A Week You’ll Remember a Lifetime!

Terry Fisher

Javelin Thrower

With Northern Rhodesia

team mascot Kafupe

Trinidad sprinter

Mike Agostini holding

his 100 Yards gold medal

and pair of

Adidas track spikes

Bill Parnell’s track spikes, at

left.

Bill Parnell, far right, leading 1950 British Empire Games mile, on his way to winning gold and setting

the BEG record.

Opening Ceremonies

Lord Alexander

Prince Philip

Stan Smith, testing out the

new cycling track, at left.

Stan Smith with Mayor Fred Hume,

at right.

Ticket Stubs Victory Medal: Front and Back

BEG Society General Manager Blair Clerk (left) and BEG Society General Chairman Stan Smith (right)

Empire Stadium

Emmanuel IfeajunaNigeria

Gold MedalistMen’s High Jump

Canada’s Doug Hepburn, gold medalist in weightlifting, heavyweight division

North Vancouver’s Sam

Gardiner and Dick Williams,

who represented Canada in pairs lawn bowling, winning silver.

Gardiner and Williams in action during BECG lawn bowling competition.

UBC-VRC Rowing Eights Crew, Gold medalists in men’s eights rowing

John Landy arriving in Vancouver

Roger Bannister at right

The eight starters in the Miracle Mile (left to right): Bill Baillie, New Zealand; David Law, England; Ian Boyd, England; Roger Bannister, England; Victor Milligan, Northern Ireland; Murray Halberg, New Zealand; Rich Ferguson, Canada; John Landy, Australia.

English marathoner Jim Petersbreaking the marathon world

record for the fourth time in the spring of 1954.

Bannister-LandyMiracle Mile

statue at Empire Fields

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