FAMOUS ATHLETES 


Roger Bannister is a ingles farmer athlete known for running the first mile in less than 4 minutes. He was born in Harrow, England in 1929. His most important feat was win the mile in an incroyable way.
The athletics track was the ash and the conditions were really different than nowadays.
Running a mile in under four minutes was one of athletics' greatest milestones.
The first man to break the almost mythical barrier was him, with a time of 3 minutes 59.4 seconds at Iffley Road Track, Oxford, on 6 May 1954.
The 25-year-old medical student's achievement has not diminished with time - not least because he was the last amateur athlete to break such a significant record.
Bannister - now Sir Roger - retired from athletics shortly after his Iffley Road success to pursue a career in medicine.
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