Editing Roger Bannister (section)

==Legacy==
On the 50th anniversary of running the mile in under four minutes, Bannister was interviewed by the [[BBC]]'s sports correspondent [[Rob Bonnet]]. At the conclusion of the interview, Bannister was asked whether he looked back on the sub-4-minute mile as the most important achievement of his life. Bannister replied that he instead saw his subsequent forty years of practising medicine and some of the new procedures he introduced as being more significant. He also said that, in terms of athletic achievement, he felt his performances at the 1952 Olympics and the 1954 Commonwealth Games were more significant than running the sub-4-minute mile.

Ironically, although Roger Bannister is arguably the most famous record-setter in the mile, he is also the man who held the record for the shortest period of time, at least since the [[International Association of Athletics Federations|IAAF]] started to ratify records.<ref name="iaaf">{{cite web|url=http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/05/15/63/20090706014834_httppostedfile_p345-688_11303.pdf|title=12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook. Berlin 2009.|year=2009|publisher=IAAF Media & Public Relations Department|location=Monte Carlo|pages=546, 549–50|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629134819/http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/05/15/63/20090706014834_httppostedfile_p345-688_11303.pdf|archive-date=29 June 2011|access-date=7 March 2018}}</ref>

=== Media ===
For his efforts, Bannister was also made the inaugural recipient of the ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'' [[Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year|Sportsperson of the Year]] award for 1954 (awarded in January 1955) and is one of the few non-Americans recognised by the American-published magazine as such.

In a UK poll conducted by [[Channel 4]] in 2002, the British public voted Bannister's historic sub-4-minute mile as number 13 in the list of the [[100 Greatest Sporting Moments]].<ref>{{Cite web | title= 100 Greatest Sporting Moments – Results | url= https://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/G/greatest_sporting/results.html | archive-date= 17 April 2009 | publisher = [[Channel 4]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417062920/https://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/G/greatest_sporting/results.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Bannister is the subject of the ESPN film ''Four Minutes'' (2005). This film is a dramatisation, its major departures from the factual record being the creation of a fictional character as Bannister's coach, who was actually [[Franz Stampfl]], an Austrian, and secondly his meeting his wife, Moyra Jacobsson, in the early 1950s when in fact they met in London only a few months before the Miracle Mile itself took place. Bannister was portrayed by [[Jamie Maclachlan]].

''Bannister: Everest on the Track, The Roger Bannister Story'' is a 2016 TV documentary about his childhood and youth in [[WWII]] and postwar Britain and the breaking of the 4-minute mile barrier, with interviews of participants and witnesses to the 1954 race, and later runners inspired by Bannister and his achievement, including [[Phil Knight]] who says that Roger Bannister inspired him to start [[Nike, Inc.|Nike]].<ref name="si">{{cite magazine|last1=Chavez|first1=Chris|title=Q&A with Tom Ratcliffe, director of Bannister: Everest on the Track|url=https://www.si.com/more-sports/2016/04/11/roger-bannister-documentary-film-everest-track-interview-phil-knight|access-date=14 December 2016|magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]]|date=11 April 2016}}</ref>

In the 1988 television mini-series ''[[The Four Minute Mile]]'', about the rivalry between Bannister, John Landy and Wes Santee to be first to break the 4-minute mile mark, Bannister was portrayed by actor [[Richard Huw]].

=== Places ===
In 1996, Pembroke College at the University of Oxford (where Bannister was Master for eight years) named a building in honour of his achievements. The Bannister Building, an 18th-century townhouse in Brewer Street, was converted to provide accommodation for graduate students. Following extensive refurbishments during 2011 and 2012, it became part of the building complex surrounding the Rokos Quad, and was then used for undergraduate accommodation.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/library/Documents/archive/architectural_history_of_pembroke_digital.pdf|title=Pembroke College Oxford: Architectural History|last=Chivers|first=Clara|publisher=Pembroke College Oxford|pages=26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180114075829/https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/library/Documents/archive/architectural_history_of_pembroke_digital.pdf|archive-date=14 January 2018}}</ref>

In March 2004, [[St Mary's Hospital Medical School]] named a lecture theatre after Bannister; on display is the stopwatch that was used to time the race, stopped at 3:59.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/college.asp?P=5008|title=Tribute to miracle miler Sir Roger|last=Reed|first=Tanya|date=31 March 2004|work=Reporter|access-date=7 March 2018|publisher=Imperial College London|issue=139}}</ref> Bannister also gave his name to the trophy presented to the winning team in the annual athletics [[List of British and Irish varsity matches|varsity match]] between [[Imperial College School of Medicine]] and [[Imperial College London]], as well as the award given to the graduating doctor of Imperial College School of Medicine who has achieved most in the sporting community. Bannister also purchased the cup (which bears his name) awarded to the winning team in the annual United Hospitals Cross-Country Championship, organised by [[London Universities and Colleges Athletics]]. The championship is contested by the five medical schools in London and the [[Royal Veterinary College]].

