• Thumbnail for Brendan Foster
    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...
    14 KB (1,147 words) - 11:46, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gateshead International Stadium
    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...
    80 KB (7,607 words) - 23:58, 6 September 2024
  • co-founder of Mozilla Brendan Fevola (born 1981), Australian footballer Brendan Fraser (born 1968), Canadian-American actor Brendan Foster (born 1948), British...
    13 KB (1,345 words) - 14:13, 17 September 2024
  • 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...
    32 KB (1,971 words) - 09:50, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nell McAndrew
    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...
    17 KB (1,383 words) - 01:54, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for North East England
    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...
    161 KB (15,868 words) - 23:59, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lasse Virén
    000-metre final comparatively easily, because even Great Britain's Brendan Foster dropped from the steadily accelerating pace of Portugal's Carlos Lopes...
    18 KB (1,959 words) - 21:34, 21 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hebburn
    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...
    23 KB (2,159 words) - 11:44, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great South Run
    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...
    11 KB (525 words) - 17:42, 19 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 10,000 metres
     Ethiopia 1976 Montreal details Lasse Virén  Finland Carlos Lopes  Portugal Brendan Foster  Great Britain 1980 Moscow details Miruts Yifter  Ethiopia Kaarlo Maaninka...
    36 KB (806 words) - 01:47, 3 October 2024