Talk:Mile run

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Why are the two examples of men and women runner at the bottom both white and from Britain? Seems kind of odd/biased towards this country? 38.88.5.50 (talk) 21:48, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Just commenting, not defending (I didn't put in the pictures and we are limited to what is available in the wiki library, this is just how wikipedia works): Men) El Guerrouj is already pictured above in the article. Ngeny essentially got on the list by finishing second to El Guerrouj and never was on top, kind of inappropriate to put him there. OK, maybe someone could put Morcelli in, but frankly the picture on his page doesn't look that good. Feel free to edit it in if you think it is better, or discuss here. Cram is 4th on the list and held the record for a decade, though his is not an action photo. Women) Masterkova only has a beauty photo, no action photo in the wikipedia library. The others that follow her don't have pictures. O'Sullivan is the first one on the list to have a decent photo. And she is Irish, not a Brit . . . Trackinfo (talk) 16:35, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Oceania record

I'm posing this for Montel, who monitors this page. Nick Willis ran 3:51.61 in Boston see here. I don't know what kind of ratification for an Oceana area indoor record might be. Should we post this as pending? Trackinfo (talk) 02:41, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi Trackinfo. Oceania Athletics Association publishs the current list of ratified area records just on 1 January of each year. When an Area Record has been ratified, the Oceania Association informs the athlete’s National Federation and the IAAF. IAAF lists Willis' time now as an Oceanian record, see . So it's supposed to be ratified. Montell 74 (talk) 07:38, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

So just how long is a mile ?

Before we discuss why the IAAF gets this wrong, can we at least have a source showing that they do get in wrong? Can the person who added this please provide a source? Or someone else. 91.125.21.84 (talk) 12:20, 11 March 2017 (UTC)skennett

"exactly 1,609.344 metres, but considered by the IAAF to be 1,609.32 metres". Huh ? Where do they get 1,609.32 ? Assuming they run on a 400 metre track, do they pull the start line back 9.?? metres before the finish line i.e. before the first turn ? This article needs to discuss the issues of running non-metric events on metric tracks. IRcbutcher (talk) 11:19, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

I don't know where they get to round it to 1609.32. I use 1609.35, the rounding error to the disfavor of the athlete. But to answer your question, when a mile run is conducted on the current standard 400 meter track, yes they do have a start line 9.35 meters before the common finish line, or on many tracks approximately at the point of the triangle markings of the beginning of the 4x400 relay passing zone. To properly give quarter mile splits, they cascade 1/4 the distance to the finish line on each successive lap. On legacy quarter mile (440 yard) tracks they can still use even laps, but there are very few quarter mile tracks in existence and even fewer of them ever in use by elite competitions. Trackinfo (talk) 01:54, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

I've removed the 1609.32 metres as unsourced. Well spotted, don't know how I missed it for so long. --NSH001 (talk) 16:02, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

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Lack of sourcing

The sourcing for the record times in this article is atrocious. Some tables have no sources at all (e.g., Indoor and Outdoor records for Men and Women, Season's best), some tables have a partially used column for sources (e.g., Boys top 25), some have a completely empty column for sources (e.g., Girls top 25), and some have a reference for the table as a whole, but the reference access date is wrong and the table does not agree with the cited source (e.g., Top 25 Men's indoor: the prose says it is "Correct as of March 2019", but het ref access date is Feb 10, 2018, and the ref lists the #1 time as "3:48.45 Hicham EL GUERROUJ 14 SEP 1974" but our table lists "3:47.01 Yomif Kejelcha 3 March 2019" ) Meters (talk) 23:23, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

feet vs yards?

History section starts with: "Although a statute mile today is equal to a length of 5,280 feet, the distance of the English mile gained its current definition of 1,760 yards through a statute of the Parliament of England in 1593."
What does this mean? It was measured in feet, but now in yards? Because 5280 feet is exactly 1760 yards. And, actually, source to that [3] (Britannica), does not mention yards at all and has 5280 feet as well. 46.132.3.220 (talk) 12:16, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

• The statute of 1593 specifically says, "That is to saye, a Myle to conteyne Eight Furlonges, and everie Furlonge to conteyne Fortie Lugges or Poles, and every Lugg or Pole to conteyne Sixtene Foote and Halfe." therefore a statute mile is defined as eight furlongs, each of 660 feet, and one mile is therefore 5,280 feet. an undated statute of Edward I, believed to date from 1304, states that, "Twelve Inches make a Foot; Three Feet make a Yard." so the answer to your question is that a mile was defined as 5,280 feet, but this can be expressed as 1,760 yards. which means the article, as written, is wrong. the mile has never had a definition of 1,760 yards. the conversion to metric is defined by British Standard 350, which stipulates that 1 inch = 0.0254 metres, which means that 1 mile equals 1609.344 metres.Cottonshirtτ 04:36, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

flashing images in visual media

In the UK, where I live, there is legislation concerning the rate or persistence of flashing or blinking images in visual media such as television, cinema, and video playback, both in program content and in advertising. there are guidelines for this, rules about warnings being given in advance, and an Ombudsman to make sure that companies abide by the relevant code. I do not have the technical expertise to determine whether the video in this article actually breaches that code, but I do ask whether the editor who put it there even considered that such material can trigger seizures in some folk. I do not personally have epilepsy, but I find this article to be essentially unreadable as a consequence of the annoying distraction caused by this video, that cannot even be turned off. If you are not actually looking at it, it is essentially a flashing light in your peripheral vision. I also question the encyclopedic value of the content. it is just six anonymous unidentifiable persons running down a road. what does that add, exactly, to the readers historical perspective on the mile? at the very least this video should have an option to turn it off, or it should be linked to in the same way as every other video on Wikipedia so that the reader can choose to watch it if they want. being forced to tolerate this annoyance does not feel very democratic or polite to me. Cottonshirtτ 04:42, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

I have removed it. ---- Frans Fowler (talk) 13:34, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

References

1500m Split Paragraph

There was a recently added paragraph 1500m about splits being taken during full mile race. I have very rarely seen 1500m splits discussed until Kerr's national record today. It seems to add very little to the topic of the Mile Run as a whole and serves only as a fun fact about the most recent world record. I think this paragraph should be removed, but I'm not an experienced editor so I'd like some input. ~2026-40205-25 (talk) 18:34, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Area records

Is the Area for area records determined by the (claimed?) nationality of the runner or the location of the run? -- SGBailey (talk) 15:16, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

The area/continent of the athlete. --Xymph (talk) 18:32, 21 July 2026 (UTC)