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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.
Brooks Running 50 km & Marathon Dorena Lake, United States [130] 50 miles (road/trail) 5:31:56 Courtney Olsen: 9 November 2024 Tunnel Hill 50 Mile Vienna, United States [131] 100 km: 7:00:48 Ann Trason United States September 16, 1995 IAU 100 km World Championships: Winschoten, Netherlands [132] 100 miles (road/trail) 12:42:40 Camille Herron: Nike
The fastest marathon ever run by a 12-year-old of either gender, according to the Assn. of Road Racing Statisticians, was a 2:54 run by German runner Manuela Zipse in a 1986 race.
On May 30, 2020, Gregorek ran what is believed to be the fastest mile ever run by someone wearing blue jeans in 4 minutes and 6.25 seconds, beating the previous world record by five seconds. Gregorek ran the Blue Jean Mile wearing 100% cotton Levi's, while raising over $37,500 for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).