McSweyn edges Wightman in John Landy Mile

By Len Johnson for World Athletics

For a moment off the final bend in the John Landy Mile at the Maurie Plant Meet in Melbourne, it looked like teen phenom Cameron Myers might pull off a similar victory over 2022 World 1500m champion Jake Wightman and Stewart McSweyn. Having tracked the big two...

Iconic Australian athlete John Landy passes away

"He was not only a wonderful husband, but a wonderful father and he lived a wonderful life."

By Scott Spits, The Sydney Morning Herald

Legendary Australian runner and former Victorian Governor John Landy has died. He was 91.

Responsible for one of the most iconic moments in Australian...

‘Misfit’ Miler was first to break sub-4 minute Mile on U.S. soil

Jim Bailey shocked the world by beating legend John Landy in Los Angeles in 1956

By Dan Fredericks, The Sydney Morning Herald

Australian Jim Bailey was the first runner to break the 4 minute Mile on American soil. He achieved this unexpected, historic feat on May 6, 1956, at the Los Angeles...

Fab Five Mile Races

“I felt I could not have run a more perfect race.”

Steve Landells for the IAAF

The IAAF takes a look back at five unforgettable, historic races over the classic Mile distance.

#1
1954 – Oxford, England

Roger Bannister’s Mile world record may have only lasted a mere 46 days but his place...

Miracle Mile’s starter gun shell donated to Sports Hall

The tiny, rare artifact is engraved with the time & date of the legendary race between Roger Bannister & John Landy

By John Mackie, The Vancouver Sun

The Miracle Mile was the highlight of the British Empire Games in 1954. That Saturday, Aug. 7, an excited 35,000 people jammed Empire Stadium...

Commonwealth Sports Moment #1: Roger Bannister beats John Landy in the “Miracle Mile”

"If I didn’t manage to defeat John Landy there, he would be the world record holder and have the right to be the best Miler in the world."

By Duncan Mackay, Editor, insidethegames.biz

The build-up to the Mile at the 1954 British Empire Games in Vancouver on Saturday, August 7 was more like a...

Charlie Warner took the iconic Miracle Mile photograph

Vancouver Sun photographer has died at age 89: “He wasn’t sure when he took that photograph if he’d gotten it or not.”

By Gordon McIntyre, Vancouver Sun

Charlie Warner wasn’t scheduled to work that Saturday afternoon, but he went to Empire Stadium anyway to shoot what’s come to be known as...

IAAF, CGF consider restoring Mile to Commonwealth Games athletics program

The Mile "is something that we have been talking with the IAAF about recently, particularly with the passing of Roger Bannister."

By Nick Butler, InsideTheGames.biz

A Mile race could be added to the program for future editions of the Commonwealth Games as part of a broader attempt to embrace...

The Curiously Elastic Limits of Endurance

And there’s more to Landy’s sudden breakthrough, after being stuck for so many races, than simple mind over muscle.

By Alex Hutchinson, Outside Magazine

On a frigid Saturday night in the university town of Sherbrooke, Quebec, in February 1996, I was pondering—yet again—one of the great...

The Miracle Mile 1954: A Moment in Time Prints Available

Limited number of Bannister-Landy signed prints so order this Mile collectible today!

It has come to Bring Back the Mile’s attention that a limited number of autographed prints of “The Moment” when John Landy turned the wrong way as Roger Bannister passed him in the home stretch to win “The...