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	Chris Brasher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christopher ("Chris") William Brasher (August 21, 1928 – February 28, 2003) was a British athlete and sports journalist who helped found the London Marathon.
		Brasher was born in Georgetown, the capital of Guyana.
		Two years later, at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, Brasher finished first in the 3,000 metres steeplechase with a time of 8 minutes 41.2 seconds, but was disqualified for allegedly interfering with another runner, Ernst Larsen of Norway.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chris_Brasher (291 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Obituary: Chris Brasher
		Chris Brasher, who has died aged 74, was an Olympic champion athlete, a mountaineer, a writer, a television executive and an entrepreneur.
		Brasher was initially disqualified for interfering with another runner as his made his burst for home, and he had to wait three agonising hours for the judges' decision to be overturned - so long that his medal ceremony was postponed to the following day.
		Brasher's era as an athlete was that of the old Corinthian, public-school and Oxbridge amateur.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,905221,00.html (983 words)

	Print Article: London's marathon magician
		Chris Brasher, who has died aged 74, was an Olympic champion athlete, a mountaineer, a journalist, a television executive and an entrepreneur.
		Brasher was initially disqualified for interfering with another runner as he made his burst for home, and he had to wait three agonising hours for the judges' decision to be overturned - so long that his medal ceremony was postponed to the next day.
		Brasher, and a dozen sportswriters, celebrated through the night, ensuring that he entered the annals as one of the few Olympic champions to have received their gold medal "blind drunk, totally blotto, with an asinine grin on my face".
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/03/10/1047144922061.html (478 words)

	CUH&H: Chris Brasher
		Born in 1928 Chris Brasher came to Cambridge to study, and initially on a national level it seemed that he hadn't been given the respect he deserved and was to lap up in decades to come.
		Brasher then brought his love for marathon running to the U.K. and by co-founding the London Marathon, first run in 1981, turned the concept of a marathon from a race for top level athletes into a public event raising huge amounts of money for charity, drawing all levels of people from varied abilities and backgrounds.
		Chris Brasher paid back his loyalties to the traditional Oxbridge rivalry by giving 8 "Brasher" places to both Oxofrd and Cambridge to ensure that a Varsity match could be conducted each year at the London Marathon.
	www.srcf.ucam.org /cuhh/competition/chrisbrasher.php (438 words)

	Chris Brasher
		Chris was an enthusiastic member of the Ranelagh team that set a new record of 33.41.15 for the Pennine Way relay in 1971, an account of which he later presented to a wider audience in an article in 'The Observer'.
		Chris was in the team of course and in 1987 at the age of 58 was one of the prime movers and organisers of our final (to date) effort when severe weather unfortunately caused us to abandon the attempt on grounds of safety.
		Chris was appointed CBE in 1996 and is survived by his wife Shirley, daughters Kate and Amanda and son Hugh, himself a steeplechaser and a Ranelagh Harrier for some years.
	www.ranelagh-harriers.com /chris.html (1205 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Chris Brasher
		Chris Brasher's achievements ensured his place in Britain's sporting history on several fronts: as pacemaker in Roger Bannister's record-breaking mile, as an Olympic champion, and as the founder of the London Marathon.
		Brasher emerged from his education at Rugby and Cambridge with the modest reputation among his athletics contemporaries of being a "trier".
		Brasher was married to the former Wimbledon doubles finalist, Shirley Bloomer, with whom he had three children.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chris-Brasher (1845 words)

	John Muir Trust: Chris Brasher dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Chris was a giant of a man in so many ways, but for the JMT he was a huge part of the inspiration and the energy that got us to where we are today.
		He was one of the four founders of the John Muir Trust and would have been pleased with the news on the day of his death, of agreement for the purchase of the 55,000 acre North Harris Estate by the community-led North Harris Trust in which the John Muir Trust is a partner.
		Chris came to national prominence when he was pace-maker to Roger Bannister in the first four-minute mile.
	www.jmt.org /news/2003/chris.html (514 words)

	Outdoor Writers Guild Press Release - GUILD PAYS TRIBUTE TO BRASHER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Chris Brasher had the idea for the ultra lightweight walking boot after he had walked the arduous Roof of Wales route, traversing all the highest Welsh mountains, in 1979.
		So Chris brought his experience of running shoe technology gained in a distinguished athletics career (in which he was a pace-maker in the first-ever sub-four-minute mile and won a gold medal in the 3000m steeplechase at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics) to the outdoor world.
		Chris was also the founder and first race director of the London Marathon, which has since raised millions of pounds of charity, and he was the founder and first chairman of the British Orienteering Federation.
	www.owg.org.uk /press-releases/pr5.html (525 words)

