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Roger Bannister Wins Four Minute Mile Record
The article recalls Roger Bannister becoming the first person to run a mile in under four minutes on May 6, 1954 at Oxford with a time of 3 minutes 59.4 seconds and a final 58.9 second lap, and notes his later 0.8 second improvement in Vancouver. It covers his birth on March 23, 1929 in England, Oxford medical studies, Olympic team captaincy, shift to medicine after 1954, honors including Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and his autobiography The Four Minute Mile.
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Roger Bannister
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Oxford
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