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  2. Mile run world record progression - Wikipedia

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    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's record of ...

  3. Mile run - Wikipedia

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    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. [citation needed] It survived track and field 's switch to metric distances in the 1900s and retained its popularity, with the chase for ...

  4. List of world records in masters athletics - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Four-minute mile - Wikipedia

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    A four-minute mile is the completion of a mile run (1.6 km) in four minutes or less. It translates to a speed of 15 miles per hour (24 km/h). [1] It is a standard of professional middle distance runners in several cultures. The first four-minute mile is usually attributed to the English athlete Roger Bannister, who ran it in 1954 at age 25, in ...

  6. List of United States records in masters athletics - Wikipedia

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    Contents. List of United States records in masters athletics. These are the current records in the various age groups of masters athletics for United States competitors. Starting at age 35, each age group starts on the athlete's birthday in years that are evenly divisible by 5 and extends until the next such occurrence.

  7. List of world records in athletics - Wikipedia

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    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. [252] [253] Under conventional football timing on a turf field in 2017, Christian Coleman reportedly ran a 4.12 ...

  8. List of masters world records in road running - Wikipedia

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    RTRT.me. 14 January 2024. Retrieved 14 January 2024. ^ "Rosa Mota Valencia Half Marathon 2023 Result". valenciaciudaddelrunning.com. 22 October 2023. Retrieved 4 November 2023. ^ Martin Duff (8 October 2024). "Sarah Roberts runs world age 75 best of 44:33 over 10km". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 13 October 2024.

  9. Jakob Ingebrigtsen - Wikipedia

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    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 is also the current world best holder over the two mile distance. Ingebrigtsen is a two-time Olympic champion, having won gold medals in ...