![]() After Bern, Roger Bannister announced his retirement from athletics. However, for athletes 1954 was another world – if not universe and these options were simply unthought-of at that point. If it was today, Roger Bannister would have been made for life with sponsorship deals and so on. Roger Bannister went on to gain a European Championship record for the metic mile (the 1500m) at Bern on 29 August – his time there was 3:43:8. Bannister won this epic clash of the titans, coming in at 3:58:8 with Landy less than a second behind him. Roger Bannister died on March 3, over 63 years after becoming the first man to officially run a mile in under four minutes. This time it was his rival, the Australian John Landy who ran 3:57:9 in Finland.īannister and Landy were to finally compete against each other, post record, on 7 August 1954 at the Commonwealth Games in Canada. Of course, this spurred on athletes all over the globe and it was less than two months later (46 days to be precise) that Bannister’s own record was broken. Bannister’s time was 3:59.04 and it was indeed a new World Record. As soon as the stadium heard the magic word – 3 – it erupted with a deafening roar of triumph. The greatest lesson we can learn from the achievement of Roger Bannister, who broke the 4-minute mile in 1954 and who died at 88 yesterday, arises from someone else breaking his record only seven. There was no point at the stage in continuing. ![]() Bannister, Amateur Athletic Association and formerly of Exeter and Merton Colleges, Oxford, with a time which is a new meeting and track record, and which – subject to ratification – will be a new English Native, British National, All-Comers, European, British Empire and World Record. No one can say, "You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that." The human spirit is indomitable.“Ladies and gentlemen, here is the result of event 9, the one mile: 1st, No. 'The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. ![]() 'We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves,' Bannister said. On the 66th anniversary of his achievement, Bannister's 3:59.4 mile still resonates and remains a landmark achievement for runners. He also held influential posts at various times as Chairman of Britain’s Sports Council, President of the International Council for Sport and Recreation, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, and Director of the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London. man to run a mile in under four minutes with a time of 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds. Zola Budd, who ran in her bare feet, still holds the British record, set in 1985, of 4:17.57.īannister spent the rest of his life politely denying that his sub-four was so significant, and assiduously created a career that he valued more highly, in medicine and neurological research. Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister was one of the most renown middle distance. ![]() At the time of writing, no woman has ever run a sub-four-minute mile The Netherlands' Sifan Hassan has the women's record of 4:12.33. Today, Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj is the current men's mile record holder with a time of 3:43.13. His record lasted just 46 days, before Australian runner John Landy beat it by more than a second. Bannister’s barrier-breaking race seemed at the time to symbolise the world’s emergence from two destructive wars into a new dawn of heroic aspiration, and now stands historically with the Wright Brothers, the conquest of Everest and the first man on the moon.
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