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	Roger Bannister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bannister was educated at the City of Bath Boys' Grammar School, University College School, London, Exeter College and Merton College, Oxford, and at St.
		Bannister and Landy have both pointed out that the crucial moment of the race was at the moment in which Bannister decided to try and pass Landy, Landy looked over his left shoulder to gauge Bannister's position, and Bannister burst past Landy on the right, never relinquishing the lead.
		Bannister went on that season to win the "metric mile", the 1500 m, at the European Championships in Berne on 29 August, with a championship record in a time of 3 min 43.8 s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roger_Bannister (1057 words)

	Roger Bannister - MSN Encarta
		Roger Bannister, born in 1929, British physician and the first athlete in history to run a mile in less than 4 min.
		Bannister defeated Landy in a mile race held at Vancouver, Canada, in August 1954.
		Bannister retired from athletic competition in December 1954 to practice medicine.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562936/Bannister_Sir_Roger.html (167 words)

	Roger Bannister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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.
		Bannister was educated at the, University College School, London, Exeter College and Merton College, Oxford, and at, London.
		A medical student at the time, Bannister retired from athletics in 1954 to pursue a career in neurology.
	www.birmingham.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Roger_Bannister (416 words)

	Roger Bannister biography
		Roger Bannister was born in Harrow, Middlesex, in 1929.
		Bannister believed it was possible, and used his knowledge as a physician to give him as much help as possible.
		When Brasher began to tire, Bannister gave the signal for Chataway to take over, and at the bell it was he who led in a time of just over three minutes.
	nh.essortment.com /rogerbannister_rzqk.htm (493 words)

	Roger Bannister
		Bannister began following the program while keeping his workouts to half an hour, three to four days a week.
		Bannister's constant analysis of his performance was crucial.
		Bannister felt he was completely prepared to attempt to break the four-minute mile on May 6, 1954, at Iffley Road, Oxford.
	www.nvtrackstats.com /roger_bannister.htm (997 words)

	Sports: Bannister stuns world with 4-minute mile
		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.
		Bannister "bided his time until about 300 yards from the tape," the AP reported, "when he urged himself to a supreme effort.
		Bannister, his energy restored, ran to Brasher and Chataway and embraced them, then the trio trotted in a victory lap.
	www.sptimes.com /News/121799/Sports/Bannister_stuns_world.shtml (631 words)

	ipedia.com: Roger Bannister Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Roger Gilbert Bannister is a former British athlete best known as the first man to run the mile in less than four minutes, and a distinguished neurologist.
		Roger Gilbert Bannister (born March 23, 1929) is a former British athlete best known as the first man to run the mile in less than four minutes, and a distinguished neurologist.
		Bannister was educated at the City of Bath Boys' Grammar School, University College School, London, Exeter College and Merton College, Oxford, and at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, London.
	www.ipedia.com /roger_bannister.html (329 words)

	Socialism Today - UNISON's historic election
		Roger Bannister, a Socialist Party member and the candidate of the Campaign for a Democratic and Fighting UNISON (CFDU), is winning wide support wherever he speaks at branch meetings or in the workplace.
		This does not mean that Roger Bannister would call for the overthrow of capitalism from Mabledon Place (the UNISON HQ) on every occasion that the union clashes with this or that employer.
		Whatever the outcome of the election itself, Roger Bannister's candidacy is a real step forward for the left in UNISON and for the development of a mass left opposition force that can be a model for other unions too.
	www.socialismtoday.org /44/unison.html (1340 words)

	Roger Bannister And The Four Minute Mile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Professor John Bale, Education, has written a book "Roger Bannister and the Four Minute Mile", to be published by Routledge, on April 30, 2004.
		On 6 May 1954 Roger Bannister became the first man to run the mile in under four minutes.
		Additionally, Sir Roger is revealed as an ambivalent athlete - highly achievement-oriented and scientific but also in love with the freedom of simply running in nature.
	www.keele.ac.uk /news/week/archive/2004/0416/0416-02.htm (184 words)

