First Sub-Four Minute Mile - Sir Roger Bannister - Guinness World Records 60th Anniversary

Subscribe for more: http://bit.ly/subscribetoGWR As one of the iconic achievements in human endurance, Sir Roger Bannister grants us an insight into just what it felt like to be the first person to break the sub-four-minute mile on 6 May 1954 in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds. Lord Sebastian Coe provides additional commentary. Welcome to the official Guinness World Records YouTube channel! If you're looking for videos featuring the world's tallest, shortest, fastest, longest, oldest and most incredible things on the planet, you're in the right place. LIKE us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/GuinnessWorldRecords FOLLOW us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/gwr Find out more: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/ Add us to your G+ circles: www.google.com/+guinnessworldrecords

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1. yee
2. brilliant very inspirational :)
3. He did it, back then, with limited training volume, and poor diet!!!!!! amazing guy
4. Running was a closed shop in those days for graduates, but did you realise that the rest of the country were living in slums and their streets were still covered by bombed out buildings?
   Worse, still; as Rog was enjoying the high life at Oxford, the rest of the country were still on rations and thousands of children and mothers had to continue life without fathers, so I know who had to deal with a harder battle than a 4 minute mile!
   I bet his family didn't live like that and there weren't that many young men actually still alive in the country and that's what perpetuated the immigration from the West Indies and not because we gave them crap jobs and because we didn't want to do them!
   You can't compare your times to Sir Roger Bannister rail, because he was an upper class twit; had the best coaches; ate the most nutritious food; spent his time studying at the tax payers' expense and running around a track, all while the rest of the country were living in slums and still on rations.
   That was the real England!
   As soon as Rog set that record, 37 others beat it in following 2 years and all we hear about is how this Oxford graduate achieved something which we couldn't do, but that's like me setting a record for walking one mile while smoking a pipe, becasue nobody was daft enough to do it and 1500 was the target at those times instead!
   These are the names of his children:
   Erin Bannister Townsend, Clive Christopher Bannister, Thurstan Bannister.
   
   Such a normal lad he was, so get stuffed!
5. World fairness bring with sky's brightness & shinning peace for life! www.guinnessworldrecords.com/2016
6. This is my great uncle , makes me proud because I'm a runner
7. Save childrean's for think about world fairness! www.guinnessworldrecords.com/2016
8. 4 minute mile unimaginable what the heck mind blown OMG
9. I hope to be able to do this one day
10. He didn't die you idiots!
11. No no no he beat he beat Louie Zamperini!!!!!!
12. Alright I'm 12 and I run the mile in 4 mins 14 seconds. The fastest time at my school is 2:55 so these people are slow
13. @Bendjy Herman, they were first hot air balloon to cross.  So no technically 2nd.
14. 15 MPH O MY GOSH
15. But I thought records have to be breakable, so you can't have a Guinness world record for the first person to do something.
16. Кто русский,лайк)
17. rip
18. Poor guy died :c
19. 1st to masturbate to this
20. 2nd .... Technically