Hicham El Guerrouj 1 Mile 3:48.45 World Indoor Record 1997 Gent

Gent (Belgium), international meet, 12 February 1997. 1. 3:48.45 Hicham El Guerrouj MAR World Indoor Record 2. 3:54.13 Christoph Impens BEL 3. 3:58.49 Nadir Bosch FRA 4. 4:02.25 Giuseppe D’Urso ITA 5. 4:02.35 Mateo Canellas ESP 6. 4:03.08 Matthew Yates GBR dnf Antonio Jimenez ESP Hicham El Guerrouj, 22, was in a tremedeous form during the winter 1997 and set his lifetime indoor best during that period, although it was only the beginning of a dominance over middle distances that lasted until 2004. In Stuttgart, he broke the 1500m world indoor record in an epic race against Haile Gebrselasie (3:31.18 vs 3:32.39, both under Noureddine Morceli’s previous mark of 3:34.16). Then days later, he made a successful attempt against the old mark set in 1983 by Eamonn Coghlan (3:49.78). On 9 February 2019, Yomif Kejelcha missed El Guerrouj’s time by only 0.01 in New York City. The 21 years old Ethiopian made a second attempt on 3 March in Boston and in 3:47.01, he finally broke a world record that was set before he was born! Pace: Peter Stubbs AUS and Rüdiger Stenzel GER. Intermediate times (cell times) : 200m 27.23 Stubbs, 27.9 El G 400m 55.54 Stubbs, 56.0 El G 600m 1:23.97 Stubbs, 1:24.5 El G 800m 1:52.75 Stubbs, 1:53 El G 1000m 2:21.43 Stenzel, 2:21.6 El G 1200m 2:49.84 El G 1400m 3:18.60 El G 1500m 3:33.03 El G (official 3:33.01, after photofinish screen) Mile 3:48.48 (official 3:48.45)