A community race to celebrate the first four-minute mile will become an annual event, its organisers have announced. The ...

The runner from Tauranga, New Zealand, is now the youngest athlete to break the four-minute barrier in the event. Prior to ...

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A 15-year-old schoolboy from New Zealand has become the youngest person ever to break the four-minute mile – and he’s on his ...

15-year-old New Zealand athlete Sam Ruthe became the youngest person ever to run a sub-four-minute mile on Wednesday. Ruthe ...

By Jeré Longman Nearly three-quarters of a century after Roger Bannister of Britain, in 1954, became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes, an achievement that many at the time ...

An event celebrating Sir Roger Bannister's four-minute mile in Oxford will return following the success of last year's inaugural event.

New Zealand's Sam Ruthe has become the youngest person in history to run a sub-four-minute mile, aged 15. The middle-distance ...

At 15, Sam Ruthe has become the youngest athlete in history to run a sub-four-minute mile on Wednesday, some 71 years since ...

A sub-four-minute mile has long been considered one of the great barriers in athletics, a feat first achieved by Great Britain’s Roger Bannister in 1954. Developments in training and shoe ...

Sam Ruthe poses next to his record-breaking time after breaking the four-minute mile.Credit: Getty Images Roger Bannister was a 25-year-old Oxford University medical student in May 1954 ...

Sir Roger Bannister managed the feat just 0.6 seconds shy of four minutes A community race to celebrate the first four-minute mile will become an annual event, its organisers have announced.