and so Roger Bannister is a household name and John Landy isn’t. In the telling of the great race to be the first athlete to run a mile under four minutes, the belief that human beings were ...

The classic mile race is to return to the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, rekindling the memory of the great Australian runner John Landy and his legendary British rival Roger Bannister.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen is the first athlete since John Landy in 1954 to set world records for the mile and 1,500m in the same race. Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen greets supporters after breaking the ...