... 1954 Roger Bannister becomes the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes, a barrier that many experts had long considered to be unbreakable. His time is 3min 59.45ec. For his accomplishments, he becomes Sports Illustrated's first Sportsman of ...

... 1956 (Above) Roger Bannister runs the first fourminute rnile. (Right) Stirling Moss in Italy Stirling Moss, navigated by Denis J enkinson, becomes the first British driver and only the second non-ltalian to win the Mille Miglia ofltaly. Moss goes on to ...

... Brasher and Chris Chataway (with Bannister, inset lift) set the pace. But as the athletes reached the bell in a time hitherto unmatched, one man, taller than the others, broke free and pushed out on his own. Roger Bannister covered the last lap in 59 seconds ...

... Great names a bound in the last 17 years : Roger Bannister (Fig. 8), who won the mile four times from 1947 to 1950 and in 1954 became the first man to beat four minutes ; Chris Chataway, who followed Bannister wi th t hree wins and also became a four-minute ...

... his three time-consuming waves to the capacity crowd along the home straight. Ovett has not had the same opportunity as Roger Bannister, the first man under 4min for the mile, to be a pioneer of record-breaking in the middle distances. But, win or lose in ...

... this grant appears generous, though of course a 30 per cent increase only just keeps pace with inflation. it enough? Dr Roger Bannister, Chairman of the Sports Council, argued at a press conference held last week that sport needs a higher priority in the ...

... our towns and cities. Launching a Sport for All campaign in London last week, the chairman of the Sports Council, Dr. Roger Bannister, said that all too often active recreation was not treated as an essential part of life but only as a residual element ...

... compare staged for an Olympic record-breaking H aegg. tenths purposes, of interest r LESS Bannister breasting t h tap e O:x;ford · THE MI LE I r LESS THA Roger Bannister breasting th e tap e at th e end of his l. { I=> ,_, · _3 mins. 59·4 secs. mile at O:x;ford ...

... will be interested in the family activity holidays now being planned by the Sports Council, under the chairmanship of Dr Roger Bannister. At Dartington Hall School, Totnes, South Devon, one-week holidays are being organised in which parents and children will ...

... Chataway's new record of 4 m ins. 8.4 secs. has been bettered, in British athletics, only by Sidney \Vooderson himself and Roger Bannister, both in ummer conditions. And t his in :\larch, with a bitter breeze freezing us under our rugs. Now Alan Dick takes ...

... from which a rubber mould can be taken. The firm of Thomas and Wilson of Fulham employed a team of eight modellers under Roger Bannister. The project was managed on site by Hugh Barrel!, a long-standing partner of Erith & T erry, and the main contractor was ...

... money, those who fear that the axe is swinging their way are tempted t o cry out before the blow falls. Last week Dr Roger Bannister, Chairman of the Sports Council, gave a warning against what he saw as the dangers of a cutback in public expendi- His ...