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four-minute man

DEFINITIONS OF: four-minute man

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n someone who has run the mile in less that 4 minutes

Examples:
Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister
English runner who in 1954 became the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes (born in 1929)
John Walker
New Zealand runner who in 1975 became the first person to run a mile in less that 3 minutes and 50 seconds (born in 1952)
Type of:
miler
a runner in a one-mile race
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