In 2012, Bannister carried the Olympic flame at the site of his memorable feat, in the [[Roger Bannister running track|Oxford University track stadium]] now named after him.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/torch-relay/9390587/London-2012-Olympic-torch-relay-Sir-Roger-Bannister-heads-cast-of-greats-at-his-famous-track-in-Oxford.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/torch-relay/9390587/London-2012-Olympic-torch-relay-Sir-Roger-Bannister-heads-cast-of-greats-at-his-famous-track-in-Oxford.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=London 2012 Olympic torch relay: Sir Roger Bannister heads cast of greats at his famous track in Oxford|last=Kelso|first=Paul|date=10 July 2012|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|access-date=7 March 2018|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

[[File:Roger Bannister memorial stone.jpg|thumb|Memorial stone in Westminster Abbey]]
On 28 September 2021, a memorial stone honouring Sir Roger, "pioneering neurologist, world champion runner", was unveiled in [[Westminster Abbey]], in the area known as "Scientists' corner".<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Roger Bannister honoured with new memorial stone |url=https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-news/sir-roger-bannister-honoured-with-new-memorial-stone |access-date=29 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Exonian Sir Roger Bannister Westminster Abbey memorial stone unveiled |url=https://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/exonian-sir-roger-bannister-westminster-abbey-memorial-stone-unveiled/ |website=Exeter College |access-date=5 October 2021 |date=1 October 2021}}</ref>

===Memorabilia===
The 50th anniversary of Bannister's achievement was marked by a commemorative British [[Fifty pence (British coin)|50-pence coin]]. The reverse of the coin shows the legs of a runner and a stopwatch (stopped at 3:59.4).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/coin-design-and-specifications/fifty-pence-coin|title=Fifty Pence Coin|work=The Royal Mint|access-date=7 March 2018}}</ref> There were 9,032,500 minted.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2004 Roger Bannister 50p Coin - Mintage: 9,032,500 - Scarcity Index: 3 |url=https://www.changechecker.org/coin/8/50p-Roger-Bannister.aspx |access-date=2022-11-09 |website=www.changechecker.org}}</ref> The coin was re-struck for collector sets in 2019 as part of the [[Royal Mint|Royal Mint's]] '50 Years of the 50p coin', along with other designs.<ref>{{Cite web |title=50 Years of the 50p coin {{!}} The Royal Mint |url=https://www.royalmint.com/our-coins/events/50-years-of-the-50p/ |access-date=2022-11-09 |website=www.royalmint.com |language=en-GB}}</ref>

In the gallery of Pembroke College dining hall, there is a cabinet containing over 80 exhibits covering Bannister's athletic career and including some academic highlights.<ref>{{Cite web | title= Pembroke College " The Gallery | url= https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/conferences/dining-rooms/gallery | archive-date= 18 October 2013 | publisher= [[Pembroke College, Oxford|Pembroke College]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131018120819/https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/conferences/dining-rooms/gallery |url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Anniversary Races{{NoteTag|In the third paragraph, this section references [[Mile run world record progression]].|name=Note 1}} ===
On 6 May 2024, exactly seventy years after Bannister's sub-four minute mile, hundreds of runners converged in [[Oxford]] to run a mile in Bannister's honor. The event saw thousands run a "Community Mile", and several races for elite runners on the Iffley Track. In the elite mile, four athletes broke the four minute barrier, with [[Italy|Italy's]] [[Ossama Meslek]] clocking the fastest mile, at 3:56.15.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last=Dickinson |first=Marley |date=2024-05-06 |title=World record holder celebrates Bannister's sub-four mile, 70 years ago today |url=https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/world-record-holder-celebrates-bannisters-sub-four-mile-70-years-ago-today/ |access-date=2024-05-07 |website=Canadian Running Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>

This is the second time Iffley Track hosted an anniversary event for Bannister's achievement, with the previous time being in 2004.<ref name=":8" />

Retired, accomplished milers including [[Steve Cram]], [[Hicham El Guerrouj]], [[Filbert Bayi]], [[Noureddine Morceli]], and [[Eamonn Coghlan]] attended, all of whom have had the [[Mile run world record progression|mile world record]] to their name. Bayi ran 3:51.0 in May 1975, holding the mile world record for three months until August 1975, when [[John Walker (runner)|John Walker]] of [[New Zealand]] ran 3:49.4. Cram ran 3:46.32 in 1985, holding the [[Mile run world record progression|mile world record]] until [[Noureddine Morceli]] of [[Algeria]] ran 3:44.39 in 1993. Finally, on 7 July 1999, El Guerrouj ran 3:43.13, the current mile world record to this day, which is over sixteen seconds faster than Bannister's 3:59.4. Although not an outdoor record, Coghlan set an indoor mile world record of 3:49.78 in 1983, which was bettered by El Guerrouj in 1997 who ran 3:48.45.<ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Krqc54YSaQ |title=Supermiler Noureddine Morceli at the Bannister Miles in Oxford |date=2024-05-06 |last=Athletics Weekly |access-date=2024-07-08 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.facebook.com/athleticsweekly/videos/eamonn-coghlan-on-his-amazing-34978-mile-world-record/477728181274498/ |title=Eamonn Coghlan on his amazing 3:49.78 mile world record {{!}} "Running 3:49.78 for a world record was the most memorable achievement in my career. I wrote down that exact time beforehand as I knew my splits." An... {{!}} By Athletics WeeklyFacebook |language=en |access-date=2024-07-08 |via=www.facebook.com}}</ref>