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- Harold Abrahams was born in Bedford, England and educated at Caius College, Cambridge, where he began his athletic career. Arbrahams felt like an outsider because he was Jewish, but an equally motivating factor in his quest for Olympic gold was a desire to better the athletic accomplishments of his brothers.
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Abrahams's father, Isaac, was a Jewish immigrant from Polish Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire since the Partitions of Poland. He worked as a financier, and settled in Bedford with his Welsh Jewish wife, Esther Isaacs. [3] Harold was born in Bedford in 1899.
Jun 23, 2021 · Harold Maurice Abrahams (1899-1978) was born in Bedford, England, after his father, Isaac Klonimus, a Lithuanian Jew, escaped the pogroms of Russia-occupied Poland to settle in Britain. (He...
A broken leg (while long jumping) cut short Abrahams' competitive career one year after the l924 Olympiad. Nonetheless, he further distinguished himself as a sports journalist, broadcaster, and leader of Great Britain's amateur sports establishment. Sources: International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
Nov 24, 2011 · Harold Maurice Abrahams (1899–1978) – the British-Jewish athlete made famous by the film Chariots of Fire – won gold for Britain in the 100 m sprint in the 1924 Paris Olympics.
- David Gareth Dee
- 2012
Jul 7, 2013 · Abrahams and his (non-Jewish) wife, Sybil Evers, a singer with the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company whom he married in 1936, adopted two children in England in the 1940s. They also fostered two Jewish child refugees, one from Germany, the other from Austria.
- David B. Green
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Aug 5, 2024 · The true story of British track stars Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell winning gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics inspired the Oscar-winning film.
Olympic Gold Medalist (100-metre dash), whose experiences at the 1924 Olympics provided the subject of the 1981 film Chariots of Fire, which emphasized Abrahams’ Judaism and portrayed his victory as a personal triumph over anti-Semitism. Author of The Olympic Games, 1896-1956.
