Richard David Nerurkar Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire is a former track and field athlete from Great Britain, competing in the long-distance running events.
Education
Born in Wolverhampton, England, he moved to Bradford, where he attended Bradford Grammar School. On the track, he finished fifth in the 10,000 metres in the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, and 17th in the 10,000m final of the 1992 Olympics.
Career
He holds the British record for 10 miles of 46:02, set in October 1993. That year he moved up in distance to the marathon. His other marathons included a fifth place in the 1996 Olympics and a personal best time of 2:08:36 in the 1997 London Marathon where he also finished in fifth place.
His time was the third fastest of all time by a British athlete.
He is general manager of the Great Ethiopian Run event hosted yearly in Addis Ababa, an event he started in 2001 with Ethiopian long-distance runner Haile Gebreselassie and Peter Middlebrook. Nerurkar is author of the book Marathon Running: From Beginning to Elite.() He was previously a language teacher at Marlborough College, between 1989 and 1991.
He was awarded the Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2002.