First Sub-4-minute Miler Roger Bannister Dies

From Bleacher Report
Sir Roger Bannister, the first person to run a mile in under four minutes, has died aged 88.
As BBC Sport relayed, the Bannister family released a statement confirming the news on Sunday morning.
In it, they noted the legendary runner “died peacefully” and “surrounded by his family who were as loved by him as he was loved by them.”
Bannister etched his name into athletics history on May 6, 1954, when he completed the mile distance in a time of three minutes, 59.4 seconds in Oxford, England.
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