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@[]##4-MINUTE MILE: TRIUMPH OF RG BANNISTER
Three months after his four-minute mile Bannister clashed with the man who had beaten his record, John Landy from Australia. Their "race of the century" in the Empire Games in Vancouver resulted in victory for Bannister, in 3 minutes 58.8 seconds#A quarter of a century after Bannister's record-breaking run, Sebastian Coe brought the mile record down to 3 minutes 49 seconds#If Bannister had run on a modern tartan track as opposed to the cinders of Iffley Road, Oxford, he could have shaved several seconds off his time#Norris McWhirter, the founder of The Guinness Book of Records, was the stadium announcer on the night of Bannister's mile record in Oxford#In 1993, Noureddine Morceli of Algeria became the 12th different athlete to break the mile record since Bannister's run in 1954
