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Marathon Talk

Episode 108 - Sir Chris Chataway (Part One)

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7994 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2012

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

In 1954 Sir Chris Chataway paced Roger Banister to the first ever sub four minute mile, broke the World 5,000m record, won Commonwealth gold over three miles, and European silver over 5,000m... and became the first ever BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Wednesday the 1st of February 2012. I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams and this is episode

0:06.5

108 of Marathon Talk. I'm going to do. So, On this week's show we bring you the results of Month 1 of Jantastic and move into

0:51.3

Month 2 fabulous.

0:53.0

There's some news from the world of marathon running including some stunning

0:57.0

debuts in Dubai and last minute course disasters in Miami.

1:01.4

Tom talks to the man who in 1954 paced Roger Bannister to the first sub four minute mile and won Commonwealth goal over three miles and broke the 5,000 meter world record and became the first ever sports

1:16.3

personality of the year Sir Chris Chatterway. In a special training talk Liz

1:20.4

Yelling talks to consultant pediatrician Imogen Norton all about running and babies

1:24.6

Tony brings us up to speed in his crazy world you rate your runs and have a rant what a show

1:31.1

Tom Williams what have you been doing?

1:33.6

God dear, what a show, isn't it?

1:35.6

And I think the intro to Sir Chris Chatterway is probably the longest intro we've ever done.

1:41.5

Now we probably could have beaten it the week before with

1:43.2

highly had we had all day to read out highly stuff but yeah it did go on a bit it was amazing I was

1:49.5

truly truly humbled to speak to the great man.

1:52.7

So that was fantastic.

1:53.8

I hope everybody enjoys that.

1:54.7

I also spoke to Paul Evans later the same day.

1:57.2

Now, a lot of our listeners will be going,

1:59.9

Paul who?

2:01.0

And you know, we don't even know the name.

2:02.4

And yet Paul Evans is the fourth

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