May 6, 1954 , Britain's Roger Bannister hits the tape to break the four-minute mile in Oxford, England. Record-breaking British athlete Roger Bannister, the first man to run a mile in under four ...

For a long time, the idea of any human running a mile faster than 4 minutes was thought of as the impossible. But in the months after England’s Roger Bannister finally broke that record in 1954, ...

Dr. Roger Bannister climbed the Mt. Everest of track-and-field in 1954. The Briton ran the first sub-four-minute mile, once believed likely to be fatal. He broke both the actual and psychological ...

Faith Kipyegon’s attempt to become the first woman in history to run a sub-4-minute mile came up just short. The three-time Olympic gold medalist ran a personal-best time of 4:06.42 in a special event ...