5000 m – 13:36.8 (1956) 10000 m – 29:15.49 (1960)[1]
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
1956 Melbourne
5,000 metres
European Championships
1958 Stockholm
5,000 metres
Douglas Alistair Gordon Pirie (10 February 1931 – 7 December 1991) was an English long-distance runner. He competed in the 5000 m and 10,000 m events at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won a silver medal in the 5000 m in 1956, placing fourth in 1952. Born in Leeds, Pirie grew up in Coulsdon, Surrey, and ran for the South London Harriers. He died of cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer) in Lymington, Hampshire.
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Douglas Alistair GordonPirie (10 February 1931 – 7 December 1991) was an English long-distance runner. He competed in the 5000 m and 10,000 m events at...
Olympics in Melbourne. His chief opponent in the 5000 m was British runner GordonPirie, who had broken the world record earlier that year. However, Kuts had...
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Lady Cumming Gordon spread rumours of these allegations. Jane Pirie and Marianne Woods denied the allegations and sued Lady Cumming Gordon for £10,000...
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soldiered on and in 1960, in a bid to enter the Rome Olympics, he copied GordonPirie who, when he was struggling for form, increased his racing and took part...
2017". BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 6 August 2017. Pirie, Mark (2 August 2017). "Director of football Gordon Dalziel hopes for appointment at Airdrie amid...
leading milers, including Paavo Nurmi, Sydney Wooderson, John Landy, GordonPirie, and Roger Bannister. The race has been won by eleven Olympic champions...
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