... 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 ...

... e barrier by Roger Bannister on May Iffley Road, Oxford. Sir Roger, was there to watch the Bannister having be quite formidable Ovett, 3min 52.8 sec, May 6, as he is now, easily holder they second 58.8 sec, that Sir meant, said Bannister, ...

... 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 ...

... that a recordbreaking racehorse will ever create the universal intere t and admiration that the young medical student Roger Bannister engender d when he broke ilie four-minute barrier for ilie mile at Oxford on that magic evening of May 6, 1954. ri ks ...

... 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 ...

... year of C. C. H encler on-Hamilton's Oxford victory in-+ mins. 17 ! secs., a time bettered only as late as 1949, when Roger Bannister, the first man to run a mile inside four minutes, won for Oxford in 4 mins. 16k secs. He must have concluded that three ...

... 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 ...

... that it was a welcome change to see a notable improvement in confidence by the 20-year-old Steve Cram when he won the Roger Bannister mile. Cram, who has sometimes found it difficult to come to terms with the cut and thrust of top-class racing, and last ...

... 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 ...