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Chris Brasher (d. age 74) and Sports Medicine
Medical Director, London Marathon and Medical Director, LSMI 1985–92
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Chris Brasher, pacemaker for the first four minute mile, Olympic gold for the steeplechase in 1956, innovative sports journalist, BBC executive, founder of the London Marathon, successful mountain boot designer and sports shoe retailer, environmentalist, latterly race horse owner, and, above all, enthusiast. Brasher’s recent death has revealed even to his friends new facets to a multi-talented man. This included an interest in sports medicine.
Brasher was a member of BASEM and was convinced that the non athlete could benefit from rising to a physical challenge, and founded the London Marathon on that basis. He recruited me as medical director, (provisional on certain conditions which he readily accepted). Brasher encouraged and supported and—when he could—attended the Marathon Medicine conferences I organised in association with the marathon, the biggest being the three day International Conference in 2000, to which he contributed and wrote the introduction to the subsequent book Marathon Medicine
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