This week’s lesson focuses on one of the greatest achievements in the history of athletics: the breaking of the four-minute mile barrier by Roger Bannister, a British amateur runner, on 6th May 1954 .

Related Websites
Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself.
A short piece from BBC Newsround in which a young British teenager explains why she loves athletics. http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4840000/newsid_4841400/4841402.stm

A brief article on Roger Bannister’s record-breaking run, plus a link to the ‘20 greatest individual athletic achievements’. http://www.forbes.com/2005/11/18/bannister-four-minute-mile_cx_de_lr_1118bannister.html

A BBC article from 2004, published on the 50th anniversary of Bannister’s great achievement. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/3688913.stm

The current men’s and women’s world records in the principal track and field events http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_world_records