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The Roger Bannister running track, also known as the Oxford University track, is a 400-metres athletics running track and stadium in Oxford, England. It was where Sir Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile on 6 May 1954, when it was known as the Iffley Road track. The track is owned and operated by the University of Oxford.
The road is the location for the Oxford University athletics venue, the Iffley Road Track, where Roger Bannister was the first person to run a mile in under four minutes, on 6 May 1954. The feat is commemorated by blue plaque on Iffley Road. The track is next door to Iffley Road rugby ground, home of Oxford University Rugby Football Club.
On Iffley Road in Oxford, England, sits a track stadium. Though ordinary, the venue’s magic lies in its mythology as the place where Roger Bannister became the first person to ever run the mile ...
Blue plaque at Oxford University's Iffley Road Track, recording the first sub-4-minute mile run by Roger Bannister on 6 May 1954. Bannister had begun his day at a hospital in London, where he sharpened his racing spikes and rubbed graphite on them so they would not pick up too much cinder ash.
Blue plaque recording the first sub-four-minute mile, run by Roger Bannister on 6 May 1954 at Oxford University's Iffley Road Track. A four-minute mile is the completion of a mile run (1.6 km) in four minutes or less. It translates to an average speed of 15 miles per hour (24 km/h). [1]
12 Oxford Road, Old Marston: 17 July 2010 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: 1910–1994 Crystallographer, Nobel Laureate 94 Woodstock Road: 5 May 2016 Iffley Road Track: 1954 The first sub-four-minute mile by Roger Bannister at Oxford University Sports Ground on 6 May 1954 Iffley Road: 12 May 2004 Cecil Jackson-Cole: 1901–1979
The historic four-minute mile event took place during a meet between British AAA and Oxford University at Iffley Road Track in Oxford and was watched by about 3,000 spectators. Bannister's time was 3 minutes 59.4 seconds and Hulatt recorded a time of 4 minutes and 16 seconds.
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