Let's Remember Together
For the visits when you run out of things to say.
Quick Quiz
Game 80
Faster than anyone before him
A record in Oxford
A video by BBC Archive
The game's question
Follow the race sentence by sentence, as if you were in the crowd that day.
6 May 1954, at Iffley Road in Oxford. Two runners set the pace for him, and the roar of the crowd drowned out the announcer before he could finish ‘The time was three…’. For the first time, a man had run a mile in under four minutes: 3 minutes 59.4 seconds. Who was he?
- Chris Chataway
- Roger Bannister
- David Hemery
Need a hint?
His surname sounds just like the rail you hold going up the stairs. Who in the family loved to run, or to watch athletics?
See the answer
Answer: Roger Bannister – 3 minutes 59.4 seconds, on 6 May 1954.
Why this game : Talking about a record the whole country discussed the next morning leads easily to sports days and races of your own.
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