Ebook {Epub PDF} The Four-Minute Mile by Roger Bannister

 · Four Minutes: Directed by Charles Beeson. With Jamie Maclachlan, Christopher Plummer, Shaun Smyth, Amy Rutherford. The story of the four minute mile-breaker Roger Bannister/10().  · The sad news of the passing of Roger Bannister, the first human being to run a four-minute mile, is an opportunity to think about his legacy — not just as Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.  · Sir Roger Bannister, the first person to run a mile in under four minutes, has died at the age of His time of three minutes seconds, set at Iffley Road sports ground in Oxford on 6 May , stood as a record for just 46 days but his place in athletics history was assured.

In f. About 58 years ago, on May 6, , Roger Bannister of England broke the four-minute barrier for a Mile race for the first time in history. I read The Perfect Mile that detailed how the stage for this athletics breakthrough was set up among Bannister, John Landy of Australia and Wes Santee of the United States. Bannister vs. Landy. On August 7, during the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, B.C., England's Roger Bannister and Australian John Landy met for the first time in the one mile run at the newly constructed Empire Stadium. Both men had broken the four minute barrier previously that year. roger Bannister breaks the four minute mile.

Roger Bannister, First Athlete to Break the 4-Minute Mile, Dies at Read in app. Credit Associated Press. By Frank Litsky and Bruce Weber. March 4, On the morning of May 6, , a. Roger Bannister runs first four-minute mile. In Oxford, England, year-old medical student Roger Bannister cracks track and field’s most notorious barrier: the four-minute mile. In , at the age of 25, Roger Bannister became the first person to break the four-minute barrier for the mile, with a recorded time of A little over a year later, Bannister retired from racing, and wrote a book entitled, "The First Four Minutes".