Cast
- Ben Cross as Harold Abrahams, a Jewish student at Cambridge University
- Ian Charleson as Eric Liddell, the son of Scottish missionaries to China
- Nicholas Farrell as Aubrey Montague, a runner and friend of Harold Abrahams
- Nigel Havers as Lord Andrew Lindsay, a Cambridge student runner partially based on David Burghley and Douglas Lowe
- Ian Holm as Sam Mussabini, Britain's greatest running coach
- John Gielgud as Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University
- Lindsay Anderson as Master of Caius College at Cambridge University
- Cheryl Campbell as Jennie Liddell, Eric's devout sister (Janet Lillian "Jenny" Liddell)
- Alice Krige as Sybil Gordon, Abrahams' fiancée (his actual fiancée was Sybil Evers)
- Struan Rodger as Sandy McGrath, Liddell's friend and running coach
- Nigel Davenport as Lord Birkenhead, member of the British Olympic Committee, who counsels the athletes
- Patrick Magee as Lord Cadogan, chairman of the British Olympics Committee, who is unsympathetic to Liddell's religious plight
- David Yelland as the Prince of Wales, who tries to get Liddell to change his mind about running on Sunday
- Peter Egan as the Duke of Sutherland, president of the British Olympic Committee, who is sympathetic to Liddell
- Daniel Gerroll as Henry Stallard, a Cambridge student and runner
- Dennis Christopher as Charley Paddock, American Olympic runner
- Brad Davis as Jackson Scholz, American Olympic runner
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