2 miles - 7:58.61 - Daniel Komen (KEN) - July 19,1997 Hechtel
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The fastest 2-mile ever recorded is 7:58.61 by Kenyan athlete Daniel Komen in 1997.
Sub 8 minutes because the 1500m world record holder ran 2 consecutive miles in under 4 minutes each
The fastest mile ever run in Colorado is 3:53.60, achieved by Alan Webb in 2007.
The fastest recorded mile walk is 5 minutes and 31 seconds, achieved by Tom Bosworth of Great Britain in 2017.
William Tecumseh Sherman Jackson, 1890, emerged from Amherst College in Massachusetts as a half mile sprinter.
Joshua Jones was 18 with a mile and a half time of 6:31 in 2011. This is by far the fastest mile and 1/2 time recorded ever. His coach Jay Chagnon had this to say, "it was a really fast time and i am pround of all the hard work he has done." In that race Jones crushed his competition, with second place being Johnathan Butts nearly 2 min behind
The fastest recorded quarter mile from stopped was driven in the 1970's in a rocket car. The driver would have to lie flat to remain concious, although blood would still come out of his ears and sometimes other orifices due to such high G-forces endured. The fastest recorded time is 3.215 seconds.