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The world record in the mile run is the fastest time set by a runner in the middle-distance track and field event. World Athletics is the official body which oversees the records. Hicham El Guerrouj is the current men's record holder with his time of 3:43.13, [1] while Faith Kipyegon has the women's record of 4:07.64. [2]
The mile run (1,760 yards, [2] 5,280 feet, or exactly 1,609.344 metres) is a middle-distance foot race.. The history of the mile run event began in England, where it was used as a distance for gambling races.
The world best time for a "football 40" is 4.17 by Deion Sanders, while the extrapolated best for an Olympic-level athlete (including reacting to a starting gun) is 4.24 by Maurice Greene at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. [246] [247] Under conventional football timing on a turf field in 2017, Christian Coleman reportedly ran a 4.12 ...
El Guerrouj is widely regarded as the greatest middle-distance runner in history [4] [5] [6] and, as of October 2024, still holds six of the 10 fastest times ever run in the 1500 m [7] as well as seven of the 15 fastest times in the mile. [8] He and Jakob Ingebrigtsen are the only men in history to have broken both 3:27 in the 1500 m and 3:44 ...
For the two-mile run, they run 3200 meters. For the long-hurdle race, they run 300 meters instead of the 400 metres hurdles. Some states ran over lower hurdle heights for a period of time. In field events, boys throw different weights of their implements than with international open division or the more comparable junior-division implements.
Tunnel Hill 50 Mile Vienna, United States [52] 100 km (road) 6:09:26 Jim Walmsley: Hoka January 23, 2021 Project Carbon X 2 Chandler, United States [53] 100 miles (road) 11:19:13+ [e] Zach Bitter: Altra August 24–25, 2019 Six Days in the Dome – The Redux 24h Day 2 Milwaukee, United States [54] 12 hours (road) 168.792 km [f] Zach Bitter: Altra
4 × mile relay: 15:51.91 Sean Donoghue 3:59.32 Charlie O' Donovan 4:00.09 Marco Langon 3:58.18 Liam Murphy 3:54.32: Villanova University: April 27, 2024 Penn Relays: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [29] Sprint medley relay (2-2-4-8) 3:11.94 Fred Kerley Elijah Morrow Mylik Kerley Devin Dixon: Texas A&M University: April 28, 2017 SEC Relays Baton ...
On 30 October 1863, William Lang ran a downhill mile time trial in 4:02 in Newmarket, Suffolk, England. [6] [7] Due to the downhill slope, the time would not have been valid for record-keeping but nonetheless would be the fastest mile ever run until 1943, and began speculation about when the first sub-four-minute mile would be performed. [8] [9]