John Bryan Herring (10 April 1935 – 7 October 2003), was a

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who ran in the 1964 Summer Olympic Games. He was assistant director of the

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, a member of the

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organising team and a long-time member of

Blackheath and Bromley Harriers Athletic Club Blackheath & Bromley Harriers AC is an athletics club based in South-East London, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies ...

Competitive career

He was a member of Blackheath Harriers. In 1964 he was ranked fourth in the UK behind Mike Wiggs, Fergus Murray and

Bruce Tulloh Michael Swinton "Bruce" Tulloh (29 September 1935 – 28 April 2018) was a long-distance runner from England. Athletics career He won the European title in the men's 5000 metres at the 1962 European Championships in Belgrade, Yugoslavia with a ...

. He represented Britain over 5000 metres in the

1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this ho ...

when Tulloh withdrew with measles. He remained a member of Blackheath Harriers for 50 years and in 2015 still holds the club record for Men Masters (over 40) mile at 4.23.3 set on 30 July 1975.

Personal Bests

Athletics Administration

From 1970 to 1987 he held the post of assistant director at the

. He became involved with the International Athletes' Club (IAC) and in his capacity as chairman of the IAC he became race director for the first IAC Coca-Cola sponsored invitation meeting at Crystal Palace in the early 1970s. The venue became the London home of athletics meetings when

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was demolished. After the successful first running of the

he was brought into the marathon's management team. He was responsible for the start for 12 years from 1982. From 1994 to 1996 he was the Marathon's course manager and from 1996 he was a consultant to the Marathon.

References

External links

Sports-reference olympic profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Herring, John 1935 births 2003 deaths English male middle-distance runners Olympic athletes for Great Britain Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics