Gordon Pirie

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Medal record
Competitor for Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
Men’s Athletics
Olympic Games
Silver Melbourne 1956 5.000 metres
European Championships
Bronze Stockholm 1958 5.000 metres

Douglas Alistair Gordon Pirie (born February 10 1931, Leeds – died December 7 1991) was a middle-distance runner and orienteerer from England. In 1955 he won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. He won silver in the 1956 Summer Olympics in the men's 5.000 metres. Gordon Pirie broke 5 World Records in the course of his career, his annus mirabilis being 1956, when on June 19 in Bergen, Norway, he ran 13:36.8 for 5000m, beating Vladimir Kuts (USSR), and knocking 25 seconds from his own personal best. On June 22 in Trondheim, Norway, he broke the world 3000m record with 7:55.6, and on 14 September he reduced it again to 7:52.7. Pirie trained exceptionally hard and was advised by Woldemar Gerschler in Freiburg, Germany, who was a leading proponent of interval training. Gordon Pirie was an exceptional cross-country runner and won the English Championship three times.

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Records
Preceded by
Image:Flag of Hungary.svg Sandor Iharos 		Men's 3.000m World Record Holder
June 22, 1956 – June 27, 1962 		Succeeded by
Image:Flag of France.svg Michel Jazy
Awards
Preceded by
Image:Flag of England.svg Christopher Chataway 		BBC Sports Personality of the Year
1955 		Succeeded by
Image:Flag of England.svg Jim Laker
v • d • e
BBC Sports Personality of the Year winners

1954: Christopher Chataway · 1955: Gordon Pirie · 1956: Jim Laker · 1957: Dai Rees · 1958: Ian Black · 1959: John Surtees · 1960: David Broome · 1961: Stirling Moss · 1962: Anita Lonsborough · 1963: Dorothy Hyman · 1964: Mary Rand · 1965: Tom Simpson · 1966: Bobby Moore · 1967: Henry Cooper · 1968: David Hemery · 1969: Ann Jones · 1970: Henry Cooper · 1971: HRH The Princess Anne · 1972: Mary Peters · 1973: Jackie Stewart · 1974: Brendan Foster · 1975: David Steele · 1976: John Curry · 1977: Virginia Wade · 1978: Steve Ovett · 1979: Sebastian Coe · 1980: Robin Cousins · 1981: Ian Botham · 1982: Daley Thompson · 1983: Steve Cram · 1984: Torvill & Dean · 1985: Barry McGuigan · 1986: Nigel Mansell · 1987: Fatima Whitbread · 1988: Steve Davis · 1989: Nick Faldo · 1990: Paul Gascoigne · 1991: Liz McColgan · 1992: Nigel Mansell · 1993: Linford Christie · 1994: Damon Hill · 1995: Jonathan Edwards · 1996: Damon Hill · 1997: Greg Rusedski · 1998: Michael Owen · 1999: Lennox Lewis · 2000: Steve Redgrave · 2001: David Beckham · 2002: Paula Radcliffe · 2003: Jonny Wilkinson · 2004: Kelly Holmes · 2005: Andrew Flintoff · 2006: Zara Phillips · 2007: Joe Calzaghe

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