What is Ken Matthews?
[[File:Ken Matthews 1964.jpg|thumb|200px|Matthews in 1964]] '''Kenneth Joseph Matthews''' {{Small|[[MBE]]}} (21 June 1934 – 3 June 2019) was a [[British people|British]] [[Race walking|racewalker]]. He was born in [[Birmingham]]. He won the gold medal in 20 km walk at the [[1964 Summer Olympics]], [[Tokyo]]. He also won the gold medal in the same event at the [[European Athletics Championships]] in 1962. He was added to the [[England Athletics Hall of Fame]] in 2011. Matthews died on 3 June 2019, at the age of 84.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.athleticsweekly.com/news/olympic-champion-race-walker-ken-matthews-dies-1039922906/|title=Olympic champion race walker Ken Matthews dies|website=Athletics Weekly|date=3 June 2019|access-date=4 June 2019|archive-date=5 June 2019|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190605054820/https://www.athleticsweekly.com/news/olympic-champion-race-walker-ken-matthews-dies-1039922906/|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} *[https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/ken-matthews-1.html Ken Matthews] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417173318/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/ken-matthews-1.html |date=2020-04-17 }} at Sports-Reference.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Matthews, Ken}} [[Category:1934 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:British athletes]] [[Category:Racewalkers]] [[Category:Olympic gold medalists for Great Britain]] [[Category:Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics]] [[Category:Members of the Order of the British Empire]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Birmingham]] {{Sports-bio-stub}}