Jim Alder

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Medal record
Men’s Athletics
Commonwealth Games
Gold	1966 Kingston	Marathon
Bronze	1966 Kingston	6 Miles
European Championships
Bronze	1969 Athens	Marathon
Commonwealth Games
Silver	1970 Edinburgh	Marathon

James ("Jim") Noel Carroll Alder MBE (born 10 June 1940 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a British former distance runner, from Morpeth.

Alder's athletic career saw him compete at the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston winning Marathon Gold, (having missed the 1964 Summer Olympics due to a knee injury). The 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City and The 1969 European Championships in Athens

He set a new world record for 30km of 1hr 34min 01.8sec in 1964. In that race he also set world records for 20km (1hr 40min 58.0sec) and 2 hours (37,994 metres). The IAAF did not recognise the latter two marks for world records, but they were accepted as United Kingdom national records

Alder ran his last Marathon in The 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh

Most recently he was featured in The Sunday Times, on April 15, 2007.*[1]

Alder featured on the BBC One series Inside Sport on October 10, 2007, interviewed by Ray Stubbs.

His biography is called Marathon and Chips

[edit] External links

• Sporting Heroes [2]
• Amazon - Marathon and Chips [3]
• Marathon and Chips review [4]
• The Sunday Times article (2001) [5]