Four-Minute Mile - Paperback
Four-Minute Mile - Paperback
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by Roger Bannister (Author)
The fantastic memoir by Roger Bannister, the middle-distance runner who achieved the epic quest to break the four-minute mile!
Back Jacket
All sports have pivotal moments, single events that change perceptions forever after. For the sport of running, such a moment occurred on a blustery May afternoon in 1954, when Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile. This is the story of that epic run. Today, more than fifty years later, lovers of the sport--runners and non-runners alike--will be moved by this modest but impassioned story of one of sport's true heroes.
Author Biography
Sir Roger Bannister was a medical student at Oxford when he made his famous run. He retired from competition after graduation and went on to pursue a distinguished career as a neurologist. He was knighted in 1975, and passed away in 2018.
