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Harold Maurice Abrahams

Hebrew: הרולד מוריס אברהמס
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Birthplace: Bedford, Bedfordshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: January 14, 1978 (78)
Enfield, London, England (United Kingdom)
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Son of Isaac Jacob Abrahams and Esther Abrahams (Klonimus) nee Isaacs
Husband of Sybil Abrahams and Sybil Marjorie Evers
Father of Private; Private; Private and Private
Brother of Sir Adolphe Abrahams OBE FRCP; Ida Marks; Sir Sidney Solomon Abrahams Kt KC; Dorothy Abrahams and Lionel Abrahams

Managed by: David Barry Kaplan
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About Harold Maurice Abrahams

Harold Maurice Abrahams, CBE, (15 December 1899 – 14 January 1978) was a British athlete of Jewish origin. He was Olympic champion in 1924 in the 100 metres sprint, a feat depicted in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire.

Abrahams's father Isaac had emigrated to England from Russian Poland. He worked as a financier and settled in Bedford with his Welsh wife Ester. Harold was born in Bedford, and was the younger brother of another British athlete, the Olympic long jumper Sir Sidney Abrahams. Another brother, Sir Adolphe Abrahams, became the founder of British sport medicine.

Abrahams was educated at Bedford School, Repton School and then at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, from 1920 to 1924. He then trained as a lawyer. At Cambridge, he was a member of the Cambridge University Athletics Club (of which he was president 1922–1923), Cambridge University Liberal Club the Pitt Club, and the Gilbert and Sullivan Society. Before going to Cambridge he served as a lieutenant in the British Army.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Abrahams

While at Cambridge, Harold was romantically involved with the seriously academic Christina McLeod Innes, and they became informally engaged, but their relationship waned and ended as Abrahams began focusing exclusively on his athletics and the Olympics.

In early 1934, Abrahams met D'Oyly Carte singer Sybil Evers, and they began a passionate on-and-off romance. According to his biographer Mark Ryan, Abrahams had a fear of commitment and old-fashioned ideas about the role of women in marriage, but he was able to overcome these, and the couple wed in December 1936. In the film Chariots of Fire, Evers is misidentified as D'Oyly Carte soprano Sybil Gordon (portrayed by Alice Krige), and the film portrays the couple as meeting a decade earlier than they actually did. Because of a serious illness and surgery in her youth, Sybil Evers could not have children, so Abrahams and Evers adopted: an eight-week-old son, Alan, in 1942, and a nearly three-year-old daughter, Sue, in 1946; Sue later married nuclear activist Pat Pottle. During the Nazi regime and war, the couple also fostered two Jewish refugees: a German boy called "Ken Gardner" (born Kurt Katzenstein), and an Austrian girl named Minka.

Evers died in 1963 at the age of 59, and Harold set up two awards in her name: the Sybil Evers Memorial Prize for Singing (1965–1995), an annual cash prize awarded to the best female singer in her last year at the Webber Douglas School of Singing and Dramatic Art, and the Sybil Abrahams Memorial Trophy, presented each year from 1964 onward at Buckingham Palace by the Duke of Edinburgh, President of the British Amateur Athletics Association, to the best British woman athlete.

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About הרולד מוריס אברהמס (עברית)

הרולד מוריס אברהמס

' (באנגלית: Harold Maurice Abrahams; ‏15 בדצמבר 1899 - 14 בינואר 1978) היה אתלט יהודי-בריטי. הוא היה אלוף אולימפי בריצת 100 מטר, אירוע שתואר ב-1981 בסרט זוכה 4 פרסי אוסקר, "מרכבות האש".

קורות חיים אברהמס נולד בבדפורד. אביו, איזק, היגר לאנגליה מפולין הקונגרסאית. הוא עבד בתור איש כספים ונישא לאסתר ילידת ויילס. אחיו הבכור, סיר סידני אברהמס היה אתלט אולימפי בקפיצה לרוחק ונשיא בית המשפט העליון של סרי לנקה. אברהמס למד בבית ספר רמפטון ואחר כך בג'ונסוויל וכאיוס קולג' שבאוניברסיטת קיימברידג'. הוא היה אצן וקופץ לרוחק מאז ילדותו, והמשיך לעשות זאת גם כשלמד בקיימברידג'.

באולימפיאדת אנטוורפן (1920), בלגיה סיים אברהמס במקום 16 בריצת 100 מטר, במקום 11 בריצת 200 מטר בתוצאה של 23.0 שניות, במקום 20 בקפיצה לרוחק בתוצאה של 6.05 מטר ובמקום רביעי בריצת שליחים 4x100 מטר בתוצאה של 43.0 שניות.

בארבע שנים שלאחר אולימפיאדת אנטוורפן שלט אברהמס בריצות הקצרות ובקפיצות לרוחק בבריטניה.

