{{short description|British racewalker}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use British English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Phil Embleton | image = | caption = | nationality = British (English) | sport = Athletics | event = Racewalking | club = Metropolitan WC | birth_date = {{birth date|1948|12|20|df=yes}} | birth_place = Hackney, London, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1974|5|22|1948|12|20|df=yes}} | death_place = London, England | height =185 cm | weight = 70 kg }}
'''Philip Bruce Embleton''' (20 December 1948 – 22 May 1974) was a British racewalker who competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics.<ref name="SportsRef">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/em/phil-embleton-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418041702/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/em/phil-embleton-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Phil Embleton Olympic Results |accessdate=30 November 2017}}</ref>
== Biography == Embleton finished second behind Roger Mills in the 3km walk event and runner-up behind Paul Nihill in the 10km walk event at the 1969 AAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/19690802/016/0016 |title=Shock victory by Irish middle-distance man |work=Hull Daily Mail |date=2 August 1969 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=15 May 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000729/19690803/157/0015 |title=White City results |work=The People |date=3 August 1969 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=15 May 2025}}</ref> Embleton would podium three more times in the AAA Championships 3km walk in 1970, 1971 and 1972.<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=15 May 2025}}</ref> He did however became the British 10,000m walk champion twice, after winning the titles at the 1971 AAA Championships and 1972 AAA Championships.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/aaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (men) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=15 May 2025}}</ref>
At the 1972 Olympics Games in Munich, he represented Great Britain in the men's 20 kilometres walk.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69037 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=15 May 2025}}</ref>
His career and life was cut short after he died of leukemia at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1974 at the age of 25.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1974-05-23 |title=Phil Embleton |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-guardian/140719288/ |access-date=2024-02-11 |work=The Guardian |pages=24}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002139/19740523/005/0005 |title=Athlete dies of leukemia |work=Birmingham Mail |date=23 May 1974 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=15 May 2025}}</ref>
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