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Crawford Fairbrother

Father was a Scottish Championship medalist in the twenties and thirties (1)

Scottish Schools victory in 1955 (1.78 metres) (1)

13 successive national titles from 1957 to 1969 (1)

Jumped for Victoria Park (1)

Profesional life as a meteorologist (1)

highly efficient straddle jumper (1)

Set 3 UK and 5 Scottish records (the best being 2.07) in Glasgow 1964 (it remained until 1975) (1)

In 53 appearences for Britain, he was placed in the first three a total of 35 times and was 10 in the 1958 European championships in Stockholm. (1)

In his last of four commonwealth games appearances in Edinburgh in 1970 he took the oath on behalf of the competitors at the opening ceremony. His best games place was fourth (1.98m) at Kingston in 1966 (1)

He was team captain at Kingston along with Ming Campbell as vice captain (2)(3)

(1) Glasgow Herald 24 November 1986 http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19861122&id=MwI-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=VEkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2434,6152884

(2) Jim in Jamaica http://www.ardbruach.org.uk/Jim%20Alder%20in%20Jamaica.htm

(3) http://www.runnerslife.co.uk/guest-runners/Jim-Alder-MBE

(4) Fairbrothers Record of Achievement) http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kpxAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=E6UMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5694,264694&dq=crawford+fairbrother&hl=en

(5) Nine Scots in British Team http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5ZFAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AKUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2706,5026377&dq=crawford+fairbrother&hl=en

(6) Biggest and Best http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XZJAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BqUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2746,3640609&dq=crawford+fairbrother+edinburgh&hl=en

(7) Early club history http://www.vp-glasgow.co.uk/history.htm

(8) MBE http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19700613&id=WpJAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BqUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6192,2944164