Herb Elliott
AUSTRALIAN running legend Herb Elliott has bought a home at Byron Bay. Mr Elliott, along with Australian swimming matriarch Dawn Fraser, is famed among the 1950s generation of Australian athletes and bears the staggering record of going from 1957 to 1961 without losing a single race at 1500m or one mile.
Mr Elliott, born in 1938, debuted two years after the 1956 Melbourne Olympics -— to which he had gone as a spectator —- when he became the youngest athlete to break the four-minute-mile. Before the year was out he had broken the world 1500m record and won two gold medals (in the mile and 880 yard events) at the Cardiff Empire Games. Mr Elliott was honoured for his achievements with an MBE in 1964. Since retiring from competition, Mr Elliott has maintained an active role in Australian athletics, joining the Australian Olympic Committee in the lead-up to the Sydney Olympics, and since 2001 taking directorships of organisations ranging from Pacific-Dunlop and the Richmond Football Club. Mr Elliott had lived in Sydney’s Neutral Bay, but has recently bought a new home at Ewingsdale. The Northern Star is trying to contact Mr Elliott, who is in Melbourne for the Commonwealth Games, to learn whether he intends to move into the house.
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