Herb Elliott's Mile world record: extremely rare athletics programme for Morton Stadium in Dublin, on 6th and 7th August 1958, the stadium was opened in 1958 with a cinder track. An inaugural series of meetings was held, and on August 6, 1958, Australian Herb Elliott shattered the world record for the mile with a time of 3 minutes 54.5 seconds. This was the first race in which 5 athletes had run a sub-four minute mile