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...

the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice. Ben Cross and Ian Charleson star as Abrahams and Liddell, alongside...

young Harold Abrahams. The plaque was unveiled by Lord Terence Higgins, who competed in the 1948 and 1952 Olympics, and Ben Cross who played Abrahams in...

including on BBC radio and television. She married Olympic champion runner Harold Abrahams. Evers was born and raised in Rugby, Warwickshire. Her father Claude...

missionary Eric Liddell, and James McArdle as Jewish Cambridge student Harold Abrahams. For the production, stage designer Miriam Buether transformed the...

following the Olympics, when Montague and Abrahams were active on athletics boards, they became close friends, and Abrahams was the godfather of Montague's only...

Jackson Scholz and Charles Paddock, beating British rival and teammate Harold Abrahams, who finished in sixth place. This was the second and last race in...

Lanka). He was the older brother of famed Olympian Harold Abrahams. Born in Birmingham, England, Abrahams was educated at Bedford Modern School and Emmanuel...

Scottish Christian, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice. Cross trained hard for his role as Abrahams; his co-star Ian Charleson...

Arioald, king of the Lombards Harold Abrahams, British Olympic champion sprinter and subject of Chariots of Fire Harold Achor (1907–1967), Justice of...

Eighty-six sprinters from 34 countries competed. The event was won by Harold Abrahams of Great Britain—Great Britain's first Olympic gold medal in the men's...

by British athletes, and were made famous by 100m Olympic champion Harold Abrahams (who would be immortalized in the Oscar winning film Chariots of Fire)...

production of The Legend, adapted by Ella Hickson. In 2012, he starred as Harold Abrahams in Chariots of Fire, Mike Bartlett's stage adaptation of the film of...

by British athletes. They were made famous by 100m Olympic champion Harold Abrahams (who would be immortalized in the Oscar winning film Chariots of Fire)...

documentaries. Chariots of Fire, a 1981 historical drama focusing on Harold Abrahams' victory at the 1924 Paris Olympics, is among the most prominent. The...

in the 200 m, but was beaten to the gold in the 100 m by Britain's Harold Abrahams. The 100 m race, and the 400 m race won by Eric Liddell, are depicted...

sprinter to win the Amateur Athletic Association's 100 yards title since Harold Abrahams in 1924. He was also a leading British high jumper in this period....

Valentin About (1828–1885), French novelist, publicist and journalist Harold Abrahams, track and field athlete and Olympic champion. Initiated into Oxford...

generations. The most celebrated of the Jewish athletes in Britain was Harold Abrahams (1899–1978)-– the man made famous by the film Chariots of Fire for...

Chariots of Fire, she is misidentified as the fiancée of Olympic runner Harold Abrahams. Gordon was born Sophia Solomon in Manchester. Early in her career...

(later to become Archbishop of Canterbury) became headmaster in 1914. Harold Abrahams, the Olympic champion in the 100m sprint in the 1924 Paris Olympics...

world table tennis champion Deng Yaping; sprinter and athletics hero Harold Abrahams; inventors of the modern game of football, H. de Winton and J. C. Thring;...

Canada took the gold medal in 1928, the first non-North American since Harold Abrahams in 1924, the first man to run 100 meters in 10.0 seconds and the last...

athletes Harold Abrahams CBE and Sir Sidney Abrahams KC. He died on 11 December 1967. In the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire, about his brother Harold Abrahams...

player and barrister Guy Abrahams (born 1953), Panamanian athlete Harold Abrahams (1899–1978), British athlete Israel Abrahams (1858–1925), British scholar...

Event Gold Silver Bronze 100 metres details Harold Abrahams  Great Britain Jackson Scholz  United States Arthur Porritt  New Zealand 200 metres details...

by British athletes. They were made famous by 100m Olympic champion Harold Abrahams in the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris. In 1958, in Bolton, two...

One of its founding members was Evelyn Montague, who, along with Harold Abrahams, is portrayed in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. Evelyn Montague –...

Round, Simon (6 July 2012). "Television: Chariots of Fire and the real Harold Abrahams story". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 30 August 2019. "The Life of...

in the 3,000 m and cross country team events. The British runners Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell won the 100 m and the 400 m events, respectively....