How 2 men smashed through a marathon barrier long thought unbreakable
- Written by Mark Connick, Postdoctoral Researcher in Paralympic Classification and Biomechanics, The University of Queensland; Queensland University of Technology
On May 6 1954, Sir Roger Bannister did what was deemed impossible in athletics: he ran a mile in less than four minutes.
The milestone was celebrated worldwide, not just by athletics fans. It was considered at the time to be a similar achievement to scaling Mount Everest for the first time, which Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay had done the...
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