Blog posts mentioning Sir Roger Bannister
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- Bannister Stuns World With 4-Minute Mile
1999 St. Petersburg Times article recalls his record-breaking run
- BBC: On This Day
The British news network's original report of the event
- Academy of Achievement
Biography, photos, and a nice deep interview with Sir Roger
- Sportsman of the Year
He made 1954's Sports Illustrated cover
Sir Roger Bannister Biography
On 6 May 1954, Roger Bannister ran the first timed sub-four-minute mile in history. A medical student at Oxford University at the time, Bannister ran the mile in 3:59:4 at a local meet at Oxford's Iffley Road track. Always an amateur athlete, he retired from competitive running later that year and went on to become a prominent neurologist. His autobiography, First Four Minutes (later reprinted as Four Minute Mile), was published in 1955. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1975.
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Bannister's story was told in the TV movies The Four Minute Mile (1988, with actor Richard Huw as Bannister) and Four Minutes (2005, with Jamie Machlachlan as Bannister)... The track announcer on the day of Bannister's famous run was Norris McWhirter, later a founding editor of The Guinness Book of World Records.
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