Can a man learn anything about life from sport? One notable answer comes from famed Miler Roger Bannister, first to run a faster-than-four-minute mile (3:59.4) and now house physician at London ...

Roger Bannister was studying medicine at Oxford when he bacame the first man to run the mile in under 4 minutes.At the Iffley Road track in Oxford Roger Bannister became the first man to run 1 ...

The dream of a four-minute mile ... of the first to be shut out of the 1,500-meter heats at the Olympics. But as a sidelined observer, Miler Landy took due note of the peculiar running style ...

The first 200 athletes to break the four-minute mile spanned a period of 20 years from 1954 to 1974. They came from 28 different countries across Europe, North America, Oceania and Africa.

the Sub-4 Alphabetic Register was used to extract the first 200 athletes to run a sub-4 min mile. Each runner’s date of birth, date of their first successful mile attempt, current age (if alive) or ...

The pulsating contest, watched by 35,000 people in Vancouver, took place just three months after Bannister became the first person in history to record a sub-four-minute mile, at Oxford’s Iffley ...

who ran the first sub-four-minute mile: "Prior to Roger Bannister doing [it], it was thought as impossible to go under four minutes. He breaks it, and right afterward you see a bunch of runners be ...