Athletics at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games – Men's 1 mile

Men's 1 mile at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Venue	Independence Park, Kingston
Dates	August 11 and 13, 1966
Medalists
Kip Keino    Kenya   Alan Simpson    England   Ian Studd    New Zealand
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Athletics at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 yd	men	women
220 yd	men	women
440 yd	men	women
880 yd	men	women
1 mile	men
3 miles	men
6 miles	men
80 m hurdles		women
120 yd hurdles	men
440 yd hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 110 yd relay	men	women
4 × 440 yd relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 miles walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Decathlon	men
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The men's 1 mile event at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was held on 11 and 13 August at the Independence Park in Kingston, Jamaica.^[1] It was the last time that the imperial distance was contested at the Games, being replaced subsequently by the 1500 metres.

Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kip Keino  Kenya	Alan Simpson  England	Ian Studd  New Zealand

Heats

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Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) qualify directly for the final.

Heats results. See the qualification criteria

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Kip Keino	Kenya	3:57.4	Q
2	1	Walter Wilkinson	England	4:05.7	Q
3	1	Keith Wheeler	Australia	4:07.77	Q
4	1	Ian Studd	New Zealand	4:09.5	Q
5	1	Pascal Mfyomi	Tanzania	4:10.2
6	1	John Linaker	Scotland	4:14.5
7	1	Yvo Labonte	Mauritius	4:33.2
	1	Robert Lightburn	British Honduras	DNS
	1	John Boulter	England	DNS
	1	Mohamed Ismail	Aden	DNS
1	2	Ergas Leps	Canada	4:09.1	Q
2	2	Derek Graham	Northern Ireland	4:09.4	Q
3	2	Kerry O'Brien	Australia	4:09.84	Q
4	2	Graeme Grant	Scotland	4:10.1	Q
5	2	Neill Duggan	England	4:10.2
6	2	Earl Belcher	Jamaica	4:13.8
7	2	Franklin Rahming	Bahamas	4:34.2
	2	Ron Clarke	Australia	DNS
	2	Charles Harewood	Barbados	DNS
	2	Allieu Massaquoi	Sierra Leone	DNS
	2	Lennox Yearwood	Trinidad and Tobago	DNS
1	3	Alan Simpson	England	4:02.5	Q
2	3	Ralph Doubell	Australia	4:04.0	Q
3	3	Arthur Pyne	New Zealand	4:04.5	Q
4	3	Robert Rwakojo	Uganda	4:04.7	Q
5	3	Edward Sequeira	India	4:07.0
6	3	Dave Bailey	Canada	4:12.2
7	3	Ramsay Subramaniam	Malaysia	4:16.6
8	3	Tony Harris	Wales	4:24.6
9	3	Frederick Sowerby	Antigua and Barbuda	5:08.0
	3	Derek Cambridge	Bahamas	DNS
	3	Benedict Cayenne	Trinidad and Tobago	DNS
	3	Omari Abdallah	Tanzania	DNS

Final

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Final results: GR means Games Record

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Kip Keino	Kenya	3:55.34	GR
	Alan Simpson	England	3:57.27
	Ian Studd	New Zealand	3:58.61
4	Walter Wilkinson	England	3:59.3
5	Derek Graham	Northern Ireland	3:59.4
6	Keith Wheeler	Australia	3:59.81
7	Ergas Leps	Canada	4:01.0
8	Kerry O'Brien	Australia	4:02.72
9	Robert Rwakojo	Uganda	4:03.0
10	Arthur Pyne	New Zealand	4:03.2
	Ralph Doubell	Australia	DNF
	Graeme Grant	Scotland	DNF