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... Jesse Owens, Harold Davis, Barney Ewell (aU USA) and Lloyd Beach (Panama). Britain led Yugoslavia by 54 points to 32. . Roger Bannister, Britain's mile champion, was unexpectedly beaten into second place in the 1.500 metres by the young Yugoslav runner ...
... summer, Dr. Roger Bannister, the world's first four-minute miler, said here yesterday. This seems a pity because we do expect the Olympic Games to be a test of running ability rather than an ability to withstand extreme heat, he said. Dr. Bannister was speaking ...
... 6 seconds. only .6 seconds outside Landy s official world record. lbbotson is the joint holder of British record with Roger Bannister —Star. ...
... —Dr, Roger Bannister, the nrst man to run a mile in less than four minutes. has been awarded Heim's Trophy tor Europe's foremost. athlete in 1954. The t:ophy is awarded by Helm's Athletic Foundation of America and will be presented to Dr. Bannister at Savoy ...
... Landy. of Australia . in Finland on June 21 114. rbbotson thus becomes the iinth sub tour-minute miler s Bet-1 lam's Roger Bannister cracked the harrier on May 6. 1954 . at Oxford with the same time as Ibbotson's time. —Reuter. ...
... British triumph with Bill Nankeville winning by eight yards in four minutes eleven seconds. The British Mile champion Roger Bannister, did not run. France's only success yesterday was in the Three-Miles, which was won by Alain Mimoun, who beat the British ...
... all-time runners and have selected Finland's i'aavo Nurmi, Czechoslovakia's Emil Zatopek, Russia's Vladimir Kuts, Britain's Roger Bannister, America's Jesse Owens, New Zealand's Peter snell, Sweden's Gundar Haegg —and Elliott—as subjects. _ The have already ...
... d roof of ashes'os cement. Among visitors to Perth is likely to be Dr. Roger Bannister, the British runner wh o became the first man to break four minutes for the mile. Bannister, who is now in the United States working on the problem of breathing, lung ...
... a .4.1- l es of training exercises ranging from chin-ups to squat: itithrs. Two years later. in 1954, the ciiitlent. Roger Bannister, befiat)* the first to break the four-minute harrier to the astoni-lithent (if almost everyone ex!'t Professor Cureton ...
... Discovered? LONDON, May 10, Oxford University whch produced such great m lers as Jack Lovelock. of Pre-war fame, and Roger Bannister and Chris Chataway of more recent fame think they have found another to follow in their footsteps. He is 21-year-old Stephens ...
... the University does produce an outstanding track and field athletics team whose members bays included in recent years Roger Bannister, the first iourAsinute miler; G. M. Elliott, British Empire pole vault champion; John Parlett, European Games 800 mertes ...
... champion, was second. The significance of Bannister's performance lies not so much in his victory as in the almost incredible race in the final lap. His 56.7 sec. is the fastest recorded final quarter for a mile. Bannister's time lowered G. Cunningham's 17-year-aid ...