Data from Wikipedia.org/wiki/mile run. world record_progression Men's Times Athlete's Nationality 1965 France 1956 3.513 1967 3:511 US 1975 3510 1975 New Zealand 1979 1980 3:48.8 1981 3:48.53 1981 3:48.40 UK 1981 3:47.33 UK 1985 3:46.32 UK 1993 3:44.39 Algeria 19PP 3:43.13 Morocco Year Women's Times Athlete's Nationality 1967 4:37.0 UK 1968 4:36.8 Netherlands 1971 4:35.3 West Germany 1973 4:29.5 Faly 1977 4:23.8 Romania 1979 4:2209 Romania 1980 4:2168 US 1981 4:20.89 Soviet Union 1982 4: 18 08 US 1982 4: 17 64 Romania 1985 4:16 71 US 1989 4: 15.61 Romania 1996 4:12 56 Russia