hicham el guerrouj has the world record for the fastest mile.
hicham el guerrouj has the world record for the fastest mile.
who has the world record for the fastest mile?
hicham el guerrouj
coghlan was nicknamed "the chairman of the boards" because of his success on indoor tracks. he won 52 of his 70 races at 1,500 m and 1 mile from 1974 to 1987. he set the world record for the indoor mile run with a time of 3.52.6 at the san diego sports arena in san diego in 1979. he lowered this to 3:50.6 in 1981 and then bettered it to 3:49.78 in 1983 at new jersey's meadowlands arena indoor arena. his record stood until 1997 when it was broken by morocco's hicham el guerrouj in a time of 3:48.45. it is still the fourth fastest indoor mile of all time and is still, more than 30 years on, a european record. coghlan's 1983 time was the fastest mile ever run in the united states until 10 june 2007, when daniel kipchirchir komen ran 3:48.28 outdoors in eugene, oregon. it remains one of only four sub-3:50 miles run on american soil. by and large, coghlan was more successful at indoor running notwithstanding a later world title in 1983 over 5,000 meters.
eamonn coghlan
a number of world records in egg-and-spoon racing are held by new yorker and serial record-holder ashrita furman; these include, as published by guinness world records, fastest 100 m egg-and-spoon race (19.39 seconds); fastest 100 m egg-and-spoon race while holding the spoon in the mouth (25.13 seconds); fastest mile egg-and-spoon race (7 minutes, 8 seconds); fastest mile egg-and-spoon race holding the spoon with both hands (8 minutes, 5 seconds); and fastest mile egg-and-spoon race holding the spoon in the mouth (9 minutes, 29 seconds). in 1990 a runner completed the london marathon in three hours forty-seven minutes while carrying a dessert spoon with an uncooked egg balanced upon it.
egg-and-spoon race