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Abrahams at the 1924 Olympics. Harold Maurice Abrahams CBE (15 December 1899 – 14 January 1978) was an English track and field athlete. He was Olympic champion in 1924 in the 100 metres sprint, a feat depicted in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.
Thanks to the film Chariots of Fire and its memorable soundtrack by Vangelis, everyone knows the story of British sprinters Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell, the respective winners of gold in the 100m and 400m at the Games of the VIII Olympiad. But what really happened on the cinder track at the Stade Olympique de Colombes 95 years ago during ...
Dec. 15, 1899, Bedford, England. Died: Jan. 14, 1978, London (aged 78) Awards And Honors: Olympic Games. Harold Abrahams (born Dec. 15, 1899, Bedford, England—died Jan. 14, 1978, London) was a British athlete who won a gold medal in the 100-metre dash at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris.
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Ben Cross as Harold Abrahams, a Jewish student at Cambridge University; Ian Charleson as Eric Liddell, the son of Scottish missionaries to China; Nigel Havers as Lord Andrew Lindsay, a Cambridge student runner (partially based on David Burghley and Douglas Lowe) Nicholas Farrell as Aubrey Montague, a runner and friend of Harold Abrahams
The stories of British runners Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams are known to many through the 1981 Academy Award-winning film Chariots of Fire. As the movie tells it, Liddell was boarding a boat to the 1924 Paris Olympics when he discovered that the qualifying heats for his event, the 100-metre.
As a schoolboy at Repton, Harold won the 100 yards and the long jump at the 1918 Public Schools championships and then went up to Caius College, Cambridge, where during his four years’ residence he won a total of eight events in the annual match against Oxford. During his years at Cambridge, Abrahams had his first experience of international ...
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