Chris Brasher CBE (21 August 1928 – 28 February 2003) was a British athlete, sports journalist and co-founder of the London Marathon. Christopher William Brasher was born in Georgetown, the capital of Guyana. Brasher was a student of the Duke of York's Royal Military School and later a graduate of St John's College, Cambridge. In 1954, he acted as pacemaker for Roger Bannister when the latter ran the first sub-four-minute mile at the Iffley Road Stadium in Oxford. Wikipedia
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