Adrian Metcalfe
Olympic athlete
1942 –
Who is Adrian Metcalfe?
Adrian Metcalfe OBE is a former British athlete, who mainly competed in the 400 meters.
He competed for Great Britain in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo in the 4 x 400m relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Tim Graham, John Cooper and Robbie Brightwell.
Metcalfe attended the Brunts School. He was also a broadcaster, having worked variously as athletics commentator for British commercial channel ITV in the 1970s and 1980s, was head of sport at Channel 4 at its launch in 1983, and he later headed up pan-European sports channel Eurosport.
He has worked as an adviser and producer for both the International Olympic Committee and International Association of Athletics Federations, serving on their respective press and broadcast commissions.
In 1998, Metcalfe took up a directorship of worldsport.com, working with Allan Callan, on the web-based rights project for the General Assembly of International Sports Federations, but the venture was a victim of the dot.com crash and closed in 2000. Metcalfe lost all of his financial investment in the company.
Metcalfe also advised on London's bids to stage the track and field world championships and 2012 Olympics.
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- Born
- Mar 2, 1942
United Kingdom - Also known as
- Adrian Peter Metcalfe
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- The Brunts Academy
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on July 23, 2013
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