Bannister’s Australian rival John Landy was the better runner, with a more impressive ... but track has never had much mass appeal, and so Roger Bannister is a household name and John Landy ...
Roger Bannister was studying medicine at Oxford when he bacame the first man to run the mile in under 4 minutes.At the Iffley Road track in Oxford Roger Bannister became the first man to run 1 ...
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award (or SPOTY) was first held in 1954 when around 14,500 voters decided to crown Christopher Chataway over fellow runner Roger Bannister. Since then the ...
A study of the first 200 athletes to run a mile in under four minutes - including Britain's Sir Roger Bannister who was ...