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 world record for the quarter mile in track and field is 9.58 seconds, set by Usain Bolt in 2009.
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 world record for a woman's two mile race is 8 minutes and 58.58 seconds, 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.