RON CASEY
Ron Casey has had a lifetime interest in athletics despite his own mediocre
achievements in the sport.
After dabbling unspectacularly as a long jumper at school, Ron gave away
any active participation in athletics before being drawn into the fun run
revolution in the late 1970s, where his involvement included his completion
of several marathons.
Ron has always been fascinated with statistics, and spent his entire
working career (33 years) with the Australian Bureau of Statistics, before
retiring in August 2004. |
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This fascination with statistics has also encompassed the sporting arena (predominantly athletics and cricket), and as a hobby, Ron has been contributing statistically related articles to cricket and athletics journals for many years. He has been a member of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians since 1973, and the Association of Track and Field Statisticians since 1989.
Ron's pet peeve is the amount of errors he finds in biographical details of athletes on the internet, often in 'official' websites, and he prides himself in ensuring that the material he provides for the Sporting-Heroes website is totally accurate and error free.
Ron was born on 12 August 1951 in Brisbane, Australia, where he has lived all his life. He and his wife Cathy live in an old 'Queenslander' home, just 500 metres from Brisbane's famous 'Gabba' Cricket Ground.
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