Clive Loveland

{{Short description|English athlete (born 1934)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use British English|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Clive Loveland | image = | image_size =  | caption = | nationality = British (English) | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1934|11|19|df=y}} | birth_place = Manchester, England | death_date = | death_place = | sport = Athletics | event = javelin throw | height = | weight = | club = Army AC<br>London Athletic Club }}

'''Clive Norbert Loveland''' (born 19 November 1934) is a former athlete who competed for England.

== Biography == Loveland finished second behind Peter Cullen in the javelin throw event at the 1956 AAA Championships<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005475/19560716/008/0008 |title=Fine performance by Farrell in AAA hurdles |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=15 July 1956 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=27 April 2025}}</ref> and third behind Cullen at the 1957 AAA Championships.<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=27 April 2025}}</ref>

Loveland represented the England athletics team<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000332/19580623/006/0006 |title=England's Team |work=Lincolnshire Echo |p=6 |date=23 June 1958 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=27 September 2025}}</ref> in the javelin at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/38917|title=Athletes and results|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/cardiff-1958/athletes|title=1958 Athletes|publisher=Team England}}</ref>

Loveland reached the podium twice more at the AAA Championships, finishing second behind John McSorley at the 1962 AAA Championships and third behind Dave Travis at the 1965 AAA Championships.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/aaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (men) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=27 April 2025}}</ref>

In later life he lived in Banbury, Oxfordshire.

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