An event celebrating Sir Roger Bannister's four-minute mile in Oxford will return following the success of last year's ...

A community race to celebrate the first four-minute mile will become an annual event, its organisers have announced. The ...

Olympic legend Steve Ovett claims Sir Roger Bannister's sub-four minute mile legacy will be complete after first woman breaks barrier ...

The four-minute mile has long been a middle-distance running benchmark with Britain's Sir Roger Bannister, aged 25, the first to beat that mark in 1954. Norway's two-time Olympic champion Jakob ...

Scientists have calculated how a woman could be the first to run a mile in under four minutes, emulating Roger Bannister who accomplished the feat more than 70 years ago. Bannister became the first ...

Sir Roger Bannister managed the feat just 0.6 seconds shy of four minutes A community race to celebrate the first four-minute mile will become an annual event, its organisers have announced.

The Bannister Community Mile was first held last year to mark 70 years since Sir Roger Bannister ran the distance in three minutes and 59.4 seconds. More than 1,500 runners of all ages and ...