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Contents. Mile run world record progression. 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 ...
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 ...
12 October 1992. 13 October 1992. Concorde FAI "Westbound Around the World" world air speed record from Lisbon, Portugal. [27][28][29] Michel Dupont and Claude Hetru (Air France) 31 hours 27 minutes and 49 seconds. 15 August 1995. 16 August 1995. Concorde with 98 passengers and crew, no equatorial crossing.
Michael Wardian at 48 years old ran across the United States in 62 days, starting on May 1, 2022, and finishing on July 1, 2022. He primarily followed Route 50 from west to east, covering a distance of 3,234 miles (5,205 km). [140] Wardian aimed to log around 50 miles (80 km) a day and planned to be on his feet for around 11 to 15 hours a day ...
The Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race is the world's longest certified footrace. [1] In 1996 Sri Chinmoy created this event as a 2,700-mile (4,345 km) race. At the award ceremony that year he declared that the 1997 edition would be extended to 3,100 miles (4,989 km). This race, which lasts several weeks, is hosted by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon ...
This was the first time in over 40 years that two men had bettered the mile world record in the same race, [28] neither of which have been broken in a quarter of a century. Later that season he set a new world record over 2000 m in Berlin at 4:44.79, bettering the previous mark set by Morceli by more than three seconds, that has since been ...
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. [249][250]Under conventional football timing on a turf field in 2017, Christian Colemanreportedly ran a 4.12.
From 2 April to 16 July 1984 Jay Aldous and Matt DeWaal rode 22,997 km/14,290 miles in 106 days, riding a greater distance in a shorter time than Nick Sanders in 1981. Aldous and DeWaal started and ended in Salt Lake City, US, and traveled in an easterly direction passing through 15 different countries. Matt DeWaal.