How many runners in history have run a sub 4:00 mile and sub 2:15:00 marathon?

I'd be interested to see the equivalent women's group which would be about
sub 4:05 1500 and
sub 2:30 marathon.

Really? That seems wrong given that 3 women have run under 2:15 and no woman has even come close to a 4 min mile.

Given Dixon ran his times back in the mid 70s to early 80s I'd argue that his times rival those of Kipchoge's relative to two completely different tine periods.

The tracks and shoes were worse when he ran running. Plus nobody else was running 12:50 let alone sub 13:00 back then.

to help push him along

A few Brits have done it that I can think of

Johnny Mellor, Scott Overall, Ross Millington, Matt Clowes and Eamonn Martin.

Johnny's mara pb is 2.10.03, so he might break into the prestigious sub4/sub2.10 club soon

Seems about right to me. Men's and women's WRs get closer together the longer the distance. If the 100k was a competitive event, we'd probably see times get even closer.

There was a time before 1954 where they thought a sub 4:00 mile was impossible.

Certainly there was a time after that where people didn't think the same person could run sub 4:00 mile and sub 2:15.

Do we now think it's possible for a person to run a 3:43 mile and a 2:01 marathon?

Genzebe Dibaba.

I for sure thought Hall would be in this exclusive club at least by way of a 1500 but shockingly not the case.

Helen Obiri.
Meseret Defar.
Gelete Burka.
Elvan Abeylegesse.'
Mimi Belete.
Sonia O'Sullivan.
Jo Pavey.
Liz McColgan.
Lilia Shobokhova.
Wang Jungxia.
Elana Meyer.
Stephanie Twell.
Grete Waitz.

And Geoff Smith, who was 2nd behind Dixon at NYC, was a 3:55 miler himself.

Your 2nd sentence, you must be discussing swimming. Freestyle 50m splash & dash to 1500m freestyle, women w.r. by percentage gets closer to men, event by event. We don't see that 100m dash, T&F to Marathon. Men Marathon w.r. is more than 10% faster than women Marathon w.r.

I definitely think that watching Wagwa try to do it in the 1980 NYC Marathon was instructive to some of us thinking that the skill set to run sub-4 and run a great marathon were completely different. Until dixon did it in 1983.

Paul Cummings (RIP) did this also.
1500 meters: 3:37.6
Mile: 3:56.4
Marathon: 2:11:31

Malmo is totally right on this. Dick Quax ran 3:36/3:56/2:10:47 prior to Dixon’s marathon debut. Also, anyone with a brain would have known that Lasse Viren was capable of running well under 4 and considerably faster than his 2:13:11 marathon (which was run the day after winning 5k gold, having already won the 10k, when there were still 10k heats, for 5th place in the 1976 Olympic marathon).

I agree with this analysis. Dixon was a 1972 Olympic medalist in the 1500 and his best 1500 from 1974 was about 1.5 seconds off the World Record. He was ranked in the top three in the World three times in the 1500.

His Marathon best on a tough course was less than a minute from the World Record at the time.

Steve Bolt did.

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"He was the first of 11 runners in the world to break the four-minute mile and run a marathon under two hours and fifteen minutes."