Christopher Chataway
Christopher Chataway was born in Chelsea, London, England on January 31st, 1931 and is the Entrepreneur. At the age of 82, Christopher Chataway biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Sir Christopher John Chataway (31 January 1931–19 January 2014) was a British middle- and long distance runner, television news broadcaster, and a Centrist politician.
Education
He was born in Chelsea, London, and the son of James Denys Pers Perpetual Chataway, OBE. Since his father was a member of the Sudan Political Service, he spent his childhood in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He was educated at Sherborne School, where he excelled at rugby, boxing, and gymnastics, but did not win a race until he was 16 years old, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he earned a philosophy, politics, and economics degree but his studies were overshadowed by his athletics career as a long-distance runner.
Personal life
He was married twice; firstly, to Anna Lett (1959, divorced 1975), and then, to Carola Walker (1976-1977), with whom he had two more sons and a daughter.
Charles Walker, a Conservative MP, and his brother-in-law Peter Hordern are his stepsons.
Athletics career
Chataway had a short but distinguished athletic career. After being passed over on the last bend by Czech long-distance runner Emil Zátopek, France's Alain Mimoun, and West Germany's Herbert Schade, Chataway's foot brushed the curb and crashed headlong to the ground, he collapsed headlong to the ground, he crashed headlong to the ground at the Helsinki Olympic Games of 1952. Chataway was ranked fifth in the race. After graduating from college, he began working at Guinness as an executive. When Sir Hugh Beaver of Guinness suggested that the Guinness Book of Records be published, it was Chataway and his old university acquaintances Norris and Ross McWhirter as editors, aware of their love for facts.
Chataway's campaign was also ongoing. Roger Bannister was the first sub-four minutes to run at Oxford University's Iffley Road Track on May 6, 1954. Chataway and Chris Brasher were his pacemakers. At the European Athletic Championships Championship of 1954, he came in second place, 12.2 seconds behind champion Vladimir Kuts, but a few weeks later turned the tables in a London vs. Moscow athletics tournament in White City, clocking a world record time of 13 minutes 51.6 seconds. Chataway was made a sports celebrity on YouTube, and he received the first BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in December. Chataway retired from international athletics after winning in the 1956 Olympics, but he continued to compete for Thames Hare and Hounds.
Business career
Chataway, a former minister of the United States, announced his resignation from politics (at the age of 43), and did not seek re-election at the October 1974 election. He then went into work as the managing director of Orion Bank, a consortium bank that was later purchased by one of its shareholders, the Royal Bank of Canada. He served with Orion, later as Vice Chairman, for 15 years. He held various non-executive directorships. He served as the first Chairman of Groundwork, the environmental charity and Hon Treasurer of the National Campaign for Electoral Reform.
ActionAid, a small overseas development charity of which he became Hon Treasurer in 1974 and later Chairman, was his main outside interest. ActionAid's annual turnover had increased to nearly £100 million by the time he left the Board of trustees in 1999. When Chataway's son Adam decided to start a water project in Ethiopia in honor of his fiancée's death in a road traffic crash, he did it in collaboration with ActionAid. Vicky's Water Project, which opened in 2010, has changed the lives of 20,000 people.
Chataway was appointed chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority in 1991, a position he resents not least because his father was one of the first aviators. Chris Brasher invented the London Marathon in 1990 and 2009, he aided his friend Chris Brasher in establishing the London Marathon. In the 1995 Birthday Honours for services to the aviation industry, he was honoured.
In the 2005 general election, his stepson Charles Walker was elected as a Conservative MP for Broxbourne.