For a long time, the idea of any human running a mile faster than 4 minutes was thought of as the impossible. But in the months after England’s Roger Bannister finally broke that record in 1954, ...

In June 2025, during a Nike-sponsored event, world champion and Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner Faith Kipyegon attempted to become the first woman to break the four-minute mile barrier. She ...

BOSTON — Westview High School senior Noah Bontrager turned in a remarkable performance Sunday at the New Balance Indoor Nationals in Boston, Massachusetts. At that event, Bontrager became the first ...

Your days of running a timed mile may have ended after leaving grade school, but you likely remember just how brutal it felt. A 6- or 7-minute mile was considered solid. Every so often, a gifted ...

The world record for the mile hovered just above 4 minutes for nine years, with challengers unable to break that coveted figure. England's Roger Bannister, a 1952 Olympian who finished fourth in the 1 ...

In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under four minutes. Within 12 months, multiple other runners had done the ...

Over Valentine's Day weekend, the Pitt Panthers track and field team participated in the BU David Hemery Valentine Invitational at the Boston University Tennis and Track Center. At the invitational, ...

It was almost 41 years after the first official world record in the men’s mile was recognized by World Athletics (then the International Amateur Athletics Federation) that Roger Bannister broke the ...

TOPEKA, Ind. – Indiana’s first high school boy to run a sub-4-minute mile is not from Indianapolis or its collar counties. Nor from the population centers outside Chicago, Cincinnati or Louisville, Ky ...

Southlake Carroll senior Caden Leonard nearly became the second Texas high school boy to ever break 4 minutes in the mile when he ran 4:00.07 indoors Saturday at the ASICS Sound Invite in ...