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- Here are two mile masters who followed Roger Bannister by setting milestones
- of their own.
-
- -- John Walker, from Auckland, New
- Zealand, was the first mile runner to
- break 3 minutes 50 seconds. In 1975,
- John ran 3:49.4. John was the first to
- run a mile in less than 4 minutes 100
- times.
-
- -- Today, Noureddine Morceli is the best
- miler in the world. Noureddine is from
- Algeria, a country in northern Africa. In
- 1993, he lowered the world record in
- the mile from 3:46.32 to 3:44.39.