Having won the AAA 440 yards title in 1892 and 1893 and the 880 yards title in 1893, 1894 and 1895, London Athletic Club’s Edgar Bredin turned professional and at Stamford Bridge in 1897 he beat the American professional 800 metres world record holder Charles Henry Kilpatrick for the world title. Three years later at the 1900 Paris Olympics Bredin won the 100, 400 and 1500 metres professional gold medals, and all on one day. At the time of the Games he was holder of the world 400 metres record of 48.5 seconds, which he set at London in June 1895. The son of Lieutenant-Colonel Edgar Grantham Bredin, Royal Artillery, Edgar junior was just five when his father died. He attended Wellington College, Berkshire, and later became a sports author and in 1902 published the book Running and Training. In 1907 he went to live in the United States where he died in 1934.
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