Almost The 5 Min Mile

Series

Series Name
Pathe News

Issue

Issue No.
54/41
Date Released
31 May 1954
Date covered
26 May 1954
Length of issue (in feet)
698
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Almost The 5 Min Mile
  2. 2US Carrier Tragedy
  3. 3Sir Winston Speaks
  4. 4Hungarian Rhapsody

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 4
Summary
21 year old Diane Leather misses the mile-in-5-min-record by two-tenths of second
Keywords
Sport; Women; Athletics
Locations
Birmingham; Alexander Sports Ground
Credits:
Camera
Cedric Baynes
Camera
John Corbett
Camera
Norman William Roper
Length of story (in feet)
133
Story extras:
Film clip
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Notes
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