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1948 Olympic Games

1950 European Championships

1952 Olympic Games

1954 Empire Games

1954 European Championships

1956 Olympic Games

1958 Empire Games

1958 European Championships

1960 Olympic Games

1962 Commonwealth Games

1962 European Championships

1964 Olympic Games

1966 Empire & Commonwealth Games

1966 European Championships

1969 European Championships

1970 Commonwealth Games

1971 European Championships

Gunder Hagg Profile

Gunder Hagg's Training

Sydney Wooderson: New Profile

Chepkwony, Anentia and Maiyoro: The First Kenyan Runners

Horace Ashenfelter Profile

Iharos,Rozsavolgyi and Tabori: The Hungarian Trio

John Landy Profile

Pyotor Bolotnikov

Roger Bannister

Ronnie Delany Profile

Wes Santee Profile

Bruce Tulloh Profile

Gaston Roelants

George Young Profile

Gerry Lindgren Profile

Jean Wadoux Profile

Kerry O'Brien Profile

Martin Hyman Profile

Maurice Herriott

Michel Jazy Profile

Ron Hill: Part One

Ron Hill: Part Two

The Cold War Track Series

Tom Farrell Profile

Volodalen Training Camp in the 1960s

Anders Garderud Profile

David Moorcroft: Profile

Dick Quax Profile

Eamonn Coghlan Profile

Emiel Puttemans

Lasse Viren Profile

Marty Liquori Profile

Bill Bonthron Profile

Glenn Cunningham

Jules Ladoumegue

Otto Peltzer Profile

Paris Parade of over 300,000 Celebrates a Runner

Arne Andersson v Gunder Hagg (1,500, 1944)

Arne Andersson v Gunder Hagg (Mile, 1944)

Gaston Reiff v Emil Zatopek (1948)

Bannister v Landy (1954)

Bannister's 3:59.4 (1954)

Chataway v Kuts (1954)

Chataway v Mimoun v Schade v Zatopek (5,000, 1952)

Elliott v Lincoln v Delany (1958)

Pirie v Kuts (10,000, 1956)

Bolotnikov v Tulloh v Zimny (5,000, 1962)

Elliott v Jazy v Roszavolgyi (1,500, 1960)

Halberg v Grodotzki v Zimny (5,000, 1960)

Jazy v Norpoth v Schul v Dellinger (5,000, 1964)

Keino v. Tummler v Ryun v Norpoth v Whetton (1968)

Kemper v Boulter v Tummler v Carter v Matuschewski: Great Races #25

Mills v Clarke v Gammoudi (1964)

Snell v Tulloh v Thomas

Clarke v Keino v Stewart v McCafferty v Rushmer

Great Races #23: The 1975 Miracle Mile

Hill v Johnston v Alder v Roelants v Turner (1970)

Glenn Cunningham v Luigi Beccali v Jack Lovelock (1936)

Jean Bouin v Hannes Kolehmainen

Peltzer v Lowe: Great Races #26

Walter George v. William Cummings (1886)

1948 Olympic Games

Arne Andersson v Gunder Hagg (1,500, 1944)

Arne Andersson v Gunder Hagg (Mile, 1944)

Gaston Reiff v Emil Zatopek (1948)

Gunder Hagg Profile

Gunder Hagg's Training

Sydney Wooderson: New Profile

1960 Olympic Games

1962 Commonwealth Games

1962 European Championships

1964 Olympic Games

1966 Empire & Commonwealth Games

1966 European Championships

1969 European Championships

Bolotnikov v Tulloh v Zimny (5,000, 1962)

Bruce Tulloh Profile

Elliott v Jazy v Roszavolgyi (1,500, 1960)

Gaston Roelants

George Young Profile

Gerry Lindgren Profile

Halberg v Grodotzki v Zimny (5,000, 1960)

Jazy v Norpoth v Schul v Dellinger (5,000, 1964)

Jean Wadoux Profile

Keino v. Tummler v Ryun v Norpoth v Whetton (1968)

Kemper v Boulter v Tummler v Carter v Matuschewski: Great Races #25

Kerry O'Brien Profile

Martin Hyman Profile

Maurice Herriott

Michel Jazy Profile

Mills v Clarke v Gammoudi (1964)

