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Before dozing off for a final nap a few hours before the big race one day last week, British Miler Derek Ibbotson had a happy premonition. "It's going to be interesting tonight," he predicted. "I think the time will be 3 :50-something...
...fast in the final lap at the Los Angeles Coliseum and almost gave the crowd the four-minute mile it had come to see. He finished in 4:01, ahead of Britain's Brian Hewson (4:01.4), Hungarian Expatriate Laszlo Tabori (4:01.6) and Britain's Derek Ibbotson (4:02). All four had already broken four minutes elsewhere; Ibbotson had come to town boldly predicting he would win in 3:56. "Our appearance," said the unabashed fourth-place Briton, "ought to be a challenge to the young fellows of the States." It was. Muscular Olympian Tom Courtney...
...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...