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Chris Brasher

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British athlete, journalist and co-founder of the London Marathon. Brasher ran the New York City Marathon in 1979, wrote about it in The Observer as the greatest folk festival the world has seen, and with John Disley built a London race on that model, first run on 29 March 1981. His role is the clearest single piece of evidence that the mass-participation marathon was transmitted deliberately between cities rather than emerging independently: London is a copy of New York, made by someone who went to look.

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    2. British athlete, journalist and co-founder of the London Marathon. Brasher ran the New York City Marathon in 1979, wrote about it in The Observer as the greatest folk festival the world has seen, and with John Disley built a London race on that model, first run on 29 March 1981. His role is the clearest single piece of evidence that the mass-participation marathon was transmitted deliberately between cities rather than emerging independently: London is a copy of New York, made by someone who went to look.
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    9. The London Marathon was founded by Chris Brasher and John Disley after Brasher ran New York in 1979; the first race on 29 March 1981 accepted 7,747 of about 20,000 applicants, had 6,255 finishers, and ended in a dead heat between Dick Beardsley and Inge Simonsen. V55 verification basis: read through an attributed search summary. Note that the URL carries a former sponsor name and may redirect; a curator should replace it with the current organiser URL.
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