By Frank Litsky and William McDonald John Landy, a scholarly Australian who became the second man, after Roger Bannister of England, to run the mile in under four minutes, and who later dueled ...

John Landy, an Australian runner who dueled with Roger Bannister to be the first person to run a four-minute mile, has died. He was 91. Landy’s family on Saturday said the former athlete ...

No time for that, John. Bannister is still with you. Go harder! Landy goes harder still. John Landy leads Roger Bannister at the halfway mark during the one-mile race at the 1954 Empire Games in ...

Reporting from LONDON — Roger Bannister, knight of the realm ... “It was clear that [Australian] John Landy or [American] Wes Santee would break it soon if I didn’t get there first.” ...

John Landy, the widely admired Australian runner ... Wes Santee in Kansas in the United States; and Roger Bannister in Oxford, England. Though Bannister famously got there first, on May 6, 1954 ...

Propelled by an ever-lengthening stride and extraordinary willpower, lanky British medical student Roger Bannister became ... Wes Santee and Australian John Landy also had made the four-minute ...

LONDON (AP) — Roger Bannister, the first runner to break ... but in 1954 Bannister, Australian rival John Landy and others were threatening to break it. “As it became clear that somebody ...

OXFORD, England (AP) - Sixty years later, Roger Bannister is busy reliving the ... and he considers his victory over Australian rival John Landy a few months later as his greatest running exploit.

John Landy, an Australian runner who dueled with Roger Bannister to be the first person to run a four-minute mile, has died. He was 91. Landy's family on Saturday said the former athlete ...

LONDON >> Roger Bannister, the first runner to break the ... but in 1954 Bannister, Australian rival John Landy and others were threatening to break it. “As it became clear that somebody was ...

John Landy, an Australian runner who dueled with Roger Bannister to be the first person to run a four-minute mile, has died. He was 91. Landy’s family on Saturday said the former athlete ...