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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]
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.
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] This barrier would not be broken by a high school student until 1964, when Jim Ryun ran the distance in a time of 3:59.0 at the Compton Relays. [ 2 ]
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.
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, it’s still the standard for middle-distance runners.
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 ...
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]