Roger Bannister

Roger Bannister

• Bannister was the first person to run the first sub-four-minute mile, as well as being a physician and academic. He achieved this feat on May 6^th 1954 in Oxford. His actual time was 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds.
• Well in this specific instance, Bannister had minimal training and had focused most of his energies on his becoming a doctor.
•  The technology that must have helped him achieve his goal would have been the technology to tell and record time for when he trained.

Reflection: I think that Bannister’s achievement is a pretty amazing one because he didn’t train all that much and was still able to set the record that he did.