Track cities

Which cities host the best track meets ? The following bar chart graph traces the cumulative aggregate scores of all performances in the top 20 cities. As always, the data is based on alltime-athletics.com. The starting point in 1954 marks the first sub-4 minute mile achieved by Roger Bannister in Oxford, followed by John Landy's lowering of that record a few weeks later in Turku, and finally the showdown between the two at the Empire Games in Vancouver, won by Bannister in 3:58.8.