Gunder Hägg

male, deceased (2004)
Middle distance runner, world record, swedish, athlete, runner, Malmö…Worldrecordprogressionforthemilerun, progression of the Mile
Gunder Hägg was a Swedish runner and multiple world record breaker of the 1940s. Gunder Hägg set over a dozen middle distance world records at ev...
Filbert Bayi

Filbert Bayi

male, 56 years old
Athlete at the 1978 Commonwealth Games, Middle distance runner, middle-distance runner, Olympic competitor for Tanzania, Worldrecordprogressionforthemilerun, 1500 metres…Athlete at the 1980 Summer Olympics, the mile
Filbert Bayi (born June 23, 1953) was a Tanzanian middle-distance runner of the 1970s who set the world records for 1500 metres in 1974 and the...

Thomas Conneff

male
Irish, aaa, Travers Island, American middle distance runner, Amateur Athletic Association, Stamford Bridge…world’s record for the fastest mile, Worldrecordprogressionforthemilerun
Thomas Conneff was an amateur American runner who held the world’s record for the fastest mile (4:15 3/5) from 1895 to 1911. He was an Irish-born ru...

Walter George

male
British, British middle distance runner, Worldrecordprogressionforthemilerun, Walter G. George, mile record
Walter G. George (9 September 1858 - 1943) was a nineteenth century British runner who after setting numerous world records as an amateur, went...

William Cummings

male
Scottish, British middle distance runner, Worldrecordprogressionforthemilerun, William J. Cummings, record for the mile, Walter George
William J. Cummings (born June 10, 1858) was a Scottish professional runner who held the record for the mile in the 19th century and is perhaps...

Fred Bacon

male
British, British middle distance runner, aaa, Amateur Athletic Association, Worldrecordprogressionforthemilerun, Colchester, Essex…world record for the mile
Fred E. Bacon was a late-19th century British runner who won numerous running titles and briefly held the amateur world record for the mile. Born...

William Lang

male
British, British middle distance runner, scot, Welshman, Worldrecordprogressionforthemilerun, mile record
William Lang (born about 1838) was a professional British runner who set world records in numerous running events in the 1860s including a mile...
John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones

male
Cornell University alumni, Worldrecordprogressionforthemilerun, International Association of Athletics Federations, American middle distance runner, runner, American…Athlete at the 1912 Summer Olympics, world records in the mile
John Paul Jones (born about 1890) was an American track athlete who set several world records in the mile, including the first mile record to be...
Norman Taber

Norman Taber

male, deceased (1952)
record in the mile, Walter George, Olympic competitor for the United States, Worldrecordprogressionforthemilerun, 1912 Summer Olympics, track and field athlete…Athlete at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Norman Stephen Taber (September 3, 1891 - July 15, 1952) was an American middle distance runner. He was the first amateur runner to surpass Walter...