time	Venue	Date
03:51:37	Burrator	28-Oct-90
03:53:14	Constanta, ROM	25-Nov-95
03:57:10	Sint-Oedenrode, NED	12-Mar-00
04:00:02	Leicester	11-Oct-92
04:02:00	Vilanova, ESP	18-Mar-84
04:02:38	Bergen, NOR	25 Sep 83

Here are his fastest six times at 20km, including the second best time by a British walker. (source gbrathetics.com )

Time	Venue	Date
01:22:12	Burrator	03-May-92
01:22:35	L'Hospitalet, ESP	27 May 89
01:23:38	Lancaster	09-May-92
01:23:45	Békéscsaba, HUN	10-Apr-88
01:23:46	Seoul, KOR	23-Sep-88
01:23:50	Békéscsaba, HUN	05-Apr-87

 Chris competed in the HSBC Manx Harriers open on 10 occasions - the event was then named the Manx Airlines invitation meeting and was promoted by Boundary Harriers until the merger with Manx AC to form Manx Harriers in 1991 (stats by Murray):

Year	Distance	Pos	Time
1984	20km	3	1:27:15
1985	30km	1	2:11:09
1987	20km	2	1:24:11
1992	20km	4	1:25:10
1993	20km	1	1:25:59
1995	20km	4	1:30:12
1996	20km	4	1:28:27
1997	20km	2	1:29:13
1999	20km	2	1:27:43
2000	20km	2	1:27:38

Chris Maddocks (left) with British 20km record holder Ian McCombie at Albany Street, Douglas in 1992 - the last year that Ian visited.  Walking was their speciality - not fashion!  (Photo Murray)

Entries for the HSBC Securities Services Manx Harriers Open close on Saturday - race walking and half marathon - details at manxharriers.com

Chris Maddocks will around for most of the day at the National Sports Centre to offer advice and encouragement and is keen to meet with people tackling the Parish Walk.

Some more stats from Steve Taylor listing his GB all-time ranking:

10km - 40.17 1st

10 miles - 67.01 4th

20km - 82.12 2nd

30km - 2.11.09 3rd

35km - 2.36.19 1st

50km - 3.51.37 1st

Chris rates one his best races was finishing second to Carlos Mercenario in the 1989 New York Marathon.  He did a high 3.11 and Chris did a GB best of 3.14.37. Among those that he beat were Andrei Perlov (Russian who 3 months earlier set a new WR for 50km  and also became the 1992 Olympic Champ) and Mauritzio Damilano. Plus Bo Gustaffson, Geovanni Perricelli etc