The world record for swimming a mile is held by Sun Yang of China. Sun's time is 14 minutes 31 seconds, set in 2012.
No woman as ever finshed a mile.
The world record for the fastest mile on a bike is held by Thomas Dekker of the Netherlands, with a time of 3 minutes and 18.4 seconds, set in 2004.
The 1500 meter swim, which is approximately a mile, record is 14:34.56 by Grant Hackett from Australia. This record, along with other swimming records, can be found at- http://www.vilacom.net/swimming/men.php Actually, to approximate swimming a mile, one would have to swim 1609.34 meters -- that's 109.34 meters more than the 1500 meter swim or 2.19 more lengths of a 50 meter pool. (1 meter = 3.2808399 feet)
No one. The world record is 3:43
It depends on the size of the swimming pools. If the pool is small, you need to swim many laps to get to 1/4 mile. 1/4 mile is 440 yards.
a mile in the air and 1 mile slideing it was on a lake and was recorded in the 2006 world record book
The 800m is the metric equivalent of the half mile. The world record is 1:41.01 held by David Rudisha of Kenya.
The current women's world record for the 1600 meters (1 mile) is 4:12.33, set by Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands on July 9, 2019.
At the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan Hackett finished the 1500 meter in 14:34.5; smashing the previous world record. This was 2 1/2 months after his 21st birthday.
1609.34 meters is 1 mile. How many lengths to the nearest would complete 1 mile in a 25 meter swimming pool
Hicham El Guerrouj
I believe Gaylon Smith ran a 4.04 mile in or around 1972.