באולימפיאדת פריז (1924), צרפת זכה אברהמס בשתי מדליות: מדליית זהב בריצת 100 מטר בשיא אולימפי חדש של 10.6 שניות, תוצאה שקבע פעמיים נוספות כבר בשלבים המוקדמים, תוך שהוא מביס את כל האצנים האמריקאים הפייבוריטים, כולל את האלוף האולימפי מאולימפיאדת אנטוורפן צ'ארלי פדוק מארצות הברית, ומדליית כסף בריצת שליחים 4x100 מטר בתוצאה של 41.2 שניות, אחרי הרביעייה האמריקאית שקבעה שיא עולם חדש של 41.0 שניות. בריצת 200 מטר הוא סיים במקום השישי בתוצאה של 22.3 שניות. אריק לידל, השתתף בריצה זו וזכה במדליית הארד. הוא לא השתתף בקפיצה לרוחק באולימפיאדה זו. שנה לאחר מכן, אברהמס נפצע ברגלו, מה שגרם לו להודיע על פרישה.

לאחר פרישתו, היה אברהמס עיתונאי ספורט במשך ארבעים שנה, והיה גם פרשן ספורט ברדיו ה-BBC.

אברהמס התנצר בשנת 1934. בשנת 1936 הוא התחתן עם סיביל אוורס, זמרת מצו סופרן. הזוג אימץ בן ובת.

הרולד אברהמס מת באנפילד שבלונדון ב-14 בינואר 1978. הוא היה בן 78 במותו.

שיאים אישיים ריצת 100 יארד: 9.9 שניות (1924) ריצת 100 מטר: 10.6 שניות (1924) ריצת 220 יארד: 21.6 שניות (1923) ריצת 200 מטר: 21.9 שניות (1924) ריצת 440 יארד: 50.8 שניות (1923) קפיצה לרוחק: 7.38 מטר (1924) קישורים חיצוניים ויקישיתוף מדיה וקבצים בנושא הרולד אברהמס בוויקישיתוף הרולד אברהמס , באתר Sports-Reference הרולד אברהמס , באתר Track and Field (גברים) https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%93_%D7%90...

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Harold Maurice Abrahams, CBE, (15 December 1899 – 14 January 1978) was a British athlete of Jewish origin. He was Olympic champion in 1924 in the 100 metres sprint, a feat depicted in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire.

Abrahams's father Isaac had emigrated to England from Russian Poland. He worked as a financier and settled in Bedford with his Welsh wife Ester. Harold was born in Bedford, and was the younger brother of another British athlete, the Olympic long jumper Sir Sidney Abrahams. Another brother, Sir Adolphe Abrahams, became the founder of British sport medicine.

Abrahams was educated at Bedford School, Repton School and then at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, from 1920 to 1924. He then trained as a lawyer. At Cambridge, he was a member of the Cambridge University Athletics Club (of which he was president 1922–1923), Cambridge University Liberal Club the Pitt Club, and the Gilbert and Sullivan Society. Before going to Cambridge he served as a lieutenant in the British Army.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Abrahams

While at Cambridge, Harold was romantically involved with the seriously academic Christina McLeod Innes, and they became informally engaged, but their relationship waned and ended as Abrahams began focusing exclusively on his athletics and the Olympics.

In early 1934, Abrahams met D'Oyly Carte singer Sybil Evers, and they began a passionate on-and-off romance. According to his biographer Mark Ryan, Abrahams had a fear of commitment and old-fashioned ideas about the role of women in marriage, but he was able to overcome these, and the couple wed in December 1936. In the film Chariots of Fire, Evers is misidentified as D'Oyly Carte soprano Sybil Gordon (portrayed by Alice Krige), and the film portrays the couple as meeting a decade earlier than they actually did. Because of a serious illness and surgery in her youth, Sybil Evers could not have children, so Abrahams and Evers adopted: an eight-week-old son, Alan, in 1942, and a nearly three-year-old daughter, Sue, in 1946; Sue later married nuclear activist Pat Pottle. During the Nazi regime and war, the couple also fostered two Jewish refugees: a German boy called "Ken Gardner" (born Kurt Katzenstein), and an Austrian girl named Minka.

Evers died in 1963 at the age of 59, and Harold set up two awards in her name: the Sybil Evers Memorial Prize for Singing (1965–1995), an annual cash prize awarded to the best female singer in her last year at the Webber Douglas School of Singing and Dramatic Art, and the Sybil Abrahams Memorial Trophy, presented each year from 1964 onward at Buckingham Palace by the Duke of Edinburgh, President of the British Amateur Athletics Association, to the best British woman athlete.

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Harold Maurice Abrahams's Timeline

1899
December 15, 1899
Bedford, Bedfordshire, England (United Kingdom)
1978
January 14, 1978
Age 78
Enfield, London, England (United Kingdom)