Back on 6 May 1954, Roger Bannister ran a mile round the University of Oxford athletics track in three minutes 59.4 seconds. Seventy years to the day on from that seismic moment, hundreds of us ...

Don’t Let the Teamsters Pick the Labor Secretary A week has passed since Roger Bannister died. The legend of the race to break the four-minute mile will live on. It united the Anglosphere in ...

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 commemorative coins mark events including Sir Roger Bannister running the first sub four-minute mile and the 250th anniversary of the founding of Kew Gardens in London. The founding of the ...

Oxford City Council wanted to rename the ward after Sir Roger Bannister A proposal to rename ... the first man to complete a four-minute mile. But the Local Government Boundary Commission said ...

Englishman Roger Banister was a hero throughout the ... minutes in the same race and became known as the “Miracle Mile”. Bannister and Landy both pointed out that the crucial moment of the ...

This concept is named after English athlete Roger Bannister, who was the first person to run a mile in under four minutes. His accomplishment demonstrated that such a feat was indeed possible ...