Peter Ward (athlete)

Peter Hans Dudley Ward (7 February 1913 – 13 January 2009) was an English athlete who competed for Great Britain in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Career
He was born in Berlin, German Empire to an English father and German mother.

He studied Economics at the University of Cambridge and won a blue for athletics and a half-blue for cross-country. He was selected for the 1936 Olympics after setting a new 5,000 metres games record at the 1935 International Universities Games in Budapest and a new 3 miles record at the 1936 AAA championship.

In 1936, he finished eleventh the 1500 metres event at the 1936 Olympics, narrowly beating out fellow English runner Mike O'Donnell.

Ward won two 3 miles titles (1936 and 1937) at the prestigious AAA Championships.

At the 1938 British Empire Games he won the silver medal in the 3 miles competition. He also participated in the 6 miles contest but did not finish the race.

Personal life
He was a stockbroker by trade before serving in the Second World War as a major in the Royal Artillery. After the war he made wooden toys at a workshop in London where he met his future wife Lona Fradeletto. Later in 1951 he and a friend, Cecil Chapman, set up Grant Instruments which made thermostatically controlled baths.