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  2. Four-minute mile - Wikipedia

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    Blue plaque recording the first sub-four-minute mile, run by Roger Bannister on 6 May 1954 at Oxford University's Iffley Road Track. 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]

  3. Roger Bannister - Wikipedia

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    Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister (23 March 1929 – 3 March 2018) was an English neurologist and middle-distance athlete who ran the first sub-4-minute mile.. At the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Bannister set a British record in the 1500 metres and finished in fourth place.

  4. List of American high school students who have run a four ...

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    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]

  5. Roger Bannister running track - Wikipedia

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    The blue plaque commemorating the first sub-four-minute mile. In 1954, Bannister set himself the target of breaking the four-minute mile barrier. At the time Bannister was a 25-year-old full-time medical student at St Mary's Hospital Medical School. He could only train for 45 minutes a day for the event.

  6. Olympics: Sub-4-minute mile still hallowed for elite runners ...

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    Sixty-seven years after Roger Bannister ran the first sub-4-minute mile, it’s still the standard for middle-distance runners.

  7. Mile run world record progression - Wikipedia

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    After the war, Roger Bannister of the United Kingdom and John Landy of Australia vied to be the first to break the fabled four-minute mile barrier. Roger Bannister did it first on May 6, 1954, and John Landy followed 46 days later. On the women's side, the first sub-5:00 mile was achieved by the UK's Diane Leather 23 days after Bannister's ...

  8. Elite runners and coaches explain what it takes to run a sub ...

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    So it’s all these years of hard work coming to fruition in probably under four minutes.” Manzano first broke the four-minute mile barrier when he ran a 3:59.86 in Omaha, Nebraska, at the Big ...

  9. How Cole Hocker, a 21-to-1 longshot, pulled off biggest upset ...

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    He ran his first sub-4-minute mile in February 2020 before the pandemic shut down college track. A year later, he was down to 3:50, and he ran to three NCAA titles.

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