	Sir Roger Bannister Biography -- Academy of Achievement
		Roger Bannister was born in Harrow, Middlesex, England.
		Bannister resolved to redeem himself by breaking the world's record for the mile, the seemingly insurmountable four-minute barrier.
		Today, Sir Roger Bannister is Director of the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in London and a trustee-delegate of St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in Paddington.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/ban0bio-1 (791 words)

	Bodybuilding.com - Kevin Seaman - Welcome To The Winning Mind Set^TM Tip Of The Week - ...
		Roger Bannister was the first person in recorded history to break the 4 minute mile.
		Roger Bannister was a world-class runner, and the first person to break the four-minute mile barrier.
		Roger Bannister's beliefs enabled him to tap a potential in his body that was always there; these beliefs inspired and empowered him to achieve a feat greater than he or anyone else had ever before accomplished.
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	Amazon.com: The Four-Minute Mile: Books: Roger Bannister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Roger Bannister, the British middle-distance runner who finally achieved the epic quest in 1954, wrote this stunning memoir of his life as a runner a year later; intelligent, analytical, dramatic, and graceful, it remains a sporting classic.
		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.
		Bannister not only was the greatest runner of his time, he also was a incredibly thinking and balanced man. He was an amatuer because he understood running was only a means to a better life.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/155821027X?v=glance (979 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The First Four Minutes: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Bannister has written a substantial new introduction for this 50th anniversary edition of The First Four Minutes, reflecting on his experiences in 1954, his life since then and the evolution of mile running over the last five decades.
		For Bannister, the challenge of combining international athletics with his academic work as a medical student increased his enjoyment of sport rather than limiting the time he could dedicate to training; indeed he laments the increasingly mechanistic and life-consuming approach to running favoured by some of his competitors.
		Bannister was also known for the fact that he was self-coached and through the book he promotes mental self-sufficiency as an important part of the value of sport.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0750935308 (1022 words)

	Amazon.ca: Roger Bannister And The Four-minute Mile: Sports Myth and Sports History: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		On 6th May 1954, in what is regarded as one of the key moments in the history of modern sport, Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under four minutes.
		It is a testimonial to the legend of Roger Bannister but it also invites the reader to reconsider the very words often used to describe him - notably "hero" and "gentleman amateur." Informed by contemporary sports science, the text also questions the significance of the four-minute mile per se.
		The first rigorous historical study of Bannister's sporting life and the man behind the legend reveals an ambivalent athlete - highly achievement-orientated and scientific in his approach but also in love with the freedom of running sensuously in nature, in contrast to the constraints of modern sport.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/041534607X (387 words)

	Roger Bannister on the four-minute mile: First edition, SIGNED \|\| JAY DILLON Rare Books + Manuscripts LLC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Roger Bannister was the last hero in sport.
		And five hundred copies of a modern reprint were signed by Bannister and published at £25 ($__), or £12,500 ($__,___) altogether: These have already soared to £73.00 ($131.36) at auction.
		One of the stopwatches that Bannister mentions here on page 193 was sold in April 1998 for £8,855, or about $14,800 at the time: It now preserved in the Oxford University Athletics Club.
	members.aol.com /HOVERZACKS/Bannister1955sgd.htm (963 words)

	CBC Radio \| Ideas \| Features \| The Four-Minute Mile
		CBC Radio, as host broadcaster of the Vancouver Empire and Commonwealth Games, transmitted this live call of the "Miracle Mile"--in which both Roger Bannister and John Landy broke the four-minute barrier--around the world, on August 7, 1954.
		It was written quickly, in a matter of months, after the barrier was offically broken and before Bannister retired from competitive running to begin his career as a medical doctor.
		Bannister is at the centre of this narrative, but the real hero is Emil Zatopek, whose revolutionary training methods made most modern record possible.
	www.cbc.ca /ideas/features/four_minute (1147 words)

	Roger Bannister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister KBE[Click link for more facts about this topic] (born March 23, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Bannister was educated at the City of Bath Boys' Grammar School, EHandler: no quick summary.
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/roger_bannister.htm (1043 words)

