- Bib ID:
- 674984
- Format:
- Picture
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1954
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.3 x 15.2 cm.
- Summary:
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"Bannister wins the mile. Britain's Roger Bannister breasts the tape to win the mile at the Empire Games, Vancouver, August 7, in 3 min 58.8 sec with Australia's John Landy about three yards behind to finish second in 3 min 59.6 sec. Original of radiophoto DI5217 8854SM. Associated Press photo from London. Four-minute miler. Roger Bannister made certain of his own immortality when, at Oxford on May 6, 1954, he ran the mile in less than four minutes. Just to prove that it wasn't a fluke he did it again at Vancouver three months later ... and here he is beating Australia's John Landy on that occasion."--Label attached to verso.
- Notes:
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- Condition: Good, some minor losses around edges.
- "Copyright Associated Press photo supplied by The Associated Press Ltd., 83-86 Farringdon Street, London, E.C.4 ..."--Photographer's stamp on verso.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136799149
- Subject:
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- Occupation:
- Runners (Sports)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Associated Press (London, England)
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Creation date:
- 1954
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