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	Four-minute mile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The four minute mile, in athletics, is the running of a mile (1609 metres) in under four minutes.
		In the 1940s running a four minute mile was thought to be the physical limit of the human body.
		Authorities of sports medicine have long speculated that a three minute mile is beyond the capacity of human beings, but that it may be possible with advances in genetic engineering.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Four_minute_mile (270 words)

	Roger Bannister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister KBE (born March 23, 1929) is a former British athlete best known as the first man to run the mile in less than four minutes.
		His record-setting mile run was called the "Miracle Mile" because some doubted a four-minute-mile was possible.
		As a medical student at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, Roger Bannister chose to use his lunch hour for a 10 minute jog to Paddington track, where he ran 10 X 400 m in about 60 s with two minutes rest, then he ran back to work.
	www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Roger_Bannister (416 words)

	The World Today - Bannister's 4 minute mile record revisited
		The sub-four minute mile was an achievement once thought to be physically impossible, but new research shows the first four-minute mile might have been run almost 250 years ago.
		PETER RADFORD: Well, the first four minute mile, we think, was 1770 was by a man called James Parrot (phonetic), who did it on the streets of London on a course which is still there.
		He ran reputedly four minutes exactly, and in those days they were already measuring races to the accuracy of a second, so that was that.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2004/s1102711.htm (734 words)

	Miracle mile \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Roger Bannister was the first to break 4 minutes in the mile, running 3:59.4 in 1954.
		Minutes before his scheduled event, the wind died, and after twice saying he wouldn't race, Bannister stepped to the starting line.
		Billed as the "Mile of the Century," Bannister passed Landy on the final turn and won by 5 yards in 3:58.8.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040506/news_1s6banncopy.html (1384 words)

	Sports: Bannister stuns world with 4-minute mile
		For years, the 4-minute mile was considered not merely unreachable but, according to physiologists of the time, dangerous to the health of any athlete who attempted to reach it.
		Bannister and Landy raced later in the year in the "Mile of the Century" at Vancouver, a runoff to decide who was the faster miler.
		Among the goals achieved: seven straight half miles at an average 2:03; 10 straight quarter miles at an average 58.9; three-quarters of a mile in 2:59.8, and a half mile in 1:54.
	www.sptimes.com /News/121799/Sports/Bannister_stuns_world.shtml (631 words)

	Gunder Hagg; last holder of 4-minute-plus mile record; 85 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Gunder Hagg, the Swedish runner who held the world record for the mile from 1945 until 1954, when Roger Bannister ran the first sub-4-minute mile, died Nov. 27 at a nursing home in Malmo, Sweden.
		In May 1954, Bannister, then an English medical student, ran the mile in 3:59.4, an event so historic that U.S. television and radio stations interrupted live coverage of the Army-McCarthy congressional hearings to report the news.
		The current mile record, 3:43.13, was set in 1999 by Hicham el-Guerrouj of Morocco.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041215/news_1m15hagg.html (638 words)

	Track & Field News: All Time Prefontaine Classic Sub 4 Minute Mile List
		The Pre Classic Mile continues to be arguably the greatest race in the United States.
		What follows is the updated All-Time Sub 4 Minute list for the Pre Classic after the 2004 meet Other interesting notes and statistics are presented at the end of the list.
		In 1975, the inaugural race, 1979 and 1989, a sub 4 minute mile was not achieved.
	www.trackandfieldnews.com /tfn/displayArticle.jsp?id=282 (206 words)

	It Seems Like Yesterday - The Atomic Age
		The four-minute mile was considered a golden goal in track and field, one which required perfection to attain.
		It was only a few minutes before the race that this decision was reached and Bannister and Chris Chataway, his colleague with whom he trained in secret sessions all winter, passed word around to the officials that Roger would try for "a really fast mile."
		They paced him to a 57.7 first quarter and a 60.6 second quarter and when his half time of 1:53:3 was announced the corporals guard of less than 1,000 spectators on hand came alive with excitement.
	www.itseemslikeyesterday.com /Atomic/article_mile.asp (1040 words)

	CNN/SI - Athletics - Kansas runners dominated eras in mile run - Saturday December 11, 1999 02:16 PM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thirty-four years later, Ryun's mark is still the only sub-4 minute mile ever run in a high school track meet.
		Ryun's world and American records have been eclipsed, but he remains one of only three high school runners who broke 4 minutes -- the last one was Marty Liquori in 1967 -- and the only one ever to do so in high-school competition.
		Cunningham eventually regained the use of his legs, and as a senior went on to set the U.S. high school mile record at 4:31.4, broke that with a 4:28.4 in the state meet, and then ran 4:24.7 at a national high school meet in Chicago.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /athletics/news/1999/12/11/kansas_greats_ap (1162 words)