	Sir Roger Bannister on Extended Visit to Boulder
		In 1954, 25-year-old Bannister was the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes.
		I wanted to express the feeling of that moment and Roger Bannister was the guy who did it." said Eino in his still broken Finnish accent.
		As part of the 50th anniversary celebration of this milestone, Eino was personally invited by Sir Roger Bannister his home in England to meet with him.
	www.boulderrunning.com /features/bannister-paradigm.php (534 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Sport \| Athletics \| Interview Sir Roger Bannister
		Bannister, however, reacts with charming scepticism when told that Radio Five recently announced the result of a poll acclaiming his run at Iffley Road in Oxford as sport's greatest-ever achievement.
		While the four-minute mark is, as even Bannister concedes, "irresistible", the 75-year-old is at his most intriguing when he considers the impact of the race on the rest of his life as a neurologist.
		Yet Bannister relishes the suggestion that he was actually at his peak as a runner three months later on August 7 1954, when he defeated John Landy, his formidable Australian rival, at the British Empire Games in Vancouver.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /athletics/story/0,10082,1203465,00.html (1810 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.
		Bannister dashed into the final turn, shocked that Landy was still driving so hard.
		Because Bannister had abandoned his even pace in the third lap, he was more tired at this point than he had expected to be.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1870453 (793 words)

	Sir Roger Bannister
		On 6 May 1954, Roger Bannister ran the first timed sub-four-minute mile in history.
		Bannister's story was told in the TV movies The Four Minute Mile (1988, with actor Richard Huw as Bannister) and Four Minutes (2005, with Jamie Machlachlan as Bannister)...
		Roger Bannister - Roger Bannister Born: Mar. 23, 1929 British runner first to run mile in less than 4 minutes (3:59.4...
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/rogerbannister.html (213 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 6 \| 1954: Bannister breaks four-minute mile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Roger Bannister, a 25-year-old British medical student, has become the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes.
		Bannister, once president of the Oxford club, was running for the Amateur Athletic Association against his old university during their annual match.
		At the end of 1954, Bannister retired from running to pursue his medical studies full-time and later became a consultant neurologist.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/6/newsid_2511000/2511575.stm (387 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 510 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Bannister's pacemakers were his friends, fellow Olympians, medalists and world class runners Christopher Brasher (3000 metre steeple chase) and Christopher Chataway (5000 metres).
		Bannister's roommate and friend at Exeter College, Oxford, Norris McWhirter (one of the brewery Guinnesses, who co-founded the Guinness Book of (World) Records in 1955 and died last year) was the announcer at the meet.
		For the record, Bannister ran the last quarter in 58.7 seconds and his mile time was 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds.
	www.thedailystar.net /2005/10/31/d510311502118.htm (1193 words)

	Cool Running :: Roger Bannister's Big Day Re-Created In Toronto Track Stadium
		TORONTO (CP) - More than 250 actors and extras clad in 1950s garb gathered at a Toronto stadium to re-create sporting history Tuesday for a movie depicting the life of English runner Roger Bannister and his quest to set a new record for the world's fastest mile.
		Cast members and extras in the made-for-TV movie, called Four Minutes, stood on the sidelines and cheered as actor Jamie MacLachlan, who plays Bannister, crossed the finish line in a dramatic conclusion to the re-enactment of Bannister's historic 1954 run.
		Mario Iozzo, a Toronto native hired to portray a runner in some of Bannister's early race scenes, said some aspects of filming are harder than others.
	coolrunning.com /cgi-bin/moxiebin/bm_tools.cgi?print=2658;s=3_8;site=1 (700 words)

	Oxford Blueprint: 13 May 2004: Sir Roger Bannister relives his record
		Sir Roger and a crowd of around 1,000 spectators witnessed new sporting achievements during the afternoon.
		Sir Roger rang the original bell used in the 1954 race to signal the final lap.
		A blue plaque to commemorate Sir Roger Bannister's achievement was unveiled at Iffley Road earlier this week.
	www.ox.ac.uk /blueprint/2003-04/1305/01.shtml (413 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Athletics \| Bannister relives mile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Sir Roger returned to Oxford University's Iffley Road sports ground, the scene of his 1954 triumph, for a restaging of the original meeting.
		Sir Roger used the original bell used in 1954 to signal the final lap.
		Sir Roger was a 25-year-old medical student when he recorded a time of 3:59.4 for the mile on May 6 1954.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/athletics/3688893.stm (362 words)

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