@gbhnews The last (known) surviving runner from Bannister’s record race was also the only American: George Dole of Bath, Maine (via Yale). Dole had an illustrious career as a theologian in the Swedenborgian church and lived in Newton for years before retiring to Bath in the late ‘90s and taking over his father’s pulpit there. He died in 2021, still a regular runner and happy to talk about his little bit of history: https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a20807933/the-unknown-american-in-the-first-sub-4-00-mile/