Roger Bannister, knight of the realm, distinguished neurologist and medical researcher, college president, noted author, sometime TV commentator and, oh yes, the first man to run the mile in less ...

Roger Bannister, the first person to run a mile in under four minutes, has died at age 88. (Video: Victoria Walker, Elyse Samuels/The Washington Post) ...

LONDON --Roger Bannister, the first runner to break the 4-minute barrier in the mile, has died. He was 88. Bannister's family said in a statement that he died peacefully on Saturday in Oxford, the ...

Roger Bannister was the first athlete to run a mile in under four minutes. Roger Bannister, the first runner to break the 4-minute barrier in the mile, has died. He was 88.

Roger Gilbert Bannister was born in Harrow, now a borough of London, on March 23, 1929, and he spent part of his childhood in Bath. His father was a government auditor.

Back on 6 May 1954, Roger Bannister ran a mile round the University of Oxford athletics track in three minutes 59.4 seconds. Seventy years to the day on from that seismic moment, hundreds of us ...

Roger Gilbert Bannister was born in 1929, with one older sister, in the London suburb of Harrow, Middlesex. Contrary to some misinformed versions, he did not come from privilege.

Bannister was undaunted. ''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 3:59,'' he said. ''I knew enough medicine and physiology to know ...

In this May 6, 1954 file photo, Britain's Roger Bannister hits the tape to break the four-minute mile in Oxford, England. A statement released Sunday March 4, 2018, on behalf of Bannister's family ...

Roger Bannister died peacefully in Oxford on Saturday at the age of 88. He made history on May 6, 1954, when he became the first runner to break the 4-minute barrier in the mile — a feat of ...

In this photo dated Feb. 26, 2014, former British athlete Roger Bannister poses for a picture during the launch of the Westminster Mile run to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Bannister’s ...