: Kurt Bray
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Sent: Friday, August 4, 2000 6:11 am
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Subject: Re: t-and-f: Bannister takes El Guerrouj into his historic
'home'
El Guerrouj became the 13th athlete to hold the record since Bannister
with
the 3-43.13
.Eamonn Condon wrote:
But there was more to learn. El Guerrouj stopped as he walked past the
gold-embossed honours board listing world records set by Oxford athletes
dating back to 1876 and including the names of Jack Lovelock and John
Landy,
two other former miling greats to have run in the
El Guerrouj became the 13th athlete to hold the record since Bannister with
the 3-43.13 he clocked in Rome last year and talked then of making the
pilgrimage to Iffley Road.
Trivia quiz: Who was the second athlete to run a mile in under 4 minutes on
the Iffley track?
Kurt Bray
The Electronic Telegraph
Friday 4 August 2000
Tom Knight
HICHAM El GUERROUJ, the world's fastest miler, realised a childhood dream
yesterday by meeting Sir Roger Bannister at Oxford's Iffley Road track and
even the weather added to the sense of occasion enjoyed by these two giants
of the