	Chris Brasher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Christopher William Brasher (August 21, 1928 - February 28, 2003) was a British athlete and sports journalist who helped found the London Marathon.
		Two years later, at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, Brasher finished first in the 3,000 metres steeplechase, but was disqualified for allegedly interfering with another runner.
		Brasher went on to enjoy a distinguished career as a journalist and broadcaster, and was awarded the CBE in 1996.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Chris_Brasher.html (1485 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News
		Brasher won the gold medal in what would become his typical style -- a bullocking run, followed by controversy, with him being first disqualified and then bearding the judges with his own appeal in which he managed to get all the other medallists, including runner-up Ernst Larsen, of Norway, to give evidence on his behalf.
		The Olympic final was Brasher’s last race as an international athlete, although he would run for recreation through into his 60s, and he would also compete as an international in orienteering, the Scandinavian compass sport that he introduced to Britain with his old steeplechasing and climbing mate, John Disley.
		Brasher married the Wimbledon tennis quarter-finalist, Shirley Bloomer, in 1959, and he is survived by his widow and their three children, Hugh, Kate and Amanda.
	www.iaaf.org /news/Kind=2/newsId=20492.html (1510 words)

	Chris Brasher: The Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Brasher's buccaneering life was dominated by an unquenchable love of sport and the outdoor life.
		Whether he was climbing a mountain or organising a marathon, Brasher always demanded the impossible from himself and from everybody else.
		And Chris Brasher himself is best remembered, not in the pews of a church or in the pages of a book, but on the roads, in the mountains, or when you look down, after a run or walk, on an unspoiled meadow he fought to save, beside the curve of a river he loved.
	racepayment.mirrorservers.co.uk /chrisbrashermemorialrun/cb/man.htm (378 words)

	SI.com - More Sports - Brasher, pacemaker for Bannister, dies at 74 - Friday February 28, 2003 10:15 AM
		Brasher's death was announced Friday by organizers of the London Marathon, which he helped found in 1981.
		Brasher set the pace with a first lap of 57.5 seconds, then 60.7 for the second for a half-mile time of 1:58.2.
		Brasher could have run the first quarter in 55 seconds without my realizing it, because I felt so full of running, but I should have had to pay for it later.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /more/news/2003/02/28/brasher_obit_ap (589 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Sport \| Athletics \| Marathon man
		Brasher, all pixie ears and bad teeth, his spectacles gently steaming up from the heat of the race, had finally emerged from the golden shadow of his track contemporaries, Roger Bannister and Chris Chataway.
		This, as Brasher saw it, could be used to develop sports facilities in London and the marathon was conceived from the beginning as a charity.
		Yet, while Brasher may have given the air of an eccentric old buffer with a hobgoblin face, eternally crumpled anorak and spotted neckerchief who, to the public, was a folk hero, his personal style frequently left people thinking his running shoes had ridden over them roughshod.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /athletics/story/0,10082,905880,00.html (2101 words)

	Sport \| Thousands ready to honour Brasher in Richmond run
		The Observer is to sponsor a special 10-kilometre road run in memory of Chris Brasher, the distinguished Olympic athlete who was the newspaper's athletics correspondent and sports editor.
		Brasher was one of life's action men, most alive when time was of the essence and the challenge at its greatest.
		Brasher could have run the first quarter in 55 seconds without my realising it, because I felt so full of running, but I should have had to pay for it later.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4859112-108365,00.html (663 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Athletics \| Marathon founder Brasher dies
		Chris Brasher CBE, co-founder of the London Marathon, has died at the age of 74.
		Brasher was president of London Marathon Limited and won an Olympic gold medal in 1956 in the steeplechase.
		Brasher won recognition for his founding role when he accepted a CBE in 1996 while John Major was Prime Minister.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/athletics/2807839.stm (342 words)

	Chris Brasher: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Brasher was born in Georgetown, EHandler: no quick summary.
		The steeplechase was initially a form of horse-racing, but the term is now applied to similar other events as well....
		Brasher was awarded the CBE[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] in 1996.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chris_brasher.htm (627 words)

	JMT Trustees' Meeting: Minutes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Chris Brasher had previously circulated, by e-mail, amendments to the minutes of June 1 and 2 and these were dealt with first.
		Chris Brasher felt that staff should not be burdened with convening the meetings for the Working Parties and that Trustees should take a more active role.
		Chris Brasher was concerned about the Award which is appearing to budget a substantial loss over the next two years.
	www.jmt.org /trustees/2002/0208.html (2434 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Athletics \| Farewell to a visionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Brasher was born in Guyana, where his father, a radio engineer, started the post and telegraph service.
		He and Chris Chataway were the pacemakers as Bannister became the first man to break the four-minute barrier for the mile.
		Having confounded the athletics world, Brasher returned to his career as a broadcaster with the BBC and journalist with The Observer, twice winning an award as Sports Writer of the Year.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/athletics/1507798.stm (592 words)

