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Roger Bannister and John Landy at Iffley Road on the 50th anniversary of the four-minute mile 6 May 2004. After his relative failure at the 1952 Olympics, Bannister spent two months deciding whether to give up running. He set himself on a new goal: to be the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. [12]
New Zealand's John Walker, who with a 3:49.4 performance in August 1975 became the first man to run the mile under 3:50, ran 135 sub-four-minute miles during his career (during which he was the first person to run over 100 sub-four-minute miles), and American Steve Scott has run the most sub-four-minute miles, with 136.
Drew wants to win a track meet and break the four-minute mile and get a scholarship so he can go there too. After a while of training, Drew discovers that Coleman is training him for the mile whereas he was hoping to run in the 400 meter event. In a deal, Drew races against Eric in the 400, however loses and decides to enter in for the mile.
Before Bannister became the first person to ever break the barrier, running a mile in under four minutes was thought to be near impossible. Once he did it, more people joined the club.
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Alan Webb, the high school record holder. This is a list of American high school students who have run a four-minute mile since the feat was first accomplished in 1964.. The first person to run the mile (1,760 yards, or 1,609.344 metres) in under four minutes was Roger Bannister in 1954, in a time of 3:59.4. [1]
James Tully Beatty (born October 28, 1934, in New York, New York) is a former American track and field athlete and North Carolina politician. He is best remembered as the first person to break the four-minute mile barrier on an indoor track, when he ran 3:58.9 on February 10, 1962, at the Los Angeles Invitational in the Los Angeles Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California.
On the women's side, the first sub-5:00 mile was achieved by the UK's Diane Leather 23 days after Bannister's first sub-4:00 mile. However, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) did not recognize women's records for the distance until 1967, when Anne Smith of the UK ran 4:37.0.