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David Coleman OBE is a former British sports commentator & TV presenter. In 2000 he was awarded the Olympic Order, the highest honour of the Olympic movement. Coleman was originally a keen amateur runner. In 1949 he won the Manchester Mile, the only non-international runner to do so. However, injury caused him to give up competitive running. He worked as a reporter for the Stockport Express & during military service worked for the British Army Newspaper Unit. He joined Kemsley Newspapers after demobilisation & at 22 became editor of the County Press in Cheshire. In 1954 Coleman moved to Birmingham & joined the BBC as a news assistant. His first television appearance was on Sportsview, coincidentally on the day that Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile. In November 1955 he was appointed Sports Editor for the BBCs Midlands Region. In October 1958 the BBCs Head of Sport Peter Dimmock recruited Coleman to be the presenter of the new Saturday afternoon sports programme Grandstand. He continued as the regular presenter until 1968.

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