	History and Heroes from every Olympic Games since 1896; Sunday Times Great British Olympians
		Chris Brasher will be 72 next month, reaching the time in life when each candle must stand for a decade and the grandchildren should be helping him to blow them out.
		Before the starter sounded the gun, Disley turned to Brasher: "Chris, if I don't win, I hope you do." Not fully recovered from an earlier illness, Disley was short of his best and even though he wished his friend well, he didn't seriously believe Brasher would do it.
		Brasher saw the potential for a London marathon, went into partnership with his friend Disley, and created the world's best marathon.
	www.times-olympics.co.uk /historyheroes/stgbo08.html (2087 words)

	NEMT News & Views Spring 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Chris Brasher, athlete, journalist, sports administrator, businessman, mountaineer and co-founder of the John Muir Trust died of cancer on 28 February.
		Brasher's controlled running of the first two laps in 1 min 58.2 sec provided the ideal foundation for Bannister's eventual time of 3 min 59.4sec.
		He also set up the Chris Brasher Trust in 1988 for the conservation of wild land in the UK, the improvement of mountain rescue facilities and the education of promising young sportsmen and women.
	www.users.zetnet.co.uk /nemt/views/51/51_1.htm (376 words)

	American Track and Field -- Regional News Article
		Chris Brasher was a member of the three musketeers, as they were called-he lead the first sub four minute mile for 800 meters, before Chris Chataway took Sir Roger Bannister through the 1320 mark, and Sir Roger went on to the first sub four minute mile, running 3.59.4 at Iffley Road Track, Oxford, England.
		It was determined that he had not impeded the runner, and Brasher became an Olympic gold medalist.
		During a career as a writer, Brasher was fascinated with the NYC Marathon in 1980, and founded the London Marathon in 1981.
	www.american-trackandfield.com /news/chrisbrasherobit.html (231 words)

	NameTraq \| Last Name: Brasher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Councilman George Brasher said he believed the property in the area is now zoned as agriculture and that in order to get residents in the area to agree to be...
		Ron Brasher, of DR Brasher, Inc., the architect on the project, said his company's involvement was limited to initial drawings, which if followed would have...
		Chris Brasher, Corinthian Olympic champion, enlightened entrepreneur and only begetter of the London Marathon, died of cancer at 74, as did the pathfinder...
	www.nametraq.org /Jan04/B/Brasher.shtml (1335 words)

	AM - Peace-keepers arrive in Monrovia
		CHRIS BRASHER: Well I think the people are very hopeful that this is going to be, going to bring a solution to the situation, and certainly they've voted with their feet in the middle of town anyway.
		CHRIS BRASHER: Yeah, we've only seen, I think, three people today with new war wounds, and we've been averaging about a dozen a day for the few days before that, which were relatively quiet compared to the week before.
		CHRIS BRASHER: They basically think that the only hope that they have now is that somebody's going to impose a peace upon the warring parties.
	www.abc.net.au /am/content/2003/s917402.htm (468 words)

	CUH&H: chris brasher college league and college cuppers
		The Chris Brasher College League consists of 5 races during the Michaelmas and Lent terms.
		In the 2004-05 season, the College League was renamed after Chris Brasher, one of the greatest athletes ever to run for Cambridge.
		Chris studied at St John's College and went on to win gold in the steeplechase at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.
	www.srcf.ucam.org /cuhh/competition/collegeleague.php (402 words)

	The Scotsman - S2 - OUTDOORS: Bold as Brash
		Chris Brasher set the pace for Roger Bannister during the historic race.
		Chris Brasher won’t be at Monday’s Royal Scottish Geographical Society awards dinner in Edinburgh, to receive the society’s prestigious Livingstone Medal.
		Brasher co-owns him with the Travellers Club, and points out that Telemachus was the son of that greatest of mythical travellers, Odysseus.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /s2.cfm?id=1101472002 (751 words)

	History of Sweatshop
		Sweatshop was founded in 1971 by Chris Brasher, Olympic gold medallist and co-creator of the London Marathon.
		Not originally selected for the Olympics and in the words of the BBC commentary team, 'looking rather heavy', Chris Brasher was far from being favourite to take the 3000m steeplechase title in the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games.
		Chris Brasher believed that to be your best you had to wear the best equipment available.
	www.sweatshop.co.uk /history.cfm (674 words)

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