


You don’t have to be an elite to recognize how iconic these 1,600 meters are. And with the Olympic Trials happening right now in Eugene, OR, the timing is ripe for even more records. high school indoor mile record running more than two seconds under four minutes. This February, Hobbs Kessler, a 17-year-old from Ann Arbor, MI, broke the U.S.

Last summer, Olli Hoare and Joe Klecker became the first two people to ever run a sub-four-minute mile in the state of Colorado. There’s something exhilarating about one single, solitary mile.Įver since Roger Bannister famously ran the first sub-four minute mile back in 1954, athletes are constantly pushing the boundaries of this distance: In February 2020, Elle Purrier set the American indoor mile record, breaking the American indoor mile record after 38 years.
