Word: andersson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...track world's favorite fable almost came true last week. Arne Andersson ran within a moment's breath of the "impossible" four-minute mile. In a race with Gunder Hagg at Malmo, Sweden, the 27-year-old grammar-school teacher accomplished the distance in 4:01.6, clipping a full second off his own world's record, set just a year ago. Although he was beaten by some six feet, 25-year-old Hagg also shattered the old mark with a time...
...good miler. Last week he looked like a great one. In the Chicago Relays he pounded out a blistering 4:06.4, smashing his own week-old world indoor record (TIME, March 20). This led to predictions of even faster times this summer. Outdoors, Dodds may yet approach Arne Andersson's world mark...
...Alfred W. Francis, research chemist and amateur trackman, in Science. Using a plot of average speed in meters per second against the logarithm of the distance, he drew a graph of 17 record marks, from 200 meters to 10 miles. The point for one mile was well below Arne Andersson's present record: 4:02.6. Dr. Francis, whose own record for the mile is 4:38, figures...
...world's official two-mile (best time, his own unofficial 8:47.8, set in Sweden last summer), the U.S. 1,500-meter (3:47.8) and U.S. outdoor mile (4:05.3). He began packing to go back to Sweden. There in his absence another runner, his friend, hulking Arne Andersson, had smashed Gunder's mile record with a mark...
Last week, on the eve of his second U.S. appearance, Gunder Hägg was doubly sorry his shadow had stayed home. In the National Swedish Festival track meet at Gothenburg, just a year to the day after Hägg broke the world's mile record, Andersson beat it by two full seconds with a 4:02.6 mile...