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New Zealand's John Walker, who with a 3:49.4 performance in August 1975 became the first man to run the mile under 3:50, ran 135 sub-four-minute miles during his career (during which he was the first person to run over 100 sub-four-minute miles), and American Steve Scott has run the most sub-four
James Tully Beatty (born October 28, 1934, in New York, New York) is a former American track and field athlete and North Carolina politician. He is best remembered as the first person to break the four-minute mile barrier on an indoor track, when he ran 3:58.9 on February 10, 1962, at the Los Angeles Invitational in the Los Angeles Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California.
He ran the sub four-minute mile on 136 occasions in his career, more than any other runner in history. Scott is also regarded as the founder of speed golf in 1979; on December 2, 1982, Scott set a record for the fastest round of golf played on a regulation course, completing 18 holes in 29 minutes, 33.05 seconds at Miller Golf Course in Anaheim ...
Bob Seaman, a former UCLA track star who became one of the first Americans to run a sub-four-minute mile, died at the age of 88.
Sixty-seven years after Roger Bannister ran the first sub-4-minute mile, ... where he was a five-time NCAA champion and 11-time All-American. He ran a personal best in the mile — 3:50.64 — at ...
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]
He ran his first sub-4-minute mile in February 2020 before the pandemic shut down college track. ... Hocker became the sixth American since 1920 to medal in the 1,500. The others: Glenn Cunningham ...
Despite having accounts of his historic run, Hawk Chief is not always credited as having been the first man to run mile in less than four minutes. This honor is often accredited to British athlete Roger Bannister. He ran his own sub-four mile at a track meet at Oxford, clocking his time at 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds on May 6, 1954. [11]