Roger Bannister, a British long distance runner, was the first person to ever run a sub-4 minute mile. On May 6, 1954, at Iffley Road Track in Oxford, England, while being watched by about 3,000 spectators and being paced by Chris Brasher and Chris Chattaway, Bannister ran 3:59.4 to become the first to break the 4-minute mile mark. Swedish runner Gundar Haegg's mile time of 4:01.4 had stood for nine years and many "experts" had claimed, at the time, that 4 minutes was the limit to human performa
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Roger Bannister is famous for being the first person to run a mile in under four minutes, achieving this feat on May 6, 1954, at Iffley Road track in Oxford. He finished the mile in 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds, with the help of pacemakers Chris Chataway and Chris Brasher. The event was highly anticipated, as the four-minute mile had been considered an impossible barrier to break. The mile record has since been lowered by 16.27 seconds. As of June 2022, the “four-minute barrier” has been broken by
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