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four-minute mile

54 years ago today Roger Bannister runs the first mile under four minutes
Posted by foggy on 5/6/2008

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Original newsreel footage of Bannister's 3:59.4 at Iffley Road, Oxford, May 6 1954.
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Did you run a mile for Roger today? Anniversary of the first sub-four-minute mile
Posted by simon on 5/6/2008 on simon's blog

I was barely two years old when Roger Bannister ran the world's first three-minute mile: 3:59.4 on May 6, 1954, but I remember it as if I was there :)

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