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 ...

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 ...

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Roger Bannister remembers those fabled four minutes as if they were yesterday. Like a proud patriarch regaling wide-eyed children, the 82-year-old avidly recounts that magical four-lap race on a ...

Though nobody appreciated it at the time, on December 30 1954 a television institution was born. At the Savoy Hotel in London ...

LONDON (AP) – 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, ...

LONDON -- Roger Bannister, who as a lanky medical student at Oxford in 1954 electrified the sports world and lifted postwar England's spirits when he became the first athlete to run a mile in under 4 ...

LONDON --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 ...

LONDON — 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. A ...