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    Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister CH CBE FRCP (23 March 1929 – 3 March 2018) was an English neurologist and middle-distance athlete who ran the first sub-4-minute...
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    The Roger Bannister running track, also known as the Oxford University track, is a 400-metres athletics running track and stadium in Oxford, England....
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    first four-minute mile was achieved in 1954 by the English athlete Roger Bannister, at age 25, in 3:59.4. The mile record has since been lowered by 16...
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  • Roger Bannister of the United Kingdom and John Landy of Australia vied to be the first to break the fabled four-minute mile barrier. Roger Bannister did...
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    banker (group managing director at HSBC Group plc). Bannister is the eldest son of Sir Roger Bannister, an eminent neurologist and middle-distance athlete...
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  • Roger Bart (born September 29, 1962) is an American actor and singer. He won a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for his performance as Snoopy in the...
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  • Reggie Bannister (born 1945), American actor and musician Richard Bannister Hughes (1810-1875), British businessman, active in Uruguay Roger Bannister (1929–2018)...
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  • Stirling appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 4's Midweek with Libby Purves, Roger Bannister and Kevin Warwick. Stirling can speak Russian and is experienced in...
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    international meet at Turku, Finland, Landy became the second man, after Roger Bannister, to achieve a sub-4-minute mile. He achieved a world record time of...
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    South Africa Roger Bannister (1929–2018), British athlete, first man to run the four-minute mile Roger "Syd" Barrett, founder of Pink Floyd Roger Bart, American...
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  • befriends writer and recovering alcoholic Roberta "Bobbie" Markowitz and Roger Bannister, a flamboyant gay architect who has moved to town with his long-time...
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    mile (1,760 yards, or 1,609.344 metres) in under four minutes was Roger Bannister in 1954, in a time of 3:59.4. This barrier would not be broken by a...
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    Pembroke College in 1998. While at Pembroke, Mangi was awarded the Roger Bannister Scholarship for Academics and Sports and Domus scholarships. He received...
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    multiple system atrophy", co-authored with Clare Fowler, John Gosling and Roger Bannister, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, Vol. 49, (1986)...
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    that year most embodies the spirit of sportsmanship and achievement." Roger Bannister won the first-ever Sportsman of the Year award thanks to his record-breaking...
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  • 65th anniversary of the "historic" four-minute mile by British runner Roger Bannister. The attempt was to take place in the Prater, a park in Vienna, Austria...
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    BBC as a sports commentator. On 6 May 1954, he kept the time when Roger Bannister ran the first sub four-minute mile. After the race, he began his announcement:...
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    Raymond Raikes, William Morris, J. R. R. Tolkien, Richard Burton, Roger Bannister, Alan Bennett, and Philip Pullman. Exeter College was founded in 1314...
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  • are Englishman Roger Bannister, American Wes Santee, and Australian John Landy. June 21, 1954: Less than six weeks after Bannister’s historic feat, Australian...
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    increased after Chris Brasher and Chris Chataway successfully paced Roger Bannister to break the four-minute mile for the first time in 1954. Purists argue...
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    v t e Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year 1954: Roger Bannister 1955: Johnny Podres 1956: Bobby Morrow 1957: Stan Musial 1958: Rafer Johnson 1959:...
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  • an Art & Technology Centre. In 2006 the Sir Roger Bannister Sports Centre was officially opened by Bannister (himself an Old Gower). In 2007 a new art,...
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    pacemaker for Roger Bannister when the latter ran the first sub-four-minute mile at Iffley Road Stadium in Oxford. Brasher paced Bannister for the first...
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  • It was at these games that the "Miracle Mile" took place between Roger Bannister and John Landy at Empire Stadium. This was the first time these two...
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    Ambassador to France and Chairman of Joint Intelligence Committee Sir Roger Bannister, neurologist and former Master of Pembroke College; first man to run...
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    v t e Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year 1954: Roger Bannister 1955: Johnny Podres 1956: Bobby Morrow 1957: Stan Musial 1958: Rafer Johnson 1959:...
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    prominently visible along the Iffley Road and from the university's Roger Bannister running track. The original Greyfriars church and friary was founded...
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    Wooderson (GBR) 1946: Lennart Strand (SWE) 1950: Wim Slijkhuis (NED) 1954: Roger Bannister (GBR) 1958: Brian Hewson (GBR) 1962: Michel Jazy (FRA) 1966: Bodo Tümmler...
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    Palmer Park Recreation Center in 1969. His older brother, Roger, started boxing first. Roger helped start the boxing program, urging the center's director...
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    v t e Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year 1954: Roger Bannister 1955: Johnny Podres 1956: Bobby Morrow 1957: Stan Musial 1958: Rafer Johnson 1959:...
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