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A four-minute mile is the completion of a mile run (1.6 km) in four minutes or less. It translates to a speed of 15 miles per hour (24 km/h). [ 1 ] It is a standard of professional middle distance runners in several cultures.
This is a list of American high school students who have run a four-minute mile since the feat was first accomplished in 1964. The first person to run the mile (1,760 yards, or 1,609.344 metres) in under four minutes was Roger Bannister in 1954, in a time of 3:59.4. [1]
Roger Bannister and John Landy at Iffley Road on the 50th anniversary of the four-minute mile 6 May 2004. After his relative failure at the 1952 Olympics, Bannister spent two months deciding whether to give up running. He set himself on a new goal: to be the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. [12]
Speed work is so important when it comes to breaking the four-minute mile barrier because an athlete must run the first three laps in at most 60 seconds each and sprint the final one in even less ...
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On the women's side, the first sub-5:00 mile was achieved by the UK's Diane Leather 23 days after Bannister's first sub-4:00 mile. However, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) did not recognize women's records for the distance until 1967, when Anne Smith of the UK ran 4:37.0.
Birnbaum won the one-mile run in 3 minutes and 59.51 seconds at the Brooks PR Invitational. He becomes the 17th American runner to break the 4-minute mile mark while in high school since 1964. ...