3 minutes 43 seconds
Houram El Gourogge
The world record for the fastest mile on a bike is held by Thomas Dekker of the Netherlands, with a time of 3 minutes and 18.4 seconds, set in 2004.
Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco holds the fastest mile in 3:43.13
The fastest mile ever run is 3:43.13 by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco in 1999. The fastest women's mile is 4:12:86 run by Svetlana Masterkova of Russia on August 14, 1996.
The 800m is the metric equivalent of the half mile. The world record is 1:41.01 held by David Rudisha of Kenya.
Own is slang for winning it, calling it, doing it, accomplishing it, getting props for it.So the person who ran the fastest mile or 'owns the fastest mile is:Men- World record in the mile is 3:43.13, set by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco on July 7, 1999. Women- World record is 4:12.56 by Svetlana Masterkova of Russia, set on August 14, 1996
Hicham El Guerrouj
Alan Webb
The fastest time for the mile run is 3:43.13, by Hicham El Guerrouj in Rieti, Italy on June 7, 1999
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Mile+world+record In case that link is too hard to follow, the world record for the mile was set by the great Hicham EL Guerouj of Morocco. On July 7th, 1999, he ran the mile in 3:43.12. That's right. He averaged about 55 second per lap.
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.
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