Ron Hill: Part One

Ron Hill: Part Two

Snell v Tulloh v Thomas

The Cold War Track Series

Tom Farrell Profile

Volodalen Training Camp in the 1960s

1970 Commonwealth Games

1971 European Championships

Anders Garderud Profile

Clarke v Keino v Stewart v McCafferty v Rushmer

David Moorcroft: Profile

Dick Quax Profile

Eamonn Coghlan Profile

Emiel Puttemans

Great Races #23: The 1975 Miracle Mile

Hill v Johnston v Alder v Roelants v Turner (1970)

Lasse Viren Profile

Marty Liquori Profile

Bill Bonthron Profile

Glenn Cunningham

Glenn Cunningham v Luigi Beccali v Jack Lovelock (1936)

Jean Bouin v Hannes Kolehmainen

Jules Ladoumegue

Otto Peltzer Profile

Paris Parade of over 300,000 Celebrates a Runner

Peltzer v Lowe: Great Races #26

Walter George v. William Cummings (1886)

"A bit of a novelty in those days." Who was the first Afro-American to break four minutes for the mile?

A century Ago in War-time: How Athletics Survived and a Swedish Runner Prospered

A Re-evaluation of the Career of Sin Kim Dan

A Record-breaking Track Career Begins Under the Eyes of the Nazi Invaders

A Vision that Paved the Way to Vaporfly

AGK Brown's Selfless North American ADVENTURE

Alan Turing: The Marathon Ambition of a Computer Genius

Before Lovelock and Snell, the First Great New Zealand Miler

Bob Pape, Seafaring Distance-Runner

Buddy Edelen, The Amiable American

Charles Kilpatrick: The Fastest Half-Mile Yet, but....

Dan Waern: King of the Kilometre

Foster' Forebears. The Origins and Progress of Two-Miles Records

George Campbell: Australia's Vegetarian Marvel

Going Great Guns: the Afro-American Pace-setter at the Olympic Games of 1924

How George Bonhag Won his Odd Gold Medal

How Joe Binks Foresaw the Sub-four-minute Mile

In Nurmi's Wake: Lost Track Medalists of the Chariots-of-Fire Games

In Search of Elusive Shadows in the Far Distant Lands of Wenceslas

Jamaica's 43-year-old 800m Record

James Kibblewhite: Great All-Rounder of the Victorian Age

John Daly: The First Noted Irish Distance Man of the 20th Century

Jules Ladomègue: Julot, the French Idol

Lon Spurrier: Profile

Lule: The First African Half-Miler of Note

More than 90 Years of the Wanamaker Mile

Noel Bretell: A Remarkable Poet-Athlete

Paul Martin: The Good Companion

Paula Radcliffe: What Might She Have Done for 10,000?

Ralph and Rufe: America's Largely Forgotten Milers of the 1930s

Reggie Pearman: Double Relay World-record-breaker

Squire Yarrow: Profile

Steeplechasing in the 1930s: The American Perspective, and a Technical Development 30 Years Ahead of the Times

Sydney Wooderson: Not So Much a Reverence as a Re-evaluation

The 1936 Olympic marathon gold and the mysterious North Korean athletics legacy

The Career of Charles Hornbostel, Half-miler of the 1930s

The Curious Anomalies of the 1896 Athens Games

The Defeated Marathon Hero's Own Memories

The first Pan-American Games of 1937 Was the Olympic 800 metres champion robbed of a World record ?

The Life of Valerie Winn (née Ball)

The Native Canadian Distance Runners at the 1912 Olympic Games

The Neglected Legacy of El Mabrouk

The Shapwick Express Reaches Journey's End Late--111 Years Late, To Be Precise

The Tragedy of an Old Friend from Poland

The Women's Olympic 800 Metres of 1960

Tomorrow's Paavo Nurmi. Today's Lone Leader. Yesterday's Four-minute Hopes

Walter Dohm: "Taking Advantage of Every Fine Point of the Game"

Where Foosteps led to Cheptegei. In Search of Uganda's First Distance-runners of Note

Early Attempts at the Four-Minute Mile

Early marathon running - the British and Irish influence

Why Is the Marathon 26 Miles, 385 Yards Long?

Articles / 1950s

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