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A sporting award to Adolphe Abrahams (1883–1967), considered to be the founder of British Sports Science and the elder brother of Solly and Harold Abrahams
Sport: Athletics, Aldershot Command Athletic Association, bronze medal, by Phillips of Aldershot, seated figure of Mercury, rev. 'COMMAND ANNUAL ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIPS. JULY 1919. RELAY RACE. SECOND TEAM. R.A.M.C. MAJOR A. ABRAHAMS', 32.5mm., good very fine and a rare association item
Sir Adolphe Abrahams, OBE, FRCP, was the eldest of the three famous sporting brothers. He studied at Cambridge, where he was sculling champion (1904–05). He served in the RAMC from 1915 to 1920, with the rank of Major, and was in charge of a Medical Division and Consultant Physician, Aldershot Command (mentioned in despatches). He was medical officer in charge of the British Olympic teams from 1912 until 1948, president of the British Association of Sports and Medicine, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. The second brother Sir Solly Abrahams competed in the 1906 and 1912 Olympic Games. In 1947 he was elected president of Britain's oldest athletic club, the London Athletic Club. The third brother was Harold Abrahams, in 1924 the first European to win an Olympic sprint gold medal. He had also participated in the 1920 Olympic Games. In 1924 he established a British long jump record of 24 feet, 2½ inches, a record that stood for the next 32 years. Harold Abrahams was immortalised in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.
(Estimate: 80-120 GBP)
Sport: Athletics, Aldershot Command Athletic Association, bronze medal, by Phillips of Aldershot, seated figure of Mercury, rev. 'COMMAND ANNUAL ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIPS. JULY 1919. RELAY RACE. SECOND TEAM. R.A.M.C. MAJOR A. ABRAHAMS', 32.5mm., good very fine and a rare association item
Sir Adolphe Abrahams, OBE, FRCP, was the eldest of the three famous sporting brothers. He studied at Cambridge, where he was sculling champion (1904–05). He served in the RAMC from 1915 to 1920, with the rank of Major, and was in charge of a Medical Division and Consultant Physician, Aldershot Command (mentioned in despatches). He was medical officer in charge of the British Olympic teams from 1912 until 1948, president of the British Association of Sports and Medicine, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. The second brother Sir Solly Abrahams competed in the 1906 and 1912 Olympic Games. In 1947 he was elected president of Britain's oldest athletic club, the London Athletic Club. The third brother was Harold Abrahams, in 1924 the first European to win an Olympic sprint gold medal. He had also participated in the 1920 Olympic Games. In 1924 he established a British long jump record of 24 feet, 2½ inches, a record that stood for the next 32 years. Harold Abrahams was immortalised in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.
(Estimate: 80-120 GBP)