Kerr Shatters 27-Year Men's Mile World Record in London
LONDON — Britain's Josh Kerr broke the men's mile world record at the London Diamond League on Saturday, clocking 3:42.66 to take 0.47 seconds off the 27-year-old mark of 3:43.13 set by Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj in 1999, according to World Athletics.
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Sat, 29 August 2026 · 1 min read
LONDON — Britain's Josh Kerr broke the men's mile world record at the London Diamond League on Saturday, clocking 3:42.66 to take 0.47 seconds off the 27-year-old mark of 3:43.13 set by Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj in 1999, according to World Athletics.
Kerr, the 2023 world 1500m champion, produced the run at the Novuna London Athletics Meet before a packed home crowd at the capital's stadium. World Athletics confirmed the time as a new world record.
The meeting also produced a British win in the women's 800m, where Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson edged the Netherlands' Femke Bol in a tight finish, though her attempt on the long-standing 800m world record fell short, according to the BBC.
Kerr, 28, said after the race that he saw scope to go faster and vowed to carry the form into the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, the Glasgow 2026 organisers reported.
**Global Angle:** The mile, a blue-riband middle-distance event, had stood unbroken since 1999; Kerr's run is the first British men's mile world record in the event's modern era and reshapes the build-up to the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games.
**Sources:** Google News
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