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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] 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. [citation needed] It survived track and field 's switch to metric distances in the 1900s and retained its popularity, with the chase for the four ...
El Guerrouj is widely regarded as the greatest middle-distance runner in history [5] [6] [7] and, as of June 2024, still holds six of the 10 fastest times ever run in the 1500 m [8] as well as seven of the 15 fastest times in the mile. [9] He won a gold medal in the 1500 m at the 1997, 1999, 2001, and 2003 World Athletics Championships.
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 Greeneat the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. [255][256]Under conventional football timing on a turf field in 2017, Christian Colemanreportedly ran a 4.12.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen. Jakob Ingebrigtsen (born 19 September 2000) [3] is a Norwegian middle- and long-distance runner who is the current world record holder in the short track 1500 metres, the 2000 metres and the 3000 metres, and holds the world best time over the two mile distance. Ingebrigtsen is a two-time Olympic champion, having won gold ...
In 1967, Ryun set a world record in the indoor half mile (1:48.3) and the outdoor mile from (3:51.1), a record that stood for almost eight years. That same year he set the world record for the 1,500 meters (3:33.1). In NCAA competition, Ryun was the 1967 NCAA outdoor mile champion. He was also the NCAA indoor mile champion in 1967, 1968, and 1969.
General. World Athletics U-18 Best Performances 23 June 2024 updated. Specific. ^ Olivia Ekpone (9 July 2023). "Christian Miller Clocks 10.06 For No. 4 All-Time In The 100m". milesplit.com. Retrieved 13 July 2023. ^ "100m Semifinal Results" (PDF). hangzhou2022.cn. 30 September 2023. Retrieved 1 October 2023. ^ Roy Jordan (28 June 2021).
Galen Rupp. Galen Rupp (born May 8, 1986) [1] is an American long-distance runner. He competed in the Summer Olympics in 2008 in Beijing, 2012 in London, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro and 2021 in Tokyo. He won the silver medal in the men's 10,000 meters in London and the bronze medal in the men's marathon in Rio de Janeiro.