Roger Bannister, The First Man To Run A Sub-4:00 Mile, Is Dead
by Dennis Young from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#3HAD6)
Roger Bannister, who in 1954 became the first person to run a mile in under four minutes-beating John Landy to it by less than two months-died last night in Oxford, England, the same city where he ran 3:59.4 64 years ago. He was 88 years old.