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Roger Bannister - Signed Programme

25 July 2012, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Roger Bannister - Signed Programme

An O.U.A.C Athletics Programme signed by Roger Bannister on upper cover, for the event held at Iffley Road Athletic Ground on May the 6th 1954, race results neatly entered in ink within

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Event 9 - the One Mile - having a recorded time of 3 minuntes 59.4 seconds, a world record at the time. Roger Bannister was the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes.

Provenance: the vendor is the nephew of the former British Athletic team manager Leslie Truelove. Mr. Truelove was in charge of the A.A.A. team when Roger Bannister achieved his world record at Oxford in 1954, and it was into his arms that Bannister stumbled after his heroic effort.

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