Roger Bannister, the first runner to break the 4-minute barrier in the mile, has died. He was 88. Bannister's family said in a statement that he died peacefully on Saturday in Oxford, the English city ...

May 1954, Iffley Road, Oxford. Roger Bannister had just run a sub-4 minute mile, the first in history. Those lucky enough to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 1,500 people participate in the community mile (Image: Supplied) A mile-long celebration of sport, youth, and community ...

The Bannister Miles held a record number of runners this year, with Laura Muir taking the win in the Millicent Fawcett Mile.

LONDON (AP) – It was a typical British afternoon in early May: wet, cool and blustery. Not exactly the ideal conditions for running four laps around a track faster than many thought humanly possible.

Back on 6 May 1954, Roger Bannister ran a mile round the University of Oxford athletics track in three minutes 59.4 seconds. Seventy years to the day on from that seismic moment, hundreds of us ...

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“It was as if Mount Everest had been relocated to Oxford – and we could watch it being climbed,” recalls the historian Peter Whitfield, who was only six in 1954 when, exactly a year after Edmund ...

The world record for the mile hovered just above 4 minutes for nine years, with challengers unable to break that coveted figure. England’s Roger Bannister, a 1952 Olympian who finished fourth in the 1 ...