i think so
i think so
the best non-doped female 1500 is probably 3:55ish. that would be a 4:12ish. sub 4 not gonna happen legally. not this century, not next.
Not without some crazy PED's, no. A sub 4:00 mile woman would need to be about a 1:50.0 800m runner I would guess. Jarmila Kratochvílová's 800m WR will be 30 years old in July. How many people remember that the second fastest women's 800m time is still the old WR that Kratochvílová broke, which was set in 1980. Only six women have run under 1:55.0. Five of these six times were run between 1976-1989. Svetlana Masterkova's mile WR of 4:12.56 will be 17 years old in August. The next fastest womens' mile time is over four seconds slower. I doubt I'll see a woman run under 4:10.0 in my lifetime (I'm 44).
What species?
It's already been done.
The WR for women in the 1000m I believe is 2:29, so that's the longest at 4 minute pace a woman has run. Maybe soon a woman will be able to run 3:00 for 1200m
The 1500 is contested a lot more than the mile. The women's WR in the 1500 is 3:50.46, which is a long ways from breaking 4 for the mile. If you eliminate the 1993 and 1997 Chinese games and eastern European performances from the 1980's, the WR would drop all the way to 3:55.30 and that mark is over 20 years old. If you want to talk about women breaking 4:00, you might as well talk about men breaking 3:30.
sub 4 no, but don't claim a woman cant already break 3:00 for the 1200. You do not know this. The 1000m is rarely contested, so don't pretend like the 2:29 is actually the fastest a woman could have gone over 1000m. Thats just stupid.
basically sub 4 mile, no
sub 3 1200m, quite likely
I wonder if Pamela Jelimo could have run a 3:00 1200 meters when she was in 1:54.01 800m shape? FWIW her 1500m PR is only 4:19.31.
Jelimo was very likely doped.
World record holder for women's mile is double Olympic winner Svetlanta Masterkova with a 4:12 effort.
That is a long way from four minutes.
Masterkova's career was ut short my tendon injury.