Time barrier shattered by runner Roger Bannister in 1954
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Roger Bannister : Athletes : Bring Back the Mile  At the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada, ... For the first time in the same Mile race, two men broke 4 minutes with Bannister ... So the Everest of athletics has been scaled, the sound barrier of running has ... The shoes Sir Roger Bannister wore when he ran the first sub-4 minute Mile will...
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Roger Bannister remembers his mile milestone  USATODAY.com  Mar 1, 2012 ... Roger Bannister recounts that magical four-lap race on a cinder track in Oxford in 1954 when he broke the four-minute mile. ... 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds, and the first to break the barrier humans thought was impossible. ... He represents a simpler, amateur era, a throwback to a time associated with fair play,...
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Bannister, 85, Reflects 60 Years After Breaking the Four-Minute Mile ...  May 3, 2014 ... Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile on May 6, 1954. ... medical student, became the first runner to break the four-minute barrier in the mile, ... field lore, a symbol of boundary-breaking endurance that stands the test of time. ... Bannister's right ankle was shattered in a car accident in 1975, and he has...
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Roger Bannister - Wikipedia  Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister CBE (born 23 March 1929) is an English former middle-distance ... the cheers of the crowd drowned out Bannister's exact time, which was 3 min 59.4 .... But other runners were making attempts at the four-minute barrier and ... Then early in 1954, Landy made some more attempts at the distance.
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What We Mortals Can Learn from the 4-Minute Mile - No Meat Athlete  On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute barrier, running the distance in 3:59.4. ... started training with them, guys and girls who do 50's and 100's all the time. ... Landy had joined him in breaking the four-minute barrier (Landy shattered it, ... Thirteen months after Bannister, an additional three runners broke four...
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jeopardy/281_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  JOLLY ROGER | He ran an historic 5,280 feet on May 6, 1954, later became a ... the '70s Jon Landau wrote he saw rock & roll's future & its name was this Jersey guy; guess he ... right: Wrong: Triple Stumper. Mark: What is Disneyland? Value: $400 ... JOLLY ROGER | The New England university named for this man is seen...
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THE BEST OF TIMES - SI.com  THE FOLLOWING PAGES PROVIDE A YEAR-BY-YEAR CHRONICLE, ... choice to break the barrier was a 25-year-old British medical student, Roger Bannister, .... records with his Comets a manic number entitled Rock Around the Clock. .... Artist Henri Matisse, 84; actor Sydney Green-street, 74; editor Walter Howey, 72, the...
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The First 4-Minute Mile, 60 Years Ago - History in the Headlines  May 6, 2014 ... For more than a decade the world record for the mile had remained stuck ... that blew across Oxford's Iffley Road track on the evening of May 6, 1954. ... Bannister's medical training restricted his track time to 45 minutes daily, but it gave him a ... per lap, meaning he would in actuality have to run a 3:56 mile.
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Roger Bannister remembers his mile milestone  USATODAY.com  Mar 1, 2012 ... Running for the Amateur Athletic Association against Oxford ... magical four-lap race on a cinder track in Oxford in 1954 that still stands as a ... He represents a simpler, amateur era, a throwback to a time .... "There was no logic in my mind that if you can run a mile in 4 minutes, 1 and 2/5ths, you can't run it in...
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A Life Defined-The 60th Anniversary of the "Four Minute Mile", by ...  May 6, 2014 ... The following article, by reknowned coach Peter J. L. Thompson, puts the sixtieth anniversary of the first sub four minute mile and Sir Roger Banniste. ... Joy of Running', a June 20th, 1955, Sports Illustrated autobiographical article: ... He finished fourth in the 1500m, breaking the existing Olympic record, but...
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First four-minute mile - May 06, 1954 - HISTORY.com  The world record for a mile was 4 minutes and 1.3 seconds, set by Gunder Hagg of Sweden in 1945. Despite, or perhaps because of, the psychological mystique...
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1954 - Search-ID.com  Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friay (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar). ... begin in Algeria; In this year, "Rock Around The Clock" was recorded, Roger Bannister beat the clock & Henri Matisse clocked out...
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Behind The Photo That Changed The Boston Marathon Forever  Apr 20, 2015 ... Everyone knows someone who's run the marathon. ... did not sanction the participation of women in distance running. ... She was intrigued and, after working her way up to a run of 25-plus ... I knew that she had run and run really well. ... 740 other entrants who lined up at Hopkinton, Mass. on April 19, 1967.
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1954 - Wikipedia  1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Gregorian .... April  Bill Haley & His Comets record "Rock Around the Clock", thus starting ... May 6  Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four minute mile, in Oxford, ... counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy,...
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Roger Bannister - Wikipedia  Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister CBE (born 23 March 1929) is an English former middle-distance athlete, physician and academic, who ran the first sub-four-minute mile. In the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Bannister set a British record in the 1500 metres but finished fourth. This strengthened his resolve to be the first 4-minute miler. .... And at the end of the year, Australian John Landy ran 4:02.0.
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What We Mortals Can Learn from the 4-Minute Mile - No Meat Athlete  On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute barrier, running the distance in ... after Bannister's accomplishment, someone else ran a mile in under 4 minutes. .... Looked at in that context, breaking 4:00first one man, then a parade of...
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Four-minute mile - Wikipedia  In the sport of athletics, the four-minute mile means completing the mile run (1,760 yards, ... Breaking the four-minute barrier was first achieved on 6 May 1954 at Oxford University's Iffley Road ... New Zealand's John Walker, the first man to run the mile under 3:50, managed to run 135 sub-four-minute miles during his career...
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Boston Marathon - ESPN Topics - ESPN - ESPN.com  Apr 8, 2015 ... On April 19, 1897, 18 participants entered the inaugural race -- initially ... York crossing the finish line first after covering the 24 miles in 2:55:10. ... That same year, Bill Rodgers won the first of his four titles in Boston that ... Salazar the victory by two seconds and a winning time of 2:08:52. ..... April 17, 2016.
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What We Mortals Can Learn from the 4-Minute Mile - No Meat Athlete  On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute barrier, running the distance ... But once he crashed through that barrier, the rest of the world saw that it was possible ... within a year of his sub-four mile only Landy had joined him in breaking the ... Looked at in that context, breaking 4:00first one man, then a parade of...
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Rafer Johnson - ESPN.com  6, 1960. If Johnson came within 10 seconds of Yang's time in the 1,500, the ... the hometown of Bob Mathias, who would win the decathlon in the 1948 and 1952 Olympics. ... In 1956, he won his first national decathlon championship. ... Johnson had the gold medal, setting a then-Olympic record of 8,392 points in the process...
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Feature Comeback - Did You Know? | IGN Boards - IGN.com  The record time for completing a "Times" puzzle was an incredible 3 minutes and 45 seconds by a British diplomat named Roy Dean in 1970.