Commonwealth Games jersey, 1954

Six weeks after Bannister’s record breaking race, Australian John Landy set a new record of 3:57.9. Bannister and Landy faced off at the Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, later that year. Bannister beat out Landy by just two tenths of a second. Bannister wore this cotton jersey in that race.
Gift of Sir Roger Bannister

Courtesy National Museum of American History