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The 2 mile (3,520 yards, [1] 10,560 feet, or exactly 3,218.688 metres) is a historic running distance. Like the mile run , it is still contested at some invitational meets due its historical chronology in the United States and United Kingdom .
World records in athletics are ratified by World Athletics. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking. Records are kept for all events contested at the Olympic Games and some others. Unofficial records for some other events are kept by track and field statisticians.
On 8 February 2025, Myers broke his world indoor under-20 mile record by over 5 seconds, running 3:47.48 in the Wanamaker Mile at the Millrose Games in New York City. [23] His time makes him the fourth fastest indoor mile runner in history, [24] and is an Oceanian area record: both indoor and outdoor (equalling Ollie Hoare's outdoor record).
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Masters athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of over 35 years of age. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running.These are the current world records in various five-year-groups, maintained by WMA, the World Association of Masters Athletes, which is designated by the World Athletics (formerly IAAF) to conduct the worldwide sport of Masters ...
Virén had broken the world records for both the 2-mile and the 5,000 m outside the Olympics. Both were done in close proximity to the 1972 Olympics: his 8:14.0 for two miles was on 14 August 1972 and his 13:16.4 for a 5,000 m race on 14 September 1972.
2:12:09.2+ Katie Burnett United States 13 July 2019 National Invitational Racewalks San Diego, United States 25 km walk (road) 2:03:35+ Maria Michta-Coffey United States 6 November 2016 USATF Race Walking Championships Hauppauge, United States [118] 30,000 m walk (track) 2:38:23.5+ Katie Burnett United States 13 July 2019
Diane Susan Leather Charles née Leather (7 January 1933 – 5 September 2018) was an English athlete who was the first woman to run a sub-5-minute mile. [1]Inspired to take up running aged 19 after watching the 1952 Olympic Games, within months Leather had become national cross-country champion, a title she would go on to win four times.