Running The Mile

Most of us would have heard that Roger Bannister was the first human to even run below 4 minutes for the mile (1609m) in 1954. The current word record 3min 43.13sec set on 7 July 1999 by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morroco. The record has stood for almost 7 years. Wonder anyone would break it soon.

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