The study, published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, included Britain’s Sir Roger Bannister who was the first to achieve the landmark feat. It marks the 70th anniversary of ...

Oxford City Council wanted to rename the ward after Sir Roger Bannister A proposal to rename part of Oxford in memory of the late athlete Sir Roger Bannister has been rejected. Oxford City Council ...

Ever since Sir Roger Bannister ran the first mile under four minutes back in 1954, it's become the ultimate athletics record. Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj holds the current record at 3:43.13. In the ...

Maris won that contest, as Bannister had won his against Landy. Like Mantle, Landy had won other honors and would win more, but track has never had much mass appeal, and so Roger Bannister is a ...

Revd Bannister-Parker - daughter of athlete Sir Roger Bannister - was made the first woman to lead the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in High Street last January. She attended her first ...

The commemorative coins mark events including Sir Roger Bannister running the first sub four-minute mile and the 250th anniversary of the founding of Kew Gardens in London. The founding of the ...