The Four Minute Mile

In the sport of athletics, the four-minute mile is the act of completing the mile run (1,760 yards, or 1,609.344 metres) in less than four minutes. It was first achieved in 1954 by Roger Bannister in 3:59.4.^[1] The "four-minute barrier" has since been broken by many male athletes, and is now the standard of all male professional middle distance runners. In the last 50 years the mile record has been lowered by almost 17 seconds.

Before Roger Bannister did this, it was a common belief across the world that a mile could not be run in under four minutes. Indeed some even believed it was harmful to your health to do so.

Interestingly, in the year that Roger broke this record, and with it the belief, many more athletes did the same.



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