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... this year as Man of the Match. The 1980 championships were also honoured by the presence of such former winners as Sir Roger Bannister, Gordon Pirie, Peter Radford, Maurice Herriott, Alan Pascoe, Lynn Davies and Harold Whitlock who looked sprightly enough ...
... will be interested in the family activity holidays now being planned by the Sports Council, under the chairmanship of Dr Roger Bannister. At Dartington Hall School, Totnes, South Devon, one-week holidays are being organised in which parents and children will ...
... Chataway's new record of 4 m ins. 8.4 secs. has been bettered, in British athletics, only by Sidney \Vooderson himself and Roger Bannister, both in ummer conditions. And t his in :\larch, with a bitter breeze freezing us under our rugs. Now Alan Dick takes ...
... even more, beat the previous European games record. To take but one example. In the 1,500 metres the winning time of Roger Bannister in 1954, when he got our solitary gold medal at the sth European championships, was beaten by no fewer than ten people ...
... from which a rubber mould can be taken. The firm of Thomas and Wilson of Fulham employed a team of eight modellers under Roger Bannister. The project was managed on site by Hugh Barrel!, a long-standing partner of Erith & T erry, and the main contractor was ...
... other British athletes were also under the once formidable barrier of 4min . It is enough, incidentally, to make Dr. Roger Bannister pale if one points out t hat the Olympic qualifying standard t his year IS 3min. It is enough, 59·6sec. It is 40 yea rs ...
... money, those who fear that the axe is swinging their way are tempted t o cry out before the blow falls. Last week Dr Roger Bannister, Chairman of the Sports Council, gave a warning against what he saw as the dangers of a cutback in public expendi- His ...
... Commons to concentrate on improvements on other points with highly constructive results. THE ETERNAL RECORD-BREAKER W HEN Roger Bannister first got inside four minutes for a mile it seemed pretty certain that someone else would equal if not surpass his feat ...
... did r.oint out to me later that if ever he did get the 'ultimate record he would feel like retiring: not unlike Sir Roger Bannister and the fourminute mile. British athletes, for whom these championships are really arranged, had a considerable impact ...
... at Crystal Palace last week and then when making a rare trip to Oxford's Iffiey Road ground. That Oxford track, where Roger Bannister became the first to run a mile in under 4 minutes just 21 years ago, is now virtually a backwater of the sport, and it ...
... accommodate all those who wanted to hear various persons eminent in sport, and in particular that illustrious miler, Mr. Roger Bannister, of St. Mary's H ospital. H e said that certain experiments at Oxford had shown that if a s uitable way of breathing oxygen ...
... Illustrated's first Sportsman of the Year. 1954 Roger Bannister becomes first man to run a mile in experts had long con- unbreakable. His accomplishments, Sports Illustrated's 1956 (Above) Roger Bannister runs the first fourminute rnile. (Right) Stirling ...