Albert Shillington

Shillington ran for the athletics team of the Willowfield Temperance Harriers and was an all-round athlete. In 1934, he set a Northern Irish high jump record of 5ft. 5ins.^[3]

Shillington represented Northern Ireland at the 1934 British Empire Games, in the long jump and triple jump events.^[4][5]

He was one of only four athletes to represent Northern Ireland at the 1938 British Empire Games, partly due to a time of political change that saw the Irish Free State recently becoming Ireland.^[6] He took part in the athletics programme^[7] and finished sixth in the triple jump competition.^[8] At the time of the Games he was a wholesale draper and lived at 5 Sunnyside Drive, Belfast.^[1]

During World War II he continued to compete for the 9th Old Boys club^[9] and became a six-times champion of Ireland, twice over the long jump in 1942 and 1943 and also four times over the triple jump from 1942 to 1945 at the Irish Athletics Championships.^[10]