14 minutes 34.56 seconds for long course lap swimming and 14 minutes 26.62 seconds for short course.
The world record for swimming a mile is held by Sun Yang of China. Sun's time is 14 minutes 31 seconds, set in 2012.
3:43.16
The quarter mile is about 400m. Michael Johnson: 43.18 seconds
No woman as ever finshed a mile.
peter snell sets world mile record in 15 march 1965
The world record for the 3-mile run is 12 minutes and 51 seconds, set by Daniel Komen of Kenya in 1997.
The current world record for the mile is about 3:43.
The 1500 meter swim, which is approximately a mile, record is 14:34.56 by Grant Hackett from Australia. This record, along with other swimming records, can be found at- http://www.vilacom.net/swimming/men.php Actually, to approximate swimming a mile, one would have to swim 1609.34 meters -- that's 109.34 meters more than the 1500 meter swim or 2.19 more lengths of a 50 meter pool. (1 meter = 3.2808399 feet)
The women's world record for the exact two-mile (about 3218 meters) is 8:58.58 set by Meseret Defar of Ethiopia in 2007
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The mile and a half run is extremely rarely, if ever contested by elite runners. However based on current world records for the mile and two mile, we can infer that the world record if it were commonly contested would probably be about 5:50.