Quote Originally Posted by DrPatrickBarry View Post
How would his average speed have compared to the 1500 metre world record at that time?

Roger Bannister 1,609.344 metres 1954 3:59.4.

I suppose if anybody could be bothered to work it out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1500_m...rd_progression

3:43.0 Werner Lueg (FRG) 1952-06-29 Berlin, Germany

if my reading of it is correct these two are 1500 times taken from a mile event.
3:42.8+ Wes Santee (USA) 1954-06-04 Compton, United States
3:41.8+ John Landy (AUS) 1954-06-21 Turku, Finland
3:43.13 but that extra 109 metres do take it out of you ;-)