Race around the CERN site

A team race around the CERN site has become an annual event. It consists of five stages of 1500, 1000, 800, 500 and 300 m and involved forty-five teams in this year's race held on 29 May. Photograph 443.5.74 shows Professor Jentschke, Director General of CERN Laboratory I, firing the starting pistol in the race which was won by a team from Theory Division who, with 12 minutes 5 seconds, comfortably beat the track record.