James Fletcher
speaker
208 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2014
last heard Sep 2014
James Fletcher’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But that's it for that first 12 months.
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Roger Bannister plus John Landy.
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What about after that?
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In the following 12 months, four other men beat the four-minute mark, and it was another five in the year after that.
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But it was more than six years before 24 people had run sub-four minutes, and it wasn't until 21 August 1962, over eight years later, that that 37th person broke four minutes for the mile.
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And where does the record stand today?
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The current record is 3 minutes, 43.13 seconds, set by the Moroccan runner Hicham El Garouj back in 1999.
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That was 15 years ago, so that record has stood for a fair bit longer than the supposedly impossible record that Bannister broke.
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