LONDON (AP) – British runner Josh Kerr ran 3 minutes, 42.66 seconds to break the long-standing men’s mile world record at a Diamond League meet in London on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Kerr broke Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj’s mark of 3 minutes, 43.13 seconds, set in Rome in 1999, and the Edinburgh native then set off on a lap of honor at London Stadium.<\/p>\n
Kerr, 28, was so dominant Saturday that he finished just over three seconds clear of American Yared Nuguse in 3:45.69.<\/p>\n
The crowd support as he closed in on the record was “just incredible,” Kerr told the BBC.<\/p>\n
“It was just me, my shoes and the track,” he said. “I was absolutely deaf in that last 110 meters.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t take my foot off the gas,” he continued, “but … I started to glide and I was like ‘Oh wow, this feels incredible.’ It’s incredible because I’m slowing down. So, I was like ‘I better get to the line.’ So, crossing the finish line, seeing 42-something — anything — was my goal, so it was great.”<\/p>\n
Kerr’s previous best time was 3:45.34 in 2024.<\/p>\n
He had targeted the mile race at the Diamond League meet as a main goal in a track season with neither Olympics nor world championships.<\/p>\n
The mile is not a championship event, yet it has iconic status in track history, with the four-minute barrier broken in 1954 by another British runner, Roger Bannister.<\/p>\n
Kerr was a silver medalist in the 1,500 meters at the 2024 Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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