The Bannister Community Mile was first held in Oxford in 2024 to mark 70 years since Sir Roger Bannister ran the distance in three minutes and 59.4 seconds at the city's Iffley Road track on 6 May ...

LONDON — Roger Bannister, who as a lanky medical student at Oxford in 1954 electrified the sports world and lifted postwar England’s spirits when he became the first athlete to ...

More than 70 years ago, Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes. And, as runners continued to obsess over the mark, several thousand more followed in his wake.

Nearly three-quarters of a century after Roger Bannister of Britain, in 1954, became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes, an achievement that many at the time thought unattainable ...