	Miracle time / Tracking the intense three-way rivalry to break the 4-minute mile
		As a boy, he routinely rode his bike 20 miles into the bush to chase butterflies, and he distinguished himself early as a competitive runner.
		On May 6, 1954, Bannister finally ran a mile six-tenths of a second faster than four minutes, less than a week before Santee ran 4:01.3 in America and Landy ran 4:01.6 in Finland.
		And the perfect mile itself, when both Bannister and Landy broke the four-minute mile in the same race, will make for wonderful cinema when the same film makers who made the movie of "Seabiscuit" make the film of "The Perfect Mile," whose rights they have purchased.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/04/18/RVGSL62R4F1.DTL (848 words)

	DyeStat HS Track & Field
		The last sub-4:00 mile by a high school runner took place in 1967 (Marty Liquouri 3:59.8).
		But that is a running start, it is 9 yards short of a mile, and he finished second.
		It was the fastest high school mile since Liquouri and the 8th fastest ever (4th fastest individual).
	www.dyestat.com /rivals/8095974.html (488 words)

	4 minute mile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This was the case with the 4 minute mile.
		In early 1954, Bannister surprised the world when he ran the mile in 3 min 59.4 sec, setting a new world record, and breaking the four minute barrier for the first time.
		Landy, who has since written a book called “The Four Minute Mile”, realised that great achievement means believing in your abilities, and not listening to the pessimism of others.
	www.users.bigpond.com /coman1/4minmile.htm (293 words)

	Page 2 - 50th anniversary of the sub 4 minute mile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Races: Feb 26: Mile in 5:06 Feb 28: 4 Mile in 23:19
		mile and the 40 min 10 K and they are close.
		The mile time is a poor predictor of 10k times.
	www.cyclingforums.com /t-119641-15-2.html (2510 words)

	NPR : 'The Perfect Mile'
		Roger Bannister, left, breaks the tape in the one-mile final at the Empire Games in Vancouver, Aug. 7, 1954, trailed by John Landy, holder of the record for the mile.
		It was the first time two men had run a mile in less than four minutes in the same race.
		The four-minute mile is no longer such a mythic barrier.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1870453 (785 words)

	Miracle Mile Lithograph
		Bannister was the first man to break the 4 minute mile and Landy was the current record holder.
		Landy's second place finish of 3:59.6 marked the first time the 4 minute mile had been broken by two runners in the same race.
		This spectacular lithograph, produced on August 7th, 1994, the 40th Anniversary of the Miracle Mile, vividly captures the critical moment of the race.
	www.runningplanet.com /articles/article_detail.asp?article_id=741 (323 words)

	USATODAY.com - Webb weaving mile magic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He had hoped to break 4 minutes last outdoor season, during his junior year, but he hurt his hip, and Raczko thought it wiser to pull back and not risk further injury.
		I mean, you can go 4 minutes 2 miles in a row now — the record for the 2-mile is 7:58.
		Similarly, when Ryun became the first prep runner to break 4 minutes in 1964, he was eighth in an elite invitational in San Diego.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/preps/stories/2001-03-09-webb.htm (1378 words)

	The Perfect Mile
		Before his focused pursuit of the 4-minute mile, many of his runs in the country–side were long steady warm-ups to reach five or so minutes of running at a high level of perceived exertion.
		Once the entire focus became the 4-minute mile, Bannister’s workouts almost exclusively were interval workouts on the track.
		It was the perfect race in the perfect mile event in the Empire Games in Vancouver, with Bannister’s super kick at the end just beating John Landy.
	www.cbass.com /PerfectMile.htm (1098 words)

	State of Illinois - Pat Quinn, Lt. Governor - Sub 4-Minute Milers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister, a medical student and amateur athlete accomplished what many once believed was impossible; he ran a mile in under four minutes.
		On behalf of the people of Illinois, I salute the determination of Roger Bannister, and all the runners from Illinois that have smashed the 4-minute mile barrier.
		You don’t need to run a 4-minute mile to enjoy the benefits of running and the joy of track and field.
	www.4minutemile.il.gov (214 words)

	DyeStatCal - internet home of California track
		Kiptoo, who clocked a 3:51.55 for 1500m at high altitude in late May (a converted high 4:01 mile at sea level under the older Track and Field News conversion ratios), began shearing away the deficit along the final 300 meters, with Coach Eddy Hellebuyck barking out commands during the final moments.
		Koskei was able to withstand Rupp's final surge to eventually wheel home for the victory in a low 4:02 (an exact time for Koskei still eludes us), with Kiptoo closing strongly to snare Rupp in the last 15 meters.
		The miling performance means eight preps have dipped under 4:03.50 from the 10-year stint 1995 to 2004, further distancing itself from the previous best 10-year block of five sub-4:03.50 clockings from 1965 to 1974.
	www.dyestatcal.com /news/tr2004/July/08PortlandPrepMile/Preview.htm (1544 words)

