There is a record of 11:28:03 (about 11.47 hours) by Oleg Kharitonov on a track on Oct. 20, 2002 in a race in London. This beat the previous record held by Don Ritchie, which was 11:30:51 (October 1977).
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The current world record for a 200-mile run is held by Zach Bitter, who completed the distance in 34 hours, 26 minutes, and 19 seconds. He set this record at the Six Days in the Dome event in Wisconsin in 2019.
World records are not kept for 200 miles as its not a standard distance. The best time may well belong to Yiannis Kouros who ran it in 1 day 5 hours 3 minutes and 45 seconds in Sugeres, France in 1995.
The world record for the 3-mile run is 12 minutes and 51 seconds, set by Daniel Komen of Kenya in 1997.
No woman as ever finshed a mile.
The current world record for the mile is about 3:43.
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.
In 1960, Herb Elliott set the world record for the one-mile run, and Pyotr Bolotnikov set the world record for the 15,000 meters run. Elliott's record stood until 1966, while Bolotnikov's record lasted until 1971.
If you can run almost 52 mph then you would make it. If Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world, could maintain his record of 19.32 seconds for 200 meters for the length of a mile it would take him 155.46 seconds to complete.
There is no world record for the 8 mile run. It is not an official event recognized by the IAAF. I'm not even aware that the event is raced enough to have any significant representative world best. If you are not familiar with track speak... No one races it, so no one cares.
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 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.
AnswerKenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia holds the world record in the 5000 meters (3.1 miles), 12:37.35. The IAAF no longer keeps track of events measured in English units with the exception of the mile run.
The men's world record for the two mile run is held by Daniel Komen of Kenya. His time was 7:58. 61. For women the record is 8:58. 58 which is held by Meseret Defar from Ethiopia.
The world record for the men's mile is 3:43.13 held by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco.