Mile News Tagged Roger Bannister


Mile Moment of the Month: The Mile of the Century – Bannister vs. Landy 1954

August 07, 2014

First time two men go sub-4 minutes in the same Mile race

By Bring Back the Mile

Sixty years ago, on Saturday, August 7, at the 1954 British Empire & Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada, the world’s two best Milers, England’s Roger Bannister, the first man to run a sub-4 minute Mile, and...

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Runners inspired by Miracle Mile

August 06, 2014

“We read books on Landy and Bannister and knew of the B.C. runners who’d (run the Mile in under 4 minutes) in the past. When the hype becomes that engrained in you, you want to be part of that.” - Graeme Wells

By Don Fennell, Richmond Review

It was thought to be impossible.

No human, they...

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‘Race of the century’ between Landy & Bannister still a miracle 60 years later

July 27, 2014

“I was going to run from the front, I was going to break the 4 minute Mile, and I was going to break my world record." - John Landy

By Kym Morgan, The Advertiser

The 1954 British Empire Games Mile race between Australia’s John Landy and England’s Roger Bannister in Vancouver, Canada, was so...

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My favorite photograph: Runner and neurosurgeon Sir Roger Bannister

July 15, 2014

Sir Roger Bannister, 85, amazed the world when he broke the four-minute Mile. But could he stand the pace at his son’s sports day?

By Roz Lewis, The Daily and Sunday Express

"This is a picture of me running in the fathers’ race at my sons’ school sports day in 1965. I hadn’t known about this...

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Miracle Mile’s 60th anniversary to highlight Jerome Classic

June 05, 2014

Breaking 4 minutes "was the epitomy of my sports career.”

By Gary Kingston, Vancouver Sun

VANCOUVER - Sixty years after the Roger Bannister-John Landy Miracle Mile at the 1954 British Empire Games in Vancouver -- and long after the world went metric -- there is still a cachet attached to the...

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For Roger Bannister, the four-minute Mile was just the start

May 31, 2014

A review of Twin Tracks, by Roger Bannister. Bannister's two brilliant careers, medical and athletic, both show the power of mind over matter

Michael Beloff, The Spectator

The title of this reflective and readable memoir refers to the author’s lifetime interests in sport and medicine — tracks...

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Breaking the Four-Minute Mile

May 28, 2014

"When I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning."

BY Mark Schnurman, The Commercial Observer

I possess a childlike exuberance and take special pleasure when individuals achieve the unprecedented. Sixty years ago this month Roger Bannister ... Read More comments

Is it time to raise your ceiling?

May 27, 2014

Even if you reach your goal, you have to ask yourself this question: Did I reach my potential?

By Dave Griffin, Carroll County Times 

If you look-up the word “impossible,” you’ll find something similar to the following definition: Not possible; unable to be, exists or happen.

Once, many...

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Agony and ecstasy of the force within

May 18, 2014

Ulick O'Connor, who broke the Irish pole vault record in 1951, recalls the legendary coach behind Roger Bannister's historic sub-4 minute Mile

By Ulick O'Connor, The Independent

Sir Roger Bannister celebrates two major achievements this month. The first is the 60th anniversary of his being...

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The Roger Bannister Interview

May 16, 2014

Sir Roger Bannister, 85, on the day he made history - and why he'd rather be remembered for his neurology than his running

By Jane Graham, The Big Issue

At 16 I was focused on getting to Oxford. No member of my family had studied there. It was quite difficult to get into Oxford then. I was...

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