four-minute man

Definitions of four-minute man
  1. noun
    someone who has run the mile in less that 4 minutes
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    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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