| LC control no. | n 50025552 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Disley, John |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Birth date | 1928-11-20 |
| Death date | 2016-02-08 |
| Place of birth | Corris (Wales) |
| Field of activity | Sports Running Mountaineering Orienteering |
| Affiliation | British Orienteering Federation Sports Council (Great Britain) London Marathon |
| Profession or occupation | Athletes Runners (Sports) Sports administrator |
| Found in | His Tackle climbing this way, 1960, c1959. Guardian WWW site, viewed Feb. 17, 2016 (John Disley; John Ivor Disley, athlete and sports administrator, born 20 November 1928 in the north Wales village of Corris; died 8 February 2016; won a bronze medal in the steeplechase in the 3,000m steeplechase at the Helsinki [Olympic] Games in 1952; was on the British steeplechase team for the Melbourne Olympics in 1956; after Melbourne, he returned to his job as chief instructor at the national mountain climbing centre at Plas Y Brenin in north Wales; by 1967 the British Orienteering Federation had been formed, with Disley as its first secretary; co-founder with Chris Brasher of the London Marathon, first staged in 1981; for eight years from 1974 onwards, Disley served on the Sports Council as a vice chairman when Denis Howell was the sports minister; stepped down from the Sports Council in 1982) |
| Associated language | eng |
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