LONDON\u00a0\u2014\u00a0British runner Josh Kerr ran the mile in 3 minutes and 42.66 seconds to break the longstanding men\u2019s world record at a Diamond League meet in London on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Kerr broke Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj\u2019s mark of 3 minutes and 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 was so dominant on Saturday that he finished more than three seconds clear of American Yared Nuguse in 3:45.69.<\/p>\n
The crowd support as he closed in on the record was \u201cjust incredible,\u201d Kerr told the BBC.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just me, my shoes and the track,\u201d he said. \u201cI was absolutely deaf in that last 110 meters.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t take my foot off the gas,\u201d he continued, \u201cbut … I started to glide and I was like \u2018oh wow this feels incredible.\u2019 It\u2019s incredible because I\u2019m slowing down. So, I was like \u2018I better get to the line.\u2019 So, crossing the finish line, seeing 42-something \u2014 anything \u2014 was my goal, so it was great.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old Kerr\u2019s 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 championships event yet 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":"LONDON\u00a0\u2014\u00a0British runner Josh Kerr ran the mile in 3 minutes and 42.66 seconds to break the longstanding men\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[162037,162035,2194,162034,48,52,51,6547,47,50,49,55984,2663,162036,5463,162038,10012,595,9018,2829,2662],"class_list":["post-403934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-british-runner-josh-kerr","tag-diamond-league-meet","tag-goal","tag-josh-kerr","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-london","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-meter","tag-mile","tag-mile-record","tag-minute","tag-moroccan-hicham-el-guerrouj","tag-olympics","tag-saturday","tag-second","tag-track","tag-world-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}