John Tarrant
Long-distance runner
- Born
- 1932
- Died
- 1975, Hereford
- Sport
- athletics
- Discipline
- marathon
- Occupation
- marathon runner, boxer
John Tarrant (4 February 1932 – 18 January 1975) was an English long-distance runner, nicknamed "The Ghost Runner" .He was given the nickname for his habit of "gatecrashing" races from which he was barred due to his "non-amateur" status, acquired during a brief career as a teenage prize-fighter.
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Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.