Athletics at the 1938 British Empire Games
Track events
100 yd	men	women
220 yd	men	women
440 yd	men
880 yd	men
1 mile	men
3 miles	men
6 miles	men
80 m hurdles		women
120 yd hurdles	men
220 yd hurdles (invitation)	men
440 yd hurdles	men
4 × 110 yd relay	men
110–220–110 yd relay		women
220–110–220–110 yd relay		women
4 × 440 yd relay	men
2 miles walk (invitation)	men
Road events
Marathon	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
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The men's 1 mile event at the 1938 British Empire Games was held on 10 and 12 February at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Sydney, Australia.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Jim Alford  Wales	Gerald Backhouse  Australia	Pat Boot  New Zealand

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) qualify directly for the final.^[2][3][4]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Jim Alford	Wales	4:17.3	Q
2	1	Robert Graham	Scotland	4:18.8e	Q, 10 yards behind
3	1	Bill Pullar	New Zealand	4:19.5e	Q, 4 yards behind
4	1	Theo Allen	New Zealand	4:20.0e	Q, 4 yards behind
5	1	Max Fleming	Australia	?:??.?
6	1	Fred Barry-Brown	Australia	?:??.?
7	1	Abbot Conway	Canada	?:??.?
	1	Bill Dale	Canada	DNS
	1	Peter Ward	England	DNS
	1	Noel Stanford	Trinidad and Tobago	DNS
1	2	Gerald Backhouse	Australia	4:18.0	Q
2	2	Pat Boot	New Zealand	?:??.?	Q, 1.5 yards behind
3	2	Bernard Eeles	England	?:??.?	Q, 15 yards behind
4	2	Arthur Clarke	Canada	?:??.?	Q
5	2	Nicolaas Wessels	South Africa	?:??.?
6	2	Alexander Haire	Northern Ireland	?:??.?
7	2	Donald Bonham	Australia	?:??.?
	2	Max Lenover	Canada	DNS
	2	Cecil Matthews	New Zealand	DNS

^[5][6][7]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jim Alford	Wales	4:11.6	GR
	Gerald Backhouse	Australia	4:12.2e	4 yards behind
	Pat Boot	New Zealand	4:12.6e	2 yards behind
4	Arthur Clarke	Canada	4:14.4e
5	Bernard Eeles	England	4:15.2e
6	Bill Pullar	New Zealand	?:??.?
	Robert Graham	Scotland	DNF
	Theo Allen	New Zealand	DNF