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Roger Bannister
was the first to run a mile in
under four minutes
at the university's
Iffley Road track
; it was renamed the "Roger Bannister running track" in 2007. Bannister has links to three Oxford colleges: he studied at
Merton
and
Exeter
, and was later Master of
Pembroke
.
Credit:
Jonathan Bowen
Roger Bannister
was the first to run a mile in
under four minutes
at the university's
Iffley Road track
; it was renamed the "Roger Bannister running track" in 2007. Bannister has links to three Oxford colleges: he studied at
Merton
and
Exeter
, and was later Master of
Pembroke
.