Roger Bannister, Chris Brasher, and Chris Chataway. Brasher and Chataway had trained with Bannister to aide him in pacing and pushing him to the illusive 4:00 barrier. Bannister did it in 3:59.4 on the evening of May 6, 1954.
The first 4 minute mile was run by Roger Banister.
The average time for a mile is about 8 minutes, for runners its 6 minutes, so a sub six minute mile is good for a runner and a sub seven for nonrunners.
Nobody has run a sub-minute mile. Nobody is anywhere near that!
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It was first achieved in 1954 by Roger Bannister in 3'59.4". The 'four minute barrier' has since been broken by many male athletes, and is now the standard of all professional middle distance runners. In the last 50 years the mile record has been lowered by almost 17 seconds.
The two runners that paced Roger Bannister in the race were Chris Brasher and Chris Chataway. Click on the 'Video of the First Sub Four Minute Mile' link on this page to see a tape of that historic race.
It takes less time to walk a mile!
Jim Ryun. only 4 high schoolers have ever broken the 4-minute mile.
Many runners have now run one mile under four minutes. The first to accomplish the feat was Roger Bannister in 1954, with a time of 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds. Since this time, the record has been broken many times. This link has the history of when the fastest mile time was broken: http://www.infoplease.com/ipsa/A0112924.html
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