Chris Brasher, the 1956 Olympic 3,000m steeplechase champion who co-founded the London Marathon, died today aged 74.
Brasher was also one of the pacemakers for Roger Bannister's famous four-minute mile at Oxford University in May 1954.
Brasher was initially disqualified and stripped of the gold medal at the Melbourne Games for allegedly fouling the Norwegian runner Ernst Larsen, who finished third.
However, neither Larsen nor Sandor Rozsnyol, the Hungarian who finished runner-up, complained and Brasher was reinstated by the Jury of Appeal three hours later.
He was Great Britain's only track winner at that summer's Games and their first since 1936. He was aged 28.
He later became a journalist and writer and organised the first London Marathon in 1981 after being inspired by New York's event.