he had pacers, chris chataway and chris brasher, and they were important.ant. in a sense it was a team effort. it was definitely a team effort. it was definitely a team effort. they chose the event, they chose the place, they chose the time. and they had a strategy and they stuck to that strategy. he was they stuck to that strategy. he was the one who came through. he always gave credit to chris chataway and eve ryo ne gave credit to chris chataway and everyone else in the race. he felt he was the person who crossed the line first but it was absolutely a team effort. he immortalised iffley road as the stadium. when you look back on it, you get nostalgia because it really was the amateur days of athletics. you have this image of him waking up in the morning and getting on the train and turning up, putting his spikes on and giving it a go. that wouldn't happen now. it is a completely different sport now, completely professional. we admire that. we love that, the symbolism of what he did that day. but the most important thing of it was breaking that elusive ba

i overtake chris chataway and begin the finish. and here he comes. and begin the finish. 250 yards to the tapes. every stride counted. with about 250 yards to the tapes. the tape broke at three minutes 59.4 seconds. and bannister has done it. minutes 59.4 seconds. though he is out on his feet, his coach and team manager tell him he has achieved his ambition. his coach and team manager tell him it might have felt like the world stopped when that clock stopped. four minute mile was a sporting catch phrase everyone recognised. all i can say i'm absolutely overwhelmed and delighted. it was a great surprise to me to be able to do it today. and i think i was very lucky. able to do it today. there was certainly a feeling of it being a national event, and something of a landmark for the country. sir roger bannister was a hugely influential figure in sport. especially for those whose athletics careers came after. roger was a great athlete. athletics careers came after. he would tease seb and i in later years about had he been around in our day and had better tracks and better shoe

and chris chataway took me through the three—quarter mile in 3:05.59, and i was really trying to decide what moment to overtake him. because it was a help, while he was ahead, going at the right speed, and if i‘d overtaken him on the next to last bend, i would‘ve had to run wide and that would‘ve been a bit of total extra distance and i didn‘t want to run more than 1,760 yards. so i waited until he was reallyjust coming into the straight and then i could overtake him without running any extra distance. and then i had to... the last 70, 100 yards or so. well, the whole of the last corner, bend, and the finishing straight, i just didn‘t know whether my legs were getting slower, although my brain was telling them to very to much keep going. we are about 10 yards or so now from the line. we are near the line now. so, as you reach this point, i mean, what were your feelings is that moment? you are about to... well, my feelings were that i was so close, that i couldn‘t really believe i‘d failed, but the stopwatches held the answer and i had to wait, i coul

sir roger accomplished the historic feat with help from two other british runners — chris chataway ands been paying his tribute. it is difficult for us 64 years later to understand at the time how important it was. this was britain coming out of a war, with rationing. he lifted a nation. he did what was seen to be physiologically impossible. people had tried for yea rs impossible. people had tried for years to break this magical barrier. could someone run underfour years to break this magical barrier. could someone run under four minutes for a could someone run under four minutes fora mile? could someone run under four minutes for a mile? and could someone run under four minutes fora mile? and he did it. but could someone run under four minutes for a mile? and he did it. but what he also did in his life outside running, in medicine, who he was, his humility. he was head of the sports council which then became sport england. this is the end of an era. he with my father and chris chat away, the three of them, what they achieved in sport was amazing. what they then went and achieved outsi

we just saw him watching himself running that sub four minute mile and he did it with chris chataway ifficult to do it by yourself. the event didn't happen until six o'clock in the evening of most of them thought it wouldn't happen because the weather was so bad in the day. i think that roger bannister was at work earlier in the day and he went off to work at oxford and then became this extraordinary moment. i think as he crossed the line, he thought he had got it. and then there was an element of suspense and the announcer said it is three minutes... and the crowd erupted and they did not hear what the time was and they knew it was the sub four minute mile. and such a different sporting era. he had been working and then he turned up to do this. that would be unthinkable now. modern athletes have intense preparations now, don't they? the diet, the regime that they live under. yes. i think roger bannister was working towards that with his training regime. iwas was working towards that with his training regime. i was reading about the pacesetters. i can't remember if it was chris chataw

i overtake chris chataway and begin the finish. and here he comes.d. the tape broke at three minutes 59.a seconds. and bannister has done it. though he is out on his feet, his coach and team manager tell him he has achieved his ambition. it might have felt like the world stopped when that clock stopped. four minute mile was a sporting catch phrase everyone recognised. there was certainly a feeling of it being a national event and something ofa being a national event and something of a landmark for the country. lam i am overwhelmed and delighted at being able to do it today. i was very lucky. sir roger bannister was knighted in 1995. he regarded his work as a neurologist as more consistent. he described the gentle irony when he was diagnosed with parkinson's disease. his training would have been half an hour a day on the cinder track. he was perhaps sport's last great amateur. sir roger bannister, who has died at the age of 88. that is it from me. last week, many a scene like this. for some of you, some days to come will also look like that because th

i overtake chris chataway and begin the finish. and here he comes.er goes streaking forward with about 250 yards to the tape. before their friend bannister took over. every stride counted. the tape broke at 3 minutes 59.4 seconds. and bannister has done it! he's out on his feet. his coach and team manager tell him he has achieved his ambition. there was certainly a feeling of it being a national event, something of a landmark for the country. it might have felt like the world stopped when that clock stopped. "four—minute mile" was a sporting catchphrase everybody recognised. all i can say is i am absolutely overwhelmed and delighted. it was a great surprise to me to be able to do it today and i think i was very lucky. sir roger bannister was knighted in 1975. athletics was only a small part of his life. he regarded his work as a neurologist as more significant. when he was diagnosed with parkinson's disease, he described the gentle irony that a neurologist should find himself with a neurological condition. training for roger bannister in athletics ha