1933
Brian Stanford Hewson, Great Britain, middle-distance runner. Brian Hewson won the silver medal for the 880-yard run at the 1954 (Vancouver) Commonwealth Games. The following year he began training under Franz Stampfl (who had coached Roger Bannister) and became the fifth athlete in history to break 4:00 in the one-mile run, running 3:59.8 in a race where he finished third behind Laszlo Tabori and Chris Chataway. Hewson went on to win a gold medal at the 1958 (Stockholm) European Athletics Championships in the 1,500m (3:41.9) and a silver medal at the 1958 (Cardiff) Commonwealth Games in the 880-yard run (1:49.5). He represented Great Britain in the 800m at the 1956 (Melbourne) and 1960 (Rome) Olympic Games. Hewson details his running career in his entertaining memoir, Flying Feet.
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