Chris Brasher
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Christopher William Brasher CBE was a British track and field athlete, Olympic champion, sports journalist and co-founder of the London Marathon.
Memorial in St Peter's Church, Petersham
Christopher Chataway
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Sir Christopher John Chataway was a British middle- and long-distance runner, television news broadcaster and Conservative politician.
Chris Brasher
…when the latter ran the first sub-four-minute mile at Iffley Road Stadium in Oxford. Brasher paced Bannister for the first two laps, while his friend Chris Chataway paced the third. Two years later, at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Brasher finished first in the 3,000 metres steeplechase with a time of 8…
Chataway in 1972