Alastair McCorquodale

Alastair McCorquodale ( born December 5, 1925 in Hillhead, Glasgow, † February 27, 2009 in Grantham ) was a British sprinter.

Born into a Scottish family of publishers Alastair McCorquodale went to a boarding school in Harrow. In 1947 he began his brief career as a track and field athlete with victory over 100 yards in the Military Championships, at the National Championships he finished fifth. In 1948 he became a British runners over 100 yards and master over 220 yards. At the Olympic Games in London, he was in the 100 -meter run behind the Americans Harrison Dillard and Barney Ewell and the Panamanians Lloyd LaBeach Fourth ( with the unofficial time of 10.7 seconds). About 200 meters McCorquodale missed the final scarce. In the season finale, the Americans won in 40.6 seconds, behind the British received in 41.3 seconds the silver medal. After the Olympics, McCorquodale ended his athletic career.

From 1948 to 1951 McCorquodale worked in five first-class cricket matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC ), the Free Foresters and the Middlesex County Cricket Club as a left-handed batsman and a right-handed fast bowler with. In the season 1951-52 he participated in the MCC tour to Canada. McCorquodale later took over the publishing of his family and was verlegerisch responsible for the yearbook Whitaker 's Almanack.

Alastair McCorquodale was 1.83 m tall and weighed 78 kg in his playing days.