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Sporting firsts that broke new ground
First four-minute mile runner
Approximately 3,000 spectators witnessed Roger Bannister becoming the first man in recorded history to run the mile in under four minutes in 1954 during a meet between British AAA and Oxford University at Iffley Road Track in Oxford.
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