Derek Ibbotson

Derek Ibbotson ( George Derek Ibbotson; born June 17, 1932 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire ) is a British athlete who was successful in the late 1950s. He had been on the means and long-haul - Specialized - 1 mile and 5000 m or 3 miles.

Career

. * Inter- Counties Championships

At the annual global leaderboard he came four times in the top ten:

From Ibbotsons career mainly three events stand out:

• Winning the bronze medal at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne: Ibbotson started about 5000 m and qualified as fourth in its forward travel 14:18,78 min for the final. In none of the three preliminary periods were achieved under 14 minutes. Even in the final this was only the first three winners: the Ukrainian Volodymyr Kuz, who won the gold medal in the Olympic record time of 13:39,86 min, Ibbotsons compatriot Gordon Pirie, on the wide margin in 13:50,58 min Place 2 came, and finally Derek Ibbotson himself, who broke in as a third party in 13:54,16 min and won bronze.

• World record over 1 mile: Once in 1954, the Brit Roger Bannister had covered the first man of the earth the mile in less than four minutes, a large number of runners was suddenly seized with the ambition, also known as a " dream mile" to run. In 1956, when the world record was ( established by the Australian John Landy June 21, 1954) already in 3:58,0 min, this feat is six runners, including Derek Ibbotson, of 3:59,4 min achieved. . A year later, on July 19 in London, then hit his hour: In 3:57,2 min he took over from not only John Landy as the world record holder, but I went with Ron Delany, Stanislav Jungwirth and Kenneth Wood, three more runners with, all of which remained under four minutes. Ibbotson was allowed to a full year long enjoy his power before the Australian Herb Elliott the world record pressed on 7 August 1958 in Dublin on 3:54,5 min.

• World record in the 4x1 mile in 16:30,6 min, run on September 27, 1958 at an international match against Great Britain Finland.

Otherwise Ibbotson was an exceptionally luckless runner. For the European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm and 1962 in Budapest, he could not qualify, and at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1958 in Cardiff and in 1962 in Perth, where he went to the start of the 3 -mile distance, he came Warning about successes (seats 10 and 8) are not beyond. Nevertheless, he was active until well into the 1960s.