This is slightly awkward to answer as the mile isn't a "standard" athletic distance nowadays; there's no mile event in the Olympic games for example.
The current record holder is Hicham El Guerrouj who ran a mile in 3:43.13 in Rome in 1999.
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The fastest mile ever run in Colorado is 3:53.60, achieved by Alan Webb in 2007.
The current world record for the fastest 3.1 mile run (5K) is 12 minutes and 37 seconds, set by Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda in 2020.
3 minutes 43.13 seconds by Moroccan runner Hicham El Guerrouj
The current world record for the fastest mile is held by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco, with a time of 3 minutes and 43.13 seconds, set in 1999.
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