John Disley (1928–2016)
Autor(a) de Orienteering
About the Author
Obras de John Disley
Your Way with Map and Compass - Orienteering Student's Book 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Disley, John Ivor
- Data de nascimento
- 1928-11-20
- Data de falecimento
- 2016-02-08
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Wales, UK
- Local de nascimento
- Corris, Wales
- Locais de residência
- Corris, Wales
Oswestry, England - Educação
- Oswestry boys high school
Loughborough University (1946) - Ocupação
- athlete
sports administrator
Olympic athlete (bronze medal|3000m steeplechase|Helsinki Games 1952) - Organizações
- International Athletes Club (co-founder and inaugural chairman)
Plas y Brenin national mountain sports centre (chief instructor)
British Orienteering Federation (inaugural secretary|1967)
Sports Council (vice chairman|1967-1974)
London Marathon (co-founder) - Premiações
- bronze medal (3000m steeplechase|Helsinki Olympics 1952)
CBE (1979)
Welsh Sports Hall of Fame (1998)
Membros
Resenhas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 7
- Membros
- 38
- Popularidade
- #383,442
- Avaliação
- 5.0
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 12
- Idiomas
- 1
This was my sport in high school. I was in terrible shape and was always one of the very last ones in but I always finished the course. One memorable event was such a hard course that when I finished, the organizers were almost done packing the truck. (A 30 minute course had taken me 3 hours.) But my bullheadedness for once helped: I came in third because everyone smart had dropped out.
But I still love the sport: an individual sport requiring thinking and moving at the same time, often a chore for me. But it makes the moving part easier at least.… (mais)