Herb Elliott
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Herbert James Elliott is a former Australian athlete and arguably the world's greatest middle-distance runner of his era. In August 1958 he set the world record in the mile run, clocking 3:54.5, 2.7 s
Elliott at the 1960 Olympics
Elliott with family in Europe c. 1960
Michel Jazy
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Michel Jazy was a French middle-distance runner and long-distance runner. He won the 1500 metres silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics, as well as two golds and one silver at the European Champions
Herb Elliott
…at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Elliott won the 1500 m gold medal in world record time (3:35.6), finishing 2.6 seconds ahead of second placed Michel Jazy of France. Elliott credited his visionary and iconoclastic coach, Percy Cerutty, with inspiration to train harder and more naturally than anyone of his…
Jazy (left) in 1963
Jazy shows his book Mes victoires, mes défaites, ma vie to wife Irène in 1967