Sir Roger Bannister, the first athlete to run a sub-four minute mile, has died aged 88 in Oxford, his family have said. A statement released on behalf of Sir Roger's family said: "Sir Roger Bannister, ...

LONDON — Roger Bannister, the first runner to break the 4-minute barrier in the mile, has died. He was 88. Bannister's family said in a statement that he died peacefully on Saturday in Oxford, the ...

LONDON -- Roger Bannister, who as a lanky medical student at Oxford in 1954 electrified the sports world and lifted postwar England's spirits when he became the first athlete to run a mile in under 4 ...

Reporting from LONDON — Roger Bannister, knight of the realm, distinguished neurologist and medical researcher, college president, noted author, sometime TV commentator and, oh yes, the first man to ...

It’s impossible to know for sure that no human had run the distance of a mile in less than four minutes before May 6, 1954, when Roger Bannister, a twenty-five-year-old medical student, completed four ...

“It was as if Mount Everest had been relocated to Oxford – and we could watch it being climbed,” recalls the historian Peter Whitfield, who was only six in 1954 when, exactly a year after Edmund ...

Roger Bannister, who has died at the age of 88, was the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. Sir Roger, who was knighted in 1975, had been suffering from Parkinson's disease since 2011. The ...

At their best, sports are about more than just winning games and diverting crowds. They test the limits of what the human body and spirit can achieve. A great athlete performing at the peak of their ...

Roger Bannister ran history’s first sub-four-minute mile on May 6, 1954, on the Iffley Road Track in Oxford, England. My own personal history began on the same day at Sisters of Charity Hospital in ...

At least three teachers have died from complications of Covid-19 in recent weeks, according to CNN reporting and local media reports. Bannister had taught at the Windsor Elementary School for five ...

A man died after falling from a height when a bannister collapsed at an apartment block in Lanzarote, a coroner's court has ...