The current world record for running a mile is 3 minutes and 43.13 seconds, set by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco in 1999.
Hicham El Guerrouj
Roger Bannister was the first man to break the four minute mile. He did it in May, 1954 at a meet in England, I believe with a time of 3:59.4. He was running with others that also had the potential. I guess you could say that the conditions were just right for him to break the record.
Wilma Rudolph did not participate in the mile run. She was a sprinter who specialized in the 100 meter dash and the 200 meter dash.
The men's world record for running the mile is 3:43.13, set by Hicham El Guerrouj in 1999. The women's world record for running the mile is 4:12.33, set by Sifan Hassan in 2019.
roger bannister has a sporting record for running a mile in under 4 minutes
The current world record for the mile is about 3:43.
Yarendy tolecker
The current world record for the fastest mile is held by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco, with a time of 3 minutes and 43.13 seconds, set in 1999.
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.
The current record for running the fastest mile relay race in high school is currently 3 minutes, 58 seconds, and 30 milliseconds. The record was set on May 15, 1965 by Jim Ryun from Wichita East High School.
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46 days. Roger Bannister broke the world record in the mile run by running a 3:59.4 on May 6, 1954. That record was broken on June 21, 1954 when John Landy ran the mile in 3:58.0.