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Jun 23, 2021 · A year after winning gold in Paris, Abrahams broke his leg while attempting to improve on his English long jump record, which lasted for over 30 years, thus ending his athletic career.
Feb 12, 2021 · According to a recent biography by Mark Ryan, “Harold Abrahams was neither a committed Christian nor Jew,” and if he believed anything, it was “that he didn’t want religion to restrict him in life.”
Sometime in the 1930s, Abrahams converted to Catholicism. Ugh. Now, that did not stop the International Jewish Hall of Fame from electing him, but... converting to Catholicism?
4 × 100 m relay. Abrahams at the 1924 Olympics. Harold Maurice Abrahams CBE (15 December 1899 – 14 January 1978) [3] 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.
- Harold Maurice Abrahams
- 165 lb (75 kg)
- 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Jun 27, 2017 · Abrahams did indeed convert to Christianity in 1936, so that one might well say that the “flying Scotsman,” who died as a missionary in a Japanese internment camp in 1945, triumphed in the end.
Keith Howland. Overview. Chariots of Fire is a compelling tale of two athletes who run for Great Britain in the 1924 Olympics in Paris. Both seek a gold medal, but each has his own motives....
His main British rival in the sprint, Eric Liddell, was a devout Christian and did not run in the 100-metre event, which was held on a Sunday; Liddell instead ran in the 400-metre, winning the gold medal. Abrahams shared a silver medal as a member of Britain’s 400-metre relay team.
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