Editor’s note. 2025 is the 71-year-old women who lasted five minutes for a mile. This is a great deal of work, because all the great women who women, including faith, Kipegon should tell the story of the logo Diane Leather. Here is his story.
Peter J. Thompson wrote this part in 2014 and it’s so appropriate today.
Why do you ask?
Well, yesterday, Nike has spent about $ 30 million (reported to a celebration of miles and women to reach the first women in the world.
A brilliant rough run, which the world focused on women’s run and how interesting it might be. Nike gave his answer that he stimulated this and without a 4-minute mile, a strong success (I stand by my comment that it should have been nominated for preliminary classic).
But faith in Kipegon, Jam Hull, St. Pierre, Mariam Sleeir, all stands at the shoulder of women below, Diane Leather.
Please read and share this one. It is important to know that less than a year of Sir Roger Bannister has been for a 5-minute mile for women for a prohibited event.
At one time, Herb Eliot’s coach was once in 1960, 1500 meters of the Olympic gold, and I quote. “Women who can push for 5 minutes 5 minutes for a mistake or for 3 hours for a marathon, they are not women.”
That’s what Diane leather was about 71 plus years ago.
DIANE leather, in a small race, has first to first break women who will ever break for five minutes, more than seventy-one years ago.
Consider it, consider the wonderful celebration of the Women’s Mileage Near Nike and Athletes Last Autumn …
Diane leather was the first woman to break five minutes for miles. He did it on May 29, 1954. Diane Leather can be the most important mileage you have never heard of. Well, read, Runblogrrrrrrrrrra! Here is his story and statistics, Peter John L. Thompson.
Marking 60t. Diane Leather Anniversary Breaks 5-Minute Mile Barrier
By Peter John L Thompson
29t. May 2014
Most of you read this blog, aware of 60t. The anniversary of the four-minute barrier for a mile at the beginning of this month. May 6t.In 1954, Roger Bannist ran miles 3. 59.4, at the time previously thought out of physiological and mentally human framework.
Later, in May 1954, the world’s mile record was again attacked in England. But this was not a road to eagle, Oxford. On May 29, Per Fairy Barrem Stadard was Birmingham and Midland Championshipt.A number of competitions gathered on a gray-headed gray track, at the beginning of a mile race, knowing that one of them tried to break the world record that day. They were also aware that this athlete won the championships 45 minutes ago, confirming the British post.
The report on the starting line, the start-up rifle sounded around the stadium, as a whip crack, reminded the gathered, the athletes and the audience for their meeting. When runners run, only a few hundred yards lasted a high-ranking, elegant runner to the front of the field and assumed the constantly growing leader.
Not the company of opponents or the Pakhmags for this athlete. Diane leather was just miles, in terms of its development and potential, and competed with the wisdom of that potential. When the laps pass, his pace took him away from the field so that the crowd was more and more aware that the 5-minute barrier was available for the mile. At the end of the mile, Diane ended 160 yards, and the ribbon broke 4. During 59.6, becoming the first female runner to complete a 5-minute miles. This barrier was broken only 23 days later, when the Roger Banner broke the 4-minute Oxford ban.
Diane Leather is probably the best British athlete you can never hear about. And if you have heard of him, you may not be fully aware of how big his talent and achievement is like a number of distances. His relatively brief career has been equal to the world’s best in 440 yards and sets the best performances in the world for 1500m (twice and the first woman to run until 4:30.0). At that time, these performances were all classified as the best performances in the world, not world records, as the individual distances of the only women recognized by IAF were 800 m. Add these achievements, the fact that he also won the British Cross Country Championship in 1953-1956.
The Diane leather occupied at the age of 19 at the age of 19, after leaving the school, watching the Helsinki Olympics. In the fall of 1952, he joined Birchfield Harriers, where he was headed by Doret Nelson-Neil and was immediately impressed by a multilateral running with the club, the junior junior junior of the “England” national intersection and then. Then in 1953-1955, Diane had twice improved women’s world five times and over a total of 5 seconds, taking it 5. 08.0 to 4. 45.0, at the time left for 7 years.
He finally got the opportunity to run in the 1960s at the Olympic Games in Rome, as Mrs. Diana Charles, but she was eliminated in the first stage, the fifth. 14.24. The years of his glory were gone, and records were different, he would have “officially” than most of all others in the history of British Athletics. In the more illuminated era, his name was distinguished among the world’s record holders, probably as a gold medalist of the Olympic.
The current author views the scene. “If a man did such things would be his name. ” But Diane Charles, his idea, canceled this idea. In response to the 2004 BBC interview question.Have you ever felt that you should have been paying for you so much attention because he (Roger Bannister) had? ” He stressed. It was different. I don’t know that you can compare it except that it is an obstacle for 5 minutes. Many men chased a 4-minute barrier. I don’t think it was the same for women, and they had taverns, or people who were equally with them. “
Yes it was different for Diane’s leather Charles. He made himself aims to his peers and came from the company and reached them. Today, a women’s record for a mile stands 19. 12.56 in 1996 by Svetlana MAtskova in Russia. Among women who dare today to challenge the 4-minute barrier. It will pass, because Diane leather has already proved that there are fractures.
© Peter John L Thompson 2014:
Originally published by the Canadian Athletics Coach Center on their members’ blog
About Peter John L. Thompson
Peter John L Thompson is a British coach who trains athletes to world record performances. He worked for the International Association of Athletics for a twenty-year term, recently as a senior manager and a world leader. He trains all the objects in Athletics, but in 1978 he focused on long-distance events, where he innovated the training method for the new intervals. He lives and coaches in Ujjin, Oregon. See more www.newinterervaltraining.com
