Roger Bannister
23 March 1929 – 3 March 2018
Roger Bannister was a British middle-distance runner and neurologist who became the first person to run a mile in under four minutes, at the Iffley Road track in Oxford on 6 May 1954. He retired from athletics later that year to concentrate on medicine, practised as a consultant neurologist, and served as Master of Pembroke College, Oxford from 1985 to 1993.
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Life events
Ran for the university while training as a doctor, later continuing his clinical studies at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe result prompted him to set himself the target of the four-minute mile.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgStopped racing at the end of the 1954 season, after winning the 1500 metres at the European Championships in Bern.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRecorded 3 minutes 59.4 seconds at the Iffley Road track in Oxford, paced by Chris Brasher and Chris Chataway.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWon the mile at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in a race in which both men finished under four minutes.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgMarried the Swedish-born artist; the couple had four children.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDied at the age of 88, having lived with Parkinson's disease in his final years.
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