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The table shows the year (first column) when the men's world record for the mile was broken this century, and the time in seconds for the mile (second column). For example, in 1933 the world record dropped from 4 minutes 9.2 seconds to 4 minutes 7.6 seconds. (This was set by Jack Lovelock of New Zealand, whose advice and training methods were used by Roger Bannister to run the first sub 4 minute mile in 1954.) Data taken from Information Please, 1995.

1st col	2nd col
1911	255.40
1913	254.60
1915	252.60
1923	250.40
1931	249.20
1933	247.60
1934	246.80
1937	246.40
1942	244.60
1943	242.60
1944	241.60
1945	241.40
1954	238.00
1957	237.20
1958	234.50
1962	234.40
1964	234.10
1965	233.60
1966	231.30
1967	231.10
1975	229.40
1979	229.00
1980	228.80
1981	227.33
1985	226.31
1993	224.39