Three quarters, I heard was 3 minutes, 1 second. Then during the lap in which Chris Chataway took over, inevitably he was tiring. First lap, 58 seconds, and then as one hoped, he took us through the half-mile in 1:58. Word got out that I might break the 4-minute mile, but I didn't want to be rail-roaded to being committed to running it if the conditions were absolutely hopeless.'' Matter of fact, there weren't more than 1,500. ''If the number of people who have come up to me saying they were there, they would have fit into Wembley Stadium. On the size of the crowd at Oxford's Iffley Road track on the day of his run: I said, `If there's a 50-50 chance and I don't take it, I may never get another chance to beat (John) Landy to it.' So I said, `Let's do it.''' I calculated there's a 50-50 chance of my doing it.
And I felt that just 20 minutes before, it was not fluttering as strongly. I noticed it fluttering and I used that as a measure of the strength of the wind. ''I was using a flag on a neighboring church, a St. On the bad weather on the day of his attempt and his uncertainty over whether to run: Although I tried in 1953, I broke the British record, but not the 4-minute mile, and so everything was ready in 1954.'' Our new queen had been crowned the year before, Everest had been climbed in 1953. ''I thought it would be right for Britain to try to get this. My attitude was that it can be done, and it will be done soon, and I'd rather it were done here.'' ''It stood there as something that was waiting to be done, and I was in the right place at the right time and was ready to do it. One man, with such a deep self-belief and firm decision, achieved the victory defeating the beliefs and barriers set by doctors, scientists, and many others.On his drive to be the first to break the 4-minute barrier: Then the glorious day came when, a man named Roger Bannister, at the age of 25, broke this 4-minute barrier by running the distance in 3:59.4. It was a cold and wet day in Oxford, England and Bannister took a rest for five days because he reached his peak, both physically and psychologically. The experts believed that the ideal conditions to break the record were a day with no wind, 20 degrees Celsius temperature, a hard dry clay track, most probably in Scandinavia but May 6th, 1954 was no such day. This record of Nine years, people’s beliefs, and all preconceived notions and barriers were all broken on May 6, 1954. So many runners were trying to break this barrier for many years but couldn’t do it even though they came so close that the Record of 4:01.30 stood still for 9 years. And for these reasons, everyone considered it impossible for a man to run a mile in under 4 minutes and said that whoever will try such a thing will die in a foolish attempt.
Power of SELF-BELIEF It was believed that the bone structure of a human body was wrong, there was huge wind resistance, the lung power was inadequate and the human heart couldn’t take that much strain. But then he decided to use his pain and humiliation to push himself to break the limits and prove himself. He was so gutted it took him the next two months to decide whether or not to quit running. There were very high expectations from him to win 1500 meters but he came in the fourth position. He initially declined to compete in the 1948 Olympics, but he got inspired by watching it, and hence, he participated in the 1952 Olympics. There in the university, the press got the information about his talent. In fact, he actually won a track scholarship to Oxford University. To get a university scholarship, he trained himself for his self-discovered talent of Running. He was interested in studying the science of Medicine but his family was not so financially sound that it could afford his education in university. He did not practice for too many hours like his competitors did, rather he followed his own unique way and just had a firm belief that ‘He could do it!Įarly Life of Roger Bannister Bannister belonged to an ordinary working-class family. Until he proved it in 1954, people including doctors and scientists believed it to be impossible to run a mile in under 4 minutes as it was considered impractical because the human body will collapse under pressure if someone even attempts to do it.īut Bannister proved them all wrong by training himself in his own way.
Introduction The first man to break the 4-minute mark, Sir Roger Bannister is the first man who ran a mile in under four minutes.
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