Gunder Hagg, Swedish runner with seven world records
Gunder Hagg, Swedish runner with seven world records, arrived at LaGuardia Airport. June 6, 1943. He traveled from neutral Sweden to compete in U.S. track meets. Two years later, Hagg ran a mile in 4:01.4 seconds in Malmo, Sweden in 1945. The record held until broken by Roger Bannister in Oxford in 1954. (CSU_2015_11_1442)
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11061320
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Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
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Everett Collection
