Steve Cram MBE, First Man To Break 3m30sec In 1500m, Marks 25th Anniversary

16 Jul

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The Olympic legend relives the life changing moment when he beat Said Aouita in Nice And Went on to break a further two world records in 19-Days

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LONDON, U.K: Today Steve Cram MBE, Atos Origin UK ambassador for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, marks the 25th anniversary of his life changing moment when he beat Saïd Aouita in Nice, becoming the first man ever to run 1500 metres in less than 3:30:00, on 16th July 1985.

Cram’s time of 3:29.67 is still a GB best, and he went on to break a further two world records in 19 days; the mile and 2000m, both of which remain European records.

Cram was appointed as the Atos Origin UK ambassador to demonstrate the company’s critical role in providing the IT infrastructure systems to relay results, events and athlete information to spectators and media around the world as the Olympic Games happen, records are broken and medals are won.

Atos Origin has held the world’s largest sports related IT contract as the Worldwide IT Partner for the Olympic Games since 2002. It will support London 2012 in delivering the official results to the world’s media in less than a second via an integrated securely managed IT infrastructure.

For further information visit the Atos Olympic site here

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