No. It is slightly less than one mile. (0.932056788 miles to be exact).
1 mile = 1,609.3 meters (rounded)
No. 1500 meters is about .93 miles. 1600 meters would be closer to a mile.
A mile is slightly longer than 1500m.
A mile. A mile has 5280 feet while 1600 meters has 5249.3438 feet. A difference of 30.6562 feet.
1 Land mile = 1609.34 Meters 1 Nautical Mile = 1852 Meters The answer is 242.66 Meters
0.93 mile 1 mile = 1609.344 meters 1 meter = 0.00062 mile
In the Olympics, the middle distance race is 1500 meters, which is 0.932 miles. The "metric mile" is 1600 meters, only slightly less than a mile, which would be 1609.344 meters.
.37.5 of a mile
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)
It is a bit more than 1/3 mile (0.35 miles).
A nautical mile is a longer measurement for distance than a mile. A nautical mile is equivalent to 1,852 meters while a mile is equivalent to 1,609.344 meters.
One mile is greater that a kilometer. One mile is 1.6 kilometers. In the olympics there is no 1600 run (one mile) there is only the 1500 (with is one and a half kilometers, only one hundred meters less than a mile).