Cleave Books World Records for One Mile Race (Men) Year Date Place Athlete Nationality Time 1913 May 31st Cambridge, USA John Paul Jones USA 4m 14.4s 1915 July 16th Cambridge USA Norman Taber USA 4m 12.6s 1923 August 23rd Stockholm Paavo Nurmi Finland 4m 10.4s 1931 October 4th Paris Jules Ladoumegue France 4m 9.2s 1933 July 15th Princeton, USA Jack Lovelock New Zealand 4m 7.6s 1934 May 16th Princeton, USA Glenn Cunningham USA 4m 6.8s 1937 August 28th Motspur Park, UK Sydney Wooderson UK 4m 6.4s 1942 July 1st Gothenburg Gunder Hagg Sweden 4m 6.2s 1942 September 4th Stockholm Gunder Hagg Sweden 4m 4.6s 1943 July 1st Gothenburg Arne Andersson Sweden 4m 2.6s 1944 July 18th Malmo, Sweden Arne Andersson Sweden 4m 1.6s 1945 July 17th Malmo, Sweden Gunder Hagg Sweden 4m 1.4s 1954 May 6th Oxford Roger Bannister UK 3m 59.4s 1954 June 21st Turku, Finland John Landy Australia 3m 58.0s 1957 July 19th London Derek Ibbotson UK 3m 57.2s 1958 August 6th Dublin Herb Elliott Australia 3m 54.5s 1962 January 27th Wanganui, NZ Peter Snell New Zealand 3m 54.4s 1964 November 17th Auckland Peter Snell New Zealand 3m 54.1s 1965 June 9th Rennes Michel Jazy France 3m 53.6s 1966 July 17th Berkeley, USA Jim Ryun USA 3m 51.3s 1967 June 23rd Bakersfield, USA Jim Ryun USA 3m 51.1s 1975 May 17th Kingston, Jamaica Filbert Bayi Tanzania 3m 51.0s 1975 August 12th Gothenburg John Walker New Zealand 3m 49.4s 1979 July 17th Oslo Sebastian Coe UK 3m 49.0s 1980 July 1st Oslo Steve Ovett UK 3m 48.8s 1981 August 19th Zurich Sebastian Coe UK 3m 48.53s 1981 August 26th Koblenz Steve Ovett UK 3m 48.40s 1981 August 28th Brussels Sebastian Coe UK 3m 47.33s 1985 July 27th Oslo Steve Cram UK 3m 46.32s 1993 September 5th Stuttgart Noureddine Morceli Algeria 3m 44.39s Go to the top World Records Index