joe
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Post by joe on Jul 5, 2011 22:57:14 GMT
He was a world record holder in extreme distance events, but what do we know about the man nicknamed the ghost runner? John Tarrant, from Hereford, was banned from athletics meetings in the 1950s because he once won £17 as a teenage boxer. He gatecrashed events and after he jumped from the crowd to run in the 1956 Liverpool marathon the Daily Mail asked: "Who is the ghost runner?" After his ban was lifted he set world records at 40 and 100 mile distances. There is already a road named after him in Hereford, but one councillor has called for a statue to be erected to him in the city. Councillor Nick Nenadich wants local athletes to get in touch with the city council to see if more can be done in his memory. Mr Nenadich said: "People of Herefordshire are not very good, in my opinion, at flag waving and there a couple of people who we've been fortunate enough to have amongst us who are really world class athletes for their time. "Perhaps this [statue] would be a way of acknowledging that, rather belatedly." www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-13991600
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