# After 27 years, there's a new record in the mile

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Tags:** olympic-sports-track\
**Created:** [July 18, 2026, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-27-years-theres-a-new-record-in-the-mile/1031770 "2026-07-18T15:37:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-27-years-theres-a-new-record-in-the-mile/1031770/2 "2026-07-18T16:15:58Z")

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That’s one of those quaint records and rarely run races that seems only to matter in the anglosphere.

ETA: this comment should not take away from the effort to break such a record, of course that’s a great achievement. But I as a metric person always try to translate the time for a mile into a time for a 1,500m race, because that’s how I can assess it.

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