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

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 later being replaced by the 1500 metres.

Medalists[]

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

Results[]

Heats[]

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

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		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		Scotland	4:14.5
7	1		Mauritius	4:33.2
	1		British Honduras	DNS
	1	John Boulter	England	DNS
	1		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		Scotland	4:10.1	Q
5	2	Neill Duggan	England	4:10.2
6	2		Jamaica	4:13.8
7	2	Franklin Rahming	Bahamas	4:34.2
	2	Ron Clarke	Australia	DNS
	2		Barbados	DNS
	2		Sierra Leone	DNS
	2		Trinidad and Tobago	DNS
1	3	Alan Simpson	England	4:02.5	Q
2	3	Ralph Doubell	Australia	4:04.0	Q
3	3		New Zealand	4:04.5	Q
4	3		Uganda	4:04.7	Q
5	3	Edward Sequeira	India	4:07.0
6	3	Dave Bailey	Canada	4:12.2
7	3		Malaysia	4:16.6
8	3		Wales	4:24.6
9	3	Frederick Sowerby	Antigua and Barbuda	5:08.0
	3		Bahamas	DNS
	3	Benedict Cayenne	Trinidad and Tobago	DNS
	3	Omari Abdallah	Tanzania	DNS

Final[]

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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		Australia	3:59.81
7	Ergas Leps	Canada	4:01.0
8	Kerry O'Brien	Australia	4:02.72
9		Uganda	4:03.0
10		New Zealand	4:03.2
	Ralph Doubell	Australia	DNF
		Scotland	DNF

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