Gordon Pirie was a middle distance runner and orienteerer. He was born on 10th February 1931 in Leeds. In 1955 he won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. He won silver in the 1956 Olympics for the 5000 metres Leeds is a major city in the northern English county of Yorkshire in the United Kingdom and the urban core of the City of Leeds metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire. ... The BBC Sports Personality of the Year award has been given to one British sportsperson each year since 1954. ...
Gordon's strong views on running shoe manufacturers always meant this would be a self-published venture, and my whole purpose in seeing this through was to fulfil my promise to Gordon to 'spread the word', before he died at a ridiculously early age of cancer.
Memorial Service for Gordon that was held in Fleet Street, London, and was attended by many athletics "luminaries".
Discussion of Gordon's approaches to training, including Gerschler's Interval Training, of which Gordon was a great advocate.
Group Captain Sir GordonPirie, who has died aged 85, was leader of Westminster City Council at the time of the amalgamation of the boroughs of Westminster, Paddington and St Marylebone, and a promoter of higher standards of local government across Europe.
But his parents' marriage ended in divorce when Gordon was eight; he returned to England to be taken under the wing of his paternal grandmother, and was educated at Eton as a King's scholar.
GordonPirie, who died on July 23, was knighted in 1984 and appointed CVO in 1987.
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