Neville Sillitoe

Neville John Sillitoe OAM (born 24 April 1925 in Melbourne) is an Australian athletics coach.

Neville competed for the Coburg Athletic Club. Upon his retirement he took up athletics coaching and helped lay the foundations for one of the most successful eras of Australian sprinting with the East Melbourne Harriers Athletic Club.

Australian Representatives that Neville Sillitoe has coached include Peter Norman, Gary Holdsworth, Greg Lewis, Aaron Rouge-Serret, Colin McQueen, Denise Boyd, Richard James, Bruce Frayne, Tamsyn Lewis and Ken Hall.

He was the coach of the 1982 Commonwealth Games Team and has held a long serving athletics coaching post with Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne.

Neville was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2018 for services to athletics.

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