This is mostly due to the few 3000m races that are run, as well as the lack of training specifically for it, as it is not an Olympic event, nor a World Championship event.
Are you including Komen’s record? He ran back to back 3:40s!
No -- "worldwide" pretty much means the rest of the world.
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