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Diane Susan Leather Charles (7 January 1933 – 5 September 2018) was an English athlete who was the first woman to run a sub-5-minute mile. [1]Inspired to take up running aged 19 after watching the 1952 Olympic Games, within months Leather had become national cross-country champion, a title she would go on to win four times.
An earlier women's world record, 4:12.56 set by Svetlana Masterkova of Russia on 14 August 1996 at Zürich, stood for almost 23 years: Masterkova became the first woman to run the mile in less than 4 minutes and 15 seconds. Kipyegon's run has led some to speculate that the first women's sub-four minute mile may come within the 21st century. [31]
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] Ryun went on to set a national high school record of 3 ...
Manzano first broke the four-minute mile barrier when he ran a 3:59.86 in Omaha, Nebraska, at the Big 12 Indoor Championships in 2005. ... Crayton Carrozza and Yusuf Bizimana, have broken the ...
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Delaware comes off the list of states that have not had a sub-4-minute mile on its soil as Tatnall grad Sam Parsons breaks the mark at his alma mater. Delaware sees first (and second) 4-minute ...
The men's mile run competition – dubbed The Miracle Mile – represented a landmark in the history of the Four-minute mile. Roger Bannister had been the first to have broken the barrier earlier that year, but Landy followed soon after with sub-4 minute (and world record time) of his own. The games offered the first time that two sub-4 minute ...
The men's under-20 mile was held the day before the rest of the program, on 3 February. In the race, Jojo Jourdon became the 21st American high school student to have run a four-minute mile by running 3:59.87. [1] [2] In the main program, Gabby Thomas, who attended high school and college in Boston, won the 300 metres event. [3]