Editing Roger Bannister (section)

=== 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>