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On your marks get set

Gold, silver and bronze international cross-country medals put Jim Brown in a class of his own.

Jim Brown is a Lanarkshire PE teacher, a still-wiry, unassuming figure who hides a unique athletics record. He is the only Scot, and one of only four British athletes to have a complete set of medals from 105 years of international cross country.