The Museum of World Athletics is creating a display of magnificent mile-related memorabilia in Oxford on May 6

The Bannister Miles event in Oxford on May 6 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the first sub-four-minute mile will feature a number of vintage items thanks to the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) and the global governing bodys Heritage department.

There will be a display at Iffley Road in Oxford from Saturday May 4 to Monday May 6 and it will include

In total the 17 athletes above include seven Olympic and five world 1500m champions and seven world mile record-breakers, the first man to go sub-3.30 for the 1500m, the first men to go sub-4 in the mile indoors and outdoors, the first woman inside five minutes, the current outdoor world record-holders for both the mens and womens miles, the womens indoor 1500m record-holder, and four runners, each world indoor mile record-breakers, who have between them won 20 Wanamaker Mile titles.

The Bannister Miles event on May 6 will see a mass community mile on the roads plus a series of BMC races on Monday afternoon. You can find out more here.

This follows the recent Museum of World Athletics event in Glasgow city centre earlier this month where, among other things, Coe announced the awarding of a World Athletics Heritage Plaque in the posthumous category of Legend to The Flying Scotsman Eric Liddell.

The presentation of the plaque took place in front of an invited audience of 150 guests that included 1980 Olympic 100m champion Allan Wells and 2000 Olympic heptathlon champion Denise Lewis, who earlier in the ceremony had made donations of historic clothing and shoes from their competition careers to the Museum of World Athletics.