Canadian Operating is saddened to share the passing of Athletics Ontario Corridor of Fame member and the primary Canadian to run a sub-four-minute mile, Dr. David George Bailey, who died in his London, Ont. house at age 77 on Aug. 27.
Bailey distinguished himself as a pioneer in Canadian athletics, changing into Canada’s first sub-four-minute miler in a time of three:59.1 in 1966. A yr later, Bailey topped his mark with a 3:57.7 in Toronto.
Bailey was a member of 9 Canadian monitor and discipline groups, competing on the World College Video games in Budapest 1965 and Tokyo 1967; Commonwealth Video games in Jamaica 1966; Pan American Video games in Winnipeg 1967 and the 1968 Olympic Video games in Mexico Metropolis. He earned a bronze medal for Crew Canada within the 1,500m on the 1967 Pan-American Video games in Winnipeg.
Off the monitor, Bailey labored on a scientific pharmacology examine investigating the connection between a blood stress decreasing drug and alcohol. In 1991, he found the irregular response between some medicines and grapefruit juice. In case you ever see a little bit sticker in your drugs bottle saying, “Don’t take this with grapefruit juice,” you possibly can you should definitely bear in mind Dr. Bailey.
In 2016, Bailey was inducted into the Athletics Ontario Corridor of Fame, and he’s a two-time inductee into the College of Toronto Sports activities Corridor of Fame (individually in 1998 and as a crew member in 2003).
