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2.28 m (7 ft 5 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) Dothel Edwards: 9 July 1983 Athens, United States 16 years, 303 days [12] Pole vault: 5.40 m (17 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) Brandon Bray: 10 May 2014 Austin, Texas, United States 17 years, 16 days [13] Long jump: 7.94 m (26 ft 1 ⁄ 2 in) Charles Smith: 30 July 1983 New Britain, Connecticut, United States 17 years, 67 days [14]
17 years, 37 days [9] Mile: 3:54.56 Isaac Kiprono Songok Kenya: 20 August 2001 Linz, Austria 17 years, 117 days 2000 m: 4:56.86 Isaac Kiprono Songok Kenya: 31 August 2001 ISTAF: Berlin, Germany 17 years, 128 days 3000 m: 7:32.37 Abreham Cherkos Ethiopia: 11 July 2006 Athletissima: Lausanne, Switzerland 16 years, 291 days Two miles: 8:16.07 ...
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.
But offer them coupons and a free T-shirt, they come in droves to run the mile-long course at Junior Bloomsday, the much shorter version of the annual 7.5-mile race for kids in third to seventh grade.
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18 years, 268 days 1000 m: 2:34.89 Audrey Werro Switzerland 17 June 2023 Meeting Nikaïa: Nice, France 19 years, 82 days [54] 1500 m: 3:51.34 Lang Yinglai China 18 October 1997 National Games of China: Shanghai, China 18 years, 57 days Mile: 4:17.57 Zola Budd Great Britain 21 August 1985 Weltklasse Zürich: Zürich, Switzerland 19 years, 87 days
The first person to run the mile (1,760 yards, or 1,609.344 metres) in under four minutes was Roger Bannister in 1954, in a time of 3:59.4. [1] This barrier would not be broken by a high school student until 1964, when Jim Ryun ran the distance in a time of 3:59.0 at the Compton Relays. [2]
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 ]