Interesting sports question.

[Leekbrookgull]

No Googling. Now this will go in the first two or three replies or ? So here we go. Who was the first person to run a Four Minute Mile ?

 

[AmexRuislip]

Roger Banister

 

[lawros left foot]

No Googling. Now this will go in the first two or three replies or ? So here we go. Who was the first person to run a Four Minute Mile ?

Four minute mile, or sub four minute mile?

 

[Frutos]

Not him, he was the first to run a SUB 4-minute mile.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Where's the interesting sports question?

 

[AmexRuislip]

Not him, he was the first to run a SUB 4-minute mile.

I stand corrected oh wise one

 

[Leekbrookgull]

A four minute mile. 4.00.

 

[Goldstone1976]

The Kiwi chap who took the mile record off Bannister about 3 weeks after Bannister ran his 3:59.4. John something?

 

[el punal]

The Kiwi chap who took the mile record off Bannister about 3 weeks after Bannister ran his 3:59.4. John something?

Landy - not sure about spelling.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Not Landy. It,s bang-on 4.00.00. Just one hundredth of a second quicker and it would be his name and not Roger Bannister that would be history.

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Not Landy. It,s bang-on 4.00.00. Just one hundredth of a second quicker and it would be his name and not Roger Bannister that would be history.

Roger Bannister is already history. I remeber him breaking the 4 minute barrier very well.

Who the guy is who hit the 4 mins dead on I have no idea. And John Landy seemed to me to win more than Bannister did but RB won the important one at the imprortant time. I'm still surprised he managed to get through the crown as he came up to the finish!

 

[Diablo]

Do people really find that an interesting sports question ?

How about who was the first person to jump 4ft 6" or who ran a marathon in 4hr 14 mins ?

 

[studio150]

Some villian looking to escape the long arm of the law on the streets of London in tne 18th or 19th century

 

[Goldstone1976]

Landy - not sure about spelling.

Yep, that's who I meant. Looks like I was wrong though...

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Do people really find that an interesting sports question ?

How about who was the first person to jump 4ft 6" or who ran a marathon in 4hr 14 mins ?

Fair enough.but at the time The Four Minute Mile was and some may well say considered to be "man,s" finest sporting hour (?) as for now i believe The Mile record is around 3.43 ? a fantastic achievement from 4.00.00

 

[Goldstone1976]

Not Landy. It,s bang-on 4.00.00. Just one hundredth of a second quicker and it would be his name and not Roger Bannister that would be history.

You sure that the time was recorded down to the hundredth? Bannister's time was only officially recorded to the tenth, so I thought that maybe the first person to run 4 dead might be a recent runner (say, Mo), but then you say that if they'd run 1/100 faster they'd have Bannister's record. I'm confused...

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Bannister was 3.59.4

 

[Leekbrookgull]

So yes at least least one Tenth of a second. However the First Man to Run One Mile at 4.00.00 is ?

 

[newhaven seagull 85]

Chris brasher?

 

[newhaven seagull 85]

Or Chris Chataway