British runner Josh Kerr breaks world record for mile which stood for 27 years

Watch him do it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYi2f4ONEDg&t=180

What an incredible performance. I've seen a sub-4 mile in person. These guys are absolutely flying. All of them. And beats the pants off that field.

Splits (400m):

  400m: 55.3
  800m: 1:51.1 (56.8 second lap)
  1200m: 2:46.5 (55.4 second lap)
  1600m: 3:41.4 (54.9 second lap)
  Mile: 3:42.66

  100m: 13.8
  200m: 27.5 (13.7)
  300m: 41.0 (13.5)
  400m: 55.3 (14.3)
  500m: 1:09.3 (14.0)
  600m: 1:23.2 (13.9)
  700m: 1:37.0 (13.8)
  800m: 1:51.1 (14.1)
  900m: 2:05.1 (14.0)
  1000m: 2:18.8 (13.7)
  1100m: 2:32.6 (13.8)
  1200m: 2:46.5 (13.9)
  1300m: 3:00.3 (13.8)
  1400m: 3:14.0 (13.7)
  1500m: 3:27.7 (13.7)
  1600m: 3:41.4 (13.7)
  Mile: 3:42.66 (1.2 for the final 9.34m)

Official results at https://london.diamondleague.com/programme-results/

Unfortunately you can't link directly to the 1 mile results. Scroll down to the table, select "1 Mile Men", then select "Reports", then "Race Analysis" and/or "Race Analysis Graphical". That leads to these two PDFs (not sure these links are stable):

https://ps-cache.web.swisstiming.com/node/binaryData/ATH_PRO...

https://ps-cache.web.swisstiming.com/node/binaryData/ATH_PRO...

He had a special singlet designed and undoubtedly carbon shoes. Makes you wonder how much raw human potential has progressed vs just having better equipment and track surfaces?

Finally, some exciting news about a record-breaking achievement in human athleticism that deserves worthy attention for once, instead of more of the same AI news.

Congratulations to him!

Is this because most East Africans don’t really try to beat the mile (instead doing the 1500m) since there’s no money in it?