	4 MINUTES
		At three quarters of a mile the effort was still barely perceptible; the time was 3 min 0.7 sec., and by now the crowd was roaring.
		From: "The Four Minute Mile" by Roger Bannister, Lyons and Burford, 1955, pgs.
		From high school kids too young to remember Coghlan's 3:49 to the over-40 coaches who had come to pay homage (and just possibly witness 4 minutes of track history), you could feel the electricity in the air, and the fans increased the voltage many times with their shouting and clapping.
	faculty.rmwc.edu /tmichalik/4min.htm (1429 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Four-Minute Mile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Forty-some years after the barrier was broken it's difficult to imagine how daunting a challenge the four-minute mile once was, but for a generation of world-class runners it represented the impossible dream.
		Roger Bannister sets about telling the story of his historic record 4 minute mile but in the process he reveals that there is more to life than just running.
		This is a very interesting bk but maybe he should talk more about the running (after all it is the 4 min mile) and introduce his characters before he starts to talk about them.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/155821027X?v=glance (803 words)

	USA WEEKEND Magazine
		The running world is abuzz over Alan Webb, the first high-schooler in 34 years to break the 4-minute mile.
		He doesn't think about that incredible race in January when he became the first U.S. high-schooler in 34 years to break the 4-minute mile.
		Few physical activities are as excruciating as running a mile at a near-sprint.
	www.usaweekend.com /01_issues/010513/010513webb_runner.html (768 words)

	RGJ.com - Zimbabwe’s Hanneck breaks 4-minute mile
		Breaking the four-minute mile is history for Nevada, but for Phillimon Hanneck, anything less is slow.
		Hanneck, a native of Zimbabwe who has clocked in under four minutes in every mile he’s raced since 1991, eased across the Virginia Street finish line of the Cal-Neva Mile in 3-minutes, 55.1 seconds, making Silver State history.
		It was all he thought about for five years, from the age of 14 until he broke through at the age of 19.
	www.rgj.com /news/stories/sports/961390782.php (606 words)

	Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service): The 4-minute mile: 50 years later.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fifty years after Britain's Roger Bannister first accomplished the feat, the phrase "four-minute mile" recalls long-ago taken-for-granted landmarks such as the jet engine, fl-and-white television and the polio vaccine.
		When Bannister ran 3 minutes 59.4 seconds on May 6, 1954, at the Iffley Road track in Oxford, England, it was front-page news around the world.
		The mile run, long considered track and field's most popular...
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:118460672&refid=ink_tptd_np (180 words)

	Exponential Fit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the marquee and most followed events in track is the running of the mile.
		The following is a plot of world record times for the mile.
		In the late 1940s and early 1950s, a hot topic in track and field was when someone would be the first person to run a sub (below) 4 minute mile.
	www.mste.uiuc.edu /malcz/ExpFit/INTRO.html (118 words)

	Michigan's Willis delivers sub 4-minute mile ::
		It was Willis's second race of the season and his second NCAA automatic mark -- the first coming two weeks ago in the 3000-meter run at the Meyo Invitational.
		His time converts to 3:57.27 on a banked track, giving him the fourth-fastest mile time in the nation this year.
		"But nobody has run a sub-4 mile in over twenty years, so I thought it would be a great opportunity to do something for the local community and give them something to get excited about.
	www.cstv.com /sports/c-xc/uwire/022205aaa.html (624 words)

	iLife - Programs to help you live with passion!
		By 1902 a record of 4 minutes and 16 seconds was set by the Englishman Joe Binks, an amateur runner who in his spare time worked as a journalist and writer.
		And again in 1923 the world inched ever closer to the elusive four minute record thanks to Paavo Nurmi, the 'Phantom Finn', who won nine Olympic gold medals and set so many world records that statisticians are still arguing over the total.
		Finally, in 1945, when the Swede Gunder 'the Wonder' Haegg ran the mile in 4 '01.4 the world knew at last that it was on the brink of conquering the Everest of all sports.
	ilifestudio.com /product_info.php/products_id/177?... (334 words)

	IDS: Jefferson hits 4-minute mile at Indiana Invitational (Sports, 02/09/2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Perhaps track and field's most hallowed barrier -- the four-minute mile -- is something every runner dreams of eclipsing.
		Each year, IU distance coach Robert Chapman sets up an elite heat of the mile, with runners included specifically to set a hot pace and a gathering of IU and neighboring distance talent.
		Saturday's focus shifted to the sprints, where freshman phenom David Neville provided the thrills, posting two NCAA provisional qualifiers in the 200 meter (21.44) and 400 meter (47.34).
	www.idsnews.com /story.php?id=21212 (408 words)

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