Founder’s son gets top Marathon job

Hugh Brasher was today named as the race director of the London Marathon from 2013.

Brasher's father, Chris, the 1956 Olympic steeplechase champion who was a pace maker when Roger Bannister became the first man to break the four-minute barrier for the mile in 1954, co-founded the event.

There will be a gradual handover from outgoing race director Dave Bedford, who described Brasher as "head and shoulders above the other applicants".