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An earlier women's world record, 4:12.56 set by Svetlana Masterkova of Russia on 14 August 1996 at Zürich, stood for almost 23 years: Masterkova became the first woman to run the mile in less than 4 minutes and 15 seconds.
Mar 9, 2018 · The sad news of the passing of Roger Bannister, the first human being to run a four-minute mile, is an opportunity to think about his legacy — not just as one of the great athletes of the...
Mar 4, 2021 · This article tells the full story of the journey to break the barrier of the 4 minute mile, a feat once thought impossible, and what followed subsequently in the field of athletic achievement. The USA has always embraced the distance and can point to 4 WR times, one by the teenage prodigy, Jim Ryun.
May 6, 2014 · Look back at the day 60 years ago when British medical student Roger Bannister became the first man to run a mile in less than 4 minutes.
Feb 9, 2010 · In Oxford, England, 25-year-old medical student Roger Bannister cracks track and field’s most notorious barrier: the four-minute mile. Bannister, who was running for the Amateur Athletic...
Jan 24, 2022 · The four-minute mile is no longer seen as unattainable but remains the mark of a skilled distance runner. Roger Bannister’s legacy has left an important lesson about human achievement and what it takes to go beyond the limitations of your own mind and the ones that society creates.
May 6, 2024 · The 70th anniversary of Sir Roger Bannister’s sub-four-minute mile has been celebrated in Oxford across the bank holiday weekend of 4-6 May. A three-day pop-up Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) 1500m & Mile Heritage Display at Oxford University Athletics Club’s (OUAC) track at Iffley Road culminates today (6) with the OUAC’s Bannister ...
Mar 29, 2004 · Half a century ago, the ambition to achieve that goal equaled scaling Everest or sailing alone around the world. Most people considered running four laps of the track in four minutes to be...
May 8, 2014 · Roger Bannister was credited with being the first person to run a mile in under four minutes - but 18th Century runners are reported to have got there first. Why are they not recognised? It was...
May 3, 2014 · On a wet, blustery spring day, May 6, 1954, Bannister, then 25 and a lanky English medical student, became the first runner to break the four-minute barrier in the mile, a feat that many had...
