Vancouver hosted the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954 at Empire Stadium. The most famous event of the games was the One Mile Race in which both John Landy and Roger Bannister ran the distance in under four minutes. The race's end is memorialized in a statue of the two (with Landy glancing over his shoulder, thus losing the race), that stood outside the stadium until its demolition. The statue formerly stood near the south end of Hastings St., but has since been moved to the Pacific National Exhibition north entrance just metres from where the feat took place at the new Empire Fields. See also List of Commonwealth Games venues References External links Empire Stadium 1954 establishments in British Columbia 1993 disestablishments in British Columbia Buildings and structures in Vancouver Canadian Football League venues Defunct soccer venues in Canada Defunct athletics (track and field) venues Defunct Canadian football venues Defunct sports venues in Canada Demolished buildings and structures in British Columbia Hastings Park History of Vancouver Soccer venues in British Columbia Sports venues completed in 1954 Sports venues demolished in 1993 Sports venues in Vancouver Stadiums of the Commonwealth Games Demolished sports venues North American Soccer League (1968–1984) stadiums Canadian football venues in British Columbia