{{short description|British long-distance runner}} {{distinguish|Keith Angas}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Use British English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Keith Angus | image = | caption = | nationality = British (English) | sport = Long-distance running | event = Marathon | club = Sheffield AC | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|4|5|df=yes}} | birth_place = Sheffield, England | death_date = | death_place = | height =170 cm | weight =59 kg }}
'''Keith Angus''' (born 5 April 1943) is a British long-distance runner who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics.<ref name="SportsRef">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/an/keith-angus-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417190942/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/an/keith-angus-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Keith Angus Olympic Results |access-date=11 May 2017}}</ref>
== Biography == Angus competed for Sheffield Utd Harriers which later became Sheffield AC in 1975<ref>{{cite web |title=Sheffield UTD Harriers |url=https://www.nationalathleticsleague.org.uk/club/city-of-sheffield-and-dearne-ac/}}</ref> Angus finished third behind Trevor Wright in the 10 miles event at the 1971 AAA Championships<ref name="Nuts">{{cite web |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |access-date=26 May 2025 |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |archive-date=24 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240524105334/https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and third again the following year at the 1972 AAA Championships.<ref>{{cite web |title=AAA Championships (men) |url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/aaa.htm |access-date=26 May 2025 |website=GBR Athletics |archive-date=8 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250508091250/http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/aaa.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
On 15th September 1971 Angus ran a 10k personal best [https://more.arrs.run/race/35691 at London in 28:45.8]
Angus placed 4th at the 1972 English National Cross Country Championships<ref>{{cite web |title=1972 English National Cross Country Report |url=http://national.crosscountrychampionship.uk/html/reportCC19723S.htm |access-date=27 August 2025 |archive-date=3 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241203024303/http://national.crosscountrychampionship.uk/html/reportCC19723S.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and later that year was part of the winning England team at the World Cross Country Championship.<ref>{{cite web |title=Keith Angus |url=https://more.arrs.run/runner/10529 |website=Association of Road Racing Statisticians}}</ref> He made one further appearance at the World Cross Country Championships in 1975, Rabat, Morocco.
Angus won the 1974 edition of the Košice Peace Marathon<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kosice International Peace Marathon |url=https://www.arrs.run/HP_KosMa.htm |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=www.arrs.run |archive-date=22 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922090852/https://arrs.run/HP_KosMa.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Marathon Milestones |url=https://www.kosicemarathon.com/marathon-milestones/?lang=en |access-date=2023-03-24 |language=en-US |archive-date=24 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324201923/https://www.kosicemarathon.com/marathon-milestones/?lang=en |url-status=live }}</ref> in a field that included future double Olympic Champion Waldermir Cierpinski, Ron Hill and Jack Foster.<ref>{{cite web |title=Košice results |url=https://www.kosicemarathon.com/prehlad-vysledkov/}}</ref> He moved to Nottingham in September 1974.<ref>''Nottingham Evening Post'' Wednesday 9 October 1974, page 34</ref> He then twice finished on the podium in the marathon event at both the 1975 AAA Championships and 1976 AAA Championships.<ref name=Nuts/> The 1976 AAA marathon also acted as the 1976 Olympic trial; it was run on a warm and testing course at Rotherham, and Angus set his personal best of 2:15.55,<ref>{{cite web |title=Marathon personal best |url=https://www.teamgb.com/athlete/keith-angus/66VlYod0BRlbLK45dZlaJB}}</ref> beating more fancied names that included the then world record holder Ian Thompson, Ron Hill, and Bernie Plain.<ref>{{cite web |title=Olympic trial 1976 |url=https://athleticsweekly.com/news/british-olympic-marathon-trials-of-the-1960s-and-1970s-1039942740/}}</ref>
Angus won the 1975 CAU Intercounties 20 mile at Derby.<ref name="CAU">{{cite web |title=CAU (Inter-Counties) Championships (Other) |url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/cauo.htm |website=gbrathletics.com |access-date=27 September 2025 |archive-date=23 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250423230850/http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/cauo.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> At the 1976 Olympics Games in Montreal, he represented Great Britain in the marathon.<ref name="oly">{{cite web |title=Biographical Information |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68841 |access-date=26 May 2025 |website=Olympedia}}</ref>
He was a teacher at Tapton House School in Chesterfield,<ref>{{cite web |title=Tapton house school |url=https://www.oldtaptonians.co.uk/old-taptonians-biographies.php}}</ref> where he resides.
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