Word: chataway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Chris Chataway, 27, English runner (now a BBC-TV commentator) who, with Chris Brasher, paced Miler Roger Bannister on the way to the first four-minute mile (1954), in the same year beat the Soviet Union's great Vladimir Kuc to set a world record for three miles (he shocked the Red athletes at a post-meet dinner by lighting up a big black cigar); and Anna Lett, 27, pretty blonde TV producer; in London. Ushers: Dr. Roger Bannister and Chris Brasher...
...record-matching half-mile run by Britain's Brian Hewson was scant consolation for the crowd at London's White City Stadium, as Hungary's Laszlo Tabori whipped Three-Mile Champion Chris Chataway in a slow mile (4:05) and three-mile race (13:44.6), to help the Hungarians win a dual meet...
...Pace-Setter Chris Chataway, the man who used to make a business of helping other runners hang up records, hung up a world-beater for himself. At London's White City stadium, Chataway swapped pacing chores every quarter mile with his countryman Derek Ibbotson, took off on his own in the last half mile of a three-mile race and broke the tape in 13:23.2-3.2 seconds faster than the record held by Russia's Vladimir...
...mile. On the rain-softened track at London's White City Stadium, Tabori turned on the steam in the last 300 yards and finished in 3:59. Just .8 second behind, fast enough to get under the four-minute barrier, pounded Britain's Three-Mile Champion Chris Chataway in a virtual dead heat with Half-Mile Champion Brian Hewson...
Moscow won an easy team victory (159-89), but for London, the 5,000-meter race was the meet. Only Chris Chataway had some sober second thoughts. Looking ahead to the next Olympics, he shook his head and mumbled: "I'd still back Zatopek to beat us both...