In which city did Roger Bannister become the first man to break the four minute barrier for the mile?
Four-minute mile the sport of mile racing. A second film version (entitled "Four Minutes") was made in 2005, starring Jamie Maclachlan as Bannister. In June 2011 the watch used to time the original event was donated by Jeffrey Archer to a charity auction for Oxford University Athletics Club; it sold for £97,250. In July 2016 the BBC broadcast the documentary "Bannister: Everest on the Track, The Roger Bannister Story" with firsthand interviews from Bannister and various other figures on the first sub-4 minute mile. Four-minute mile In the sport of athletics, a four-minute mile means completing a mile run (1,760 yards, or
Roger Bannister portrayed by Jamie Maclachlan. "Bannister: Everest on the Track, The Roger Bannister Story" is a 2016 TV documentary about his childhood and youth in WWII and postwar Britain and the breaking of the 4 minute mile barrier, with interviews of participants and witnesses to the 1954 race, and later runners inspired by Bannister and his achievement, including Phil Knight who says that Roger Bannister inspired him to start Nike. In the 1988 television mini-series "The Four Minute Mile", about the rivalry between Bannister, John Landy and Wes Santee to be first to break the 4 minute mile mark, Bannister was