Josh Kerr smashes men’s mile world record that stood unbroken since 1999

Britain's Josh Kerr shattered the men's mile world record on Saturday, clocking three minutes, forty-two point sixty-six seconds at a Diamond League meet, France 24 reports. Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj held the previous record since nineteen ninety-nine, when he set it in Rome—a mark that remained unbroken for nearly three decades until Kerr's performance.

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