Using newsreel footage, this Sportscope entry chronicles the race toward running's four-minute mile, highlighting several important contests. It starts in the 1920's, when Finland's Paavo Nurmi set the record for the distance at 4 minutes 10.4 seconds. It continues through Roger Bannister's first run under 4 minutes in 1954, and ends in spring 1956, when Australia's Joe Bailey became the first to break 4 minutes on US soil.
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Paavo Nurmi
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Harry Wismer
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Fiorello LaGuardia
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Arne Andersson
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Jules Ladoumegue
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Bill Bonthron
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John Lovelock
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Glenn Cunningham
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Gene Venzke
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Sidney Wooderson
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Gunder Hägg
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Roger Bannister
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John Landy
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Christopher Chataway
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