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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 is usually attributed to the English athlete Roger Bannister, who ran it in 1954 at age 25, in 3:59.4. The mile record has since...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    Andrew Irvine, RAF pilot Leonard Cheshire, athlete and neurologist Roger Bannister (later Master of Pembroke College, Oxford), journalist Tanya Gold and...
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    footballer Roger Avary, Canadian producer, screenwriter and director Roger Ballen, American artist working in South Africa Roger Bannister (1929–2018)...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    ecstasy-like state. Joseph Campbell had a peak experience whilst running. Roger Bannister on breaking the four-minute mile (Cameron, 1993: 185): "No longer conscious...
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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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    February 2001. Professor Sir Richard Doll: 16 September 2002. Sir Roger Bannister: 12 May 2004. Sir Philip Pullman: 24 January 2007. Professor Christopher...
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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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  • focusing on the rivalry between Roger Bannister and John Landy. Nique Needles as John Landy Richard Huw as Roger Bannister John McTernan as Dave Garroway...
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