What an incredible performance. I've seen a sub-4 mile in person. These guys are absolutely flying. All of them. And he beats the pants off that field.
Splits (400m):
400m: 55.3
800m: 1:51.1 (56.8 second lap)
1200m: 2:46.5 (55.4 second lap)
1600m: 3:41.4 (54.9 third lap)
Mile: 3:42.66
Unfortunately you can't link directly to the 1 mile results. Scroll down to the table, select "1 Mile Men", then select "Reports", then "Race Analysis" and/or "Race Analysis Graphical". That leads to these two PDFs (not sure these links are stable):
He had a special singlet designed and undoubtedly carbon shoes. Makes you wonder how much raw human potential has progressed vs just having better equipment and track surfaces?
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card_zero
The BBC headline writes it as "27-year mile world record", which works out at about one quarter inch per hour.
steele
Scottish too
davidw
What are the rules around pacers for this kind of thing? Are there separate records for with/without pacers?
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rvz
Finally, some exciting news about a record-breaking achievement in human athleticism that deserves worthy attention for once, instead of more of the same AI news.
Congratulations to him!
casey2
Are the guys in first and second just windbreaking for him or what's going on?
Very odd.
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lysace
In Swedish news reports they were careful to specify that it was the "English mile" (sic, ish?).
For clarity, the one that is used in UK, US and Liberia. It is exactly 1609.344 meters.
Watch him do it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYi2f4ONEDg&t=180
What an incredible performance. I've seen a sub-4 mile in person. These guys are absolutely flying. All of them. And he beats the pants off that field.
Splits (400m):
Splits (100m): Splits copied from https://xcancel.com/ChrisChavez/status/2078494868540637695Official results at https://london.diamondleague.com/programme-results/
Unfortunately you can't link directly to the 1 mile results. Scroll down to the table, select "1 Mile Men", then select "Reports", then "Race Analysis" and/or "Race Analysis Graphical". That leads to these two PDFs (not sure these links are stable):
https://ps-cache.web.swisstiming.com/node/binaryData/ATH_PRO...
https://ps-cache.web.swisstiming.com/node/binaryData/ATH_PRO...
He had a special singlet designed and undoubtedly carbon shoes. Makes you wonder how much raw human potential has progressed vs just having better equipment and track surfaces?
The BBC headline writes it as "27-year mile world record", which works out at about one quarter inch per hour.
Scottish too
What are the rules around pacers for this kind of thing? Are there separate records for with/without pacers?
Finally, some exciting news about a record-breaking achievement in human athleticism that deserves worthy attention for once, instead of more of the same AI news.
Congratulations to him!
Are the guys in first and second just windbreaking for him or what's going on?
Very odd.
In Swedish news reports they were careful to specify that it was the "English mile" (sic, ish?).
For clarity, the one that is used in UK, US and Liberia. It is exactly 1609.344 meters.
Disambiguation (not readily available in non-simple English wikipedia): https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile
Is this because most East Africans don’t really try to beat the mile (instead doing the 1500m) since there’s no money in it?