GHOSTRUNNER TORRENT CODE

National Territorial Army Championships (Cross Country): Champion in 1960, 1961. National Road Runners Club (Marathon): Champion in 1962.

National Championships (20 miles): Champion in 1960. Herefordshire County (6 miles) track championship: Winner 1962, 1966, 1967. Stanger to Durban Goldtop (50 miles): Winner 1970. Woodford to Southend (36 miles): Winner 1964. South London Harriers (30 miles): Winner 1962, 1967. Hereford to Ross-on-Wye (14 miles): Winner 1960, 1962.

Salford Harriers (10 miles) track championship: Winner 1958–1966. Set course record of 2 h 26 m 44 s in 1962.Ĭity of Liverpool (Marathon): Winner in 1960. Isle of Wight (Marathon): Winner in 1960–1962. London to Brighton (52 miles): Winner 1967. Set course record in 1967 - time 4 h 55 m 56 s. Liverpool to Blackpool (48 miles): Winner 1965, 1967. Set course record in 1967 - time 4 h 44 m 35 s. Set course record in 1965 - time 4 h 11 m 26 s.Įxeter to Plymouth (44 miles): Winner 1965–1967. Walton-on-Thames (100 miles) 1969: World Record time 12 h 31 m 10 s Maindy Stadium (40 miles) 1966: World Record time 4 h 3 m 28 s. While participating in the 90 km Comrades Marathon in South Africa in 1968 (in which he finished fourth), he became aware of the apartheid conditions there, and (as a white man) began to enter the first ever 'multi-racial' races there as a form of support, notably winning the 80 km Goldtop Stanger-to-Durban race in 1970. In 1967 he became the first man ever to win the season's grand slam in Britain's four principal ultra-marathons (the London-to-Brighton, Isle of Man, Exeter-to-Plymouth, and Liverpool-to-Blackpool). In the 1960s he turned to ultra-marathons, and set world records for 40-mile and 100-mile distances. Nicknamed 'The Ghost Runner' by the Press, his popularity eventually led to a relaxation of the ban against him: from 1958 he was permitted to compete nationally, but would remain ineligible to be selected for his country, and hence never competed at the Olympic Games. ĭespite this setback, he continued to train, and (with the assistance of his brother Victor) began to gatecrash races to which he was officially refused entry, often out-performing recognised champions of the day.

GHOSTRUNNER TORRENT CODE

Due to the strict amateur code enforced at the time, he was immediately banned from competition for life. On being asked whether he had ever played sport for money, he chose to answer honestly and declared his brief career in prize-fighting. In 1952 John applied to join the Salford Harriers in order to register with the Amateur Athletic Association of England. Accordingly, he gave up boxing the following year and turned his sights to training for the marathon, hoping to compete at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. He did not much enjoy boxing, but found during his training that he had a talent for long-distance running. In 1950, at the age of 18, John took up boxing in Buxton, and earned a total of £17 at prize-fights in his local Town Hall. In 1947 his father remarried, and the family moved to Buxton in the Peak District in Derbyshire. John and his younger brother Victor (born 1934) were raised in a children's home in Kent until his father was demobilised at the end of the war. During the Second World War, with his father away on active service, his mother died of tuberculosis. John Tarrant was born in Shepherd's Bush, London, in 1932 to John and Edna ( née Sorrell). John Tarrant (4 February 1932 – 18 January 1975) was an English long-distance runner, nicknamed 'The Ghost Runner' for his habit of 'gatecrashing' races from which he was barred due to his 'non-amateur' status, acquired during a brief career as a teenage prize-fighter.

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