Bernard Eeles

{{Short description|British athlete}} {{Use British English|date=January 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = | name = Bernard Eeles | image = | image_size =  | caption = | nationality = British (English) | birth_date = Q3. 1913 | birth_place = Edmonton, London, England | death_date = | death_place = | sport = Athletics | event = middle-distance | club = Southgate Harriers | pb = }}

'''Bernard Cyril Eeles''' (Q3.1913 – date of death unknown) was an athlete who competed for England at the 1938 British Empire Games.

== Biography == Eeles finished third behind Sydney Wooderson in the 1 mile event at the 1935 AAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000681/19350713/349/0018 |title=AAA titles |work=Daily Herald |date=13 July 1935 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 January 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000681/19350715/314/0017 |title=Why Lovelock lost his title |work=Daily Herald |date=15 July 1935 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 January 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=16 January 2025 }}</ref>

Eeles represented England in the 880 yards and 1 mile at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. At the time of the Games Eeles was an accountant by trade and lived in Cecil Avenue, in Enfield, London.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/35450|title=Athletes and results|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=15 July 2019|archive-date=26 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626014201/https://www.thecgf.com/results/athletes/35450|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/sydney-1938/athletes|title=1938 Athletes|publisher=Team England}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/sydney-1938/athletes |title=Sydney 1938 Team |website=Team England |access-date=16 January 2025 }}</ref>

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Eeles, Bernard}} Category:1913 births Category:English men middle-distance runners Category:British men middle-distance runners Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1938 British Empire Games Category:Commonwealth Games athletes for England Category:20th-century English sportsmen