Sydney Sarel

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Sydney Lancaster Sarel (born June 18, 1872 in Kensington , Greater London , † December 23, 1950 in Bethnal Green , Greater London) was a British athlete and Anglican dean .

life and career

Sarel studied at Keble College in Oxford , where he narrowly failed to win the university athlete 's award Blue in the 440-yard run . After completing his studies, he started a career in the Anglican Church and devoted himself increasingly to walking and cross-country running in athletics .

At the Championships of the Amateur Athletic Association in 1908, he finished fifth in walking over the distance of seven miles. At the Olympic Games of the same year , however, it was used over 3500 meters, and thus over the shorter of the two walking distances. There he had to compete against the later double Olympic champion George Larner in his preliminary run and finished only fifth in a time of 17: 06.0 minutes. Since only the first three of each heat qualified for the final, this meant the end for Sarel in the Olympic competition.

Sarel remained loyal to athletics throughout his life. In 1928 he was president of the London Athletic Club , in the post-war period he was vice-president of the Victoria Park Harriers and Tower Hamlets Athletics Club from east London .

As dean of the community in Bethnal Green, Sarel was known for getting into his running shorts at eleven o'clock every night until old age, putting on his Olympic hat and jogging around Victoria Park . This earned him the nickname The Parson in Shorts (in German The Pastor in Shorts ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Profile on sports-reference.com accessed on March 6, 2015
  2. ↑ Keble sport: the early years ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article on keble.ox.ac.uk, accessed on March 6, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.keble.ox.ac.uk
  3. ↑ a b Short biography at vphthac.org.uk , accessed on March 6, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Sarel, Sydney
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sarel, Sydney Lancaster (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British athlete and pastor
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Kensington , Greater London
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1950
Place of death Bethnal Green , Greater London