Sir Brendan Foster CBE (born 12 January 1948) is a British former long-distance runner, athletics commentator and road race organiser. He founded the Great...
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was instigated by Brendan Foster, a Gateshead Council employee at that time. By breaking the world record in the men's 3,000 m, Foster brought international...
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co-founder of Mozilla Brendan Fevola (born 1981), Australian footballer Brendan Fraser (born 1968), Canadian-American actor Brendan Foster (born 1948), British...
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former Olympic 10,000 m bronze medallist and BBC Sport commentator Brendan Foster. The first Great North Run was staged on 28 June 1981, when 12,000 runners...
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13 minutes and 46 seconds. Subsequently commentators Steve Cram and Brendan Foster noted that only 88 British women had run a sub-3-hour marathon during...
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popularity since the olympic and international success of Northeast athletes Brendan Foster in the 1970s and Steve Cram in the 1980s. Both won international medals...
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000-metre final comparatively easily, because even Great Britain's Brendan Foster dropped from the steadily accelerating pace of Portugal's Carlos Lopes...
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at Monkton Stadium, home of Jarrow and Hebburn Athletic Club, where Brendan Foster, Steve Cram and David Sharpe are notable past runners. A short lived...
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it is part of the Great Run series created by former British athlete Brendan Foster. It was originally held in Southampton, but the race moved to its current...
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Ethiopia 1976 Montreal details Lasse Virén Finland Carlos Lopes Portugal Brendan Foster Great Britain 1980 Moscow details Miruts Yifter Ethiopia Kaarlo Maaninka...
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