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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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)...

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)...

dedicated by Edwyn Hoskyns, Bishop of Southwell on 1 November 1922. Harold Abrahams, the Olympic champion in the 100m sprint in the 1924 Paris Olympics...

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...

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...

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;...

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...

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...

film. There was never a race in which Abrahams beat Burghley in this feat as the film suggests; in fact, Abrahams never attempted the Great Court Run....

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

College, Cambridge, where he studied medicine, and was a contemporary of Harold Abrahams. Stallard was a member of the University Athletics team in 1920, 1921...

of running shoes for the British team in the 1924 Summer Olympics. Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell won the 100 m and 400 m events, kitted out with Foster's...

Music. The song is featured in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire, where Harold Abrahams first sees his future wife dressed as one of the Three Little Maids...

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

coeducational. The following are notable alumni of Repton School: Harold Abrahams, 100-metre Gold Medallist, 1924 Olympics Charles A. Adeogun-Phillips...

Christie became the third British athlete to win the Olympic 100 m, after Harold Abrahams and Allan Wells, winning the title ahead of Frankie Fredericks of Namibia...