state by state 1 mile records?

Jogger to be wrote:

Does anyone have proof/link about the GA sub 4 mile?? Being from Georgia, I have always heard (from multiple creditable coaches/athletes) that no one has run under 4 in the state of Georgia. Just curious.

I saw Morceli do it. IAAF Grand Prix Meet held in Olympic Stadium a few weeks before the '96 Olympic Trials.

A correction to your list. The 3:50.7 run by Morceli in Birmingham was in England, not Alabama.

I seem to be a few minutes late on everything today.

OK, this is as good as I can get it. I'm pretty sure about those with dates after them in the format d mmm yy.

Alabama:

Alaska:

Arizona: 3:56.4 Paul Cummings 16 Mar 74

Arkansas: 3:49.89i Bernard Lagat 11 Feb 05

California: 3:50.6i Eamonn Coghlan 20 Feb 81

Colorado:

Connecticut: 3:58.46i Andrew Bumbalough 2 Feb 08

Delaware:

Florida: 3:57.52 Mark Carroll 22 Jan 99

Georgia: 3:50.86 Noureddine Morceli 18 May 96

Hawaii:

Idaho: 3:59.87 Jacinto Navarette 13 Feb 87

Illinois: 3:54.11 William Tanui 25 Jul 98

Indiana: 3:54.48 Marcus O'Sullivan 25 Jun 93

Iowa: 3:51.71 Alan Webb 28 Apr 07

Kansas: 3:53.3 Rick Wohlhuter 31 May 75

Kentucky: 3:57.2i Filber Bayi 12 Feb 77

Louisiana: 3:57.1 Dave Wottle 9 Jun 73

Maine: 3:56.82 Jason Pyrah 4 Jul 98

Maryland: 3:54.93i Dick Buerkle 13 Jan 78

Massachussetts: 3:53.18i Laban Rotich 29 Jan 05

Michigan: 3:55.87 Kevin Sullivan 10 Jun 00

Minnesota: 3:55.52 Ray Flynn 10 Aug 85

Mississippi:

Missouri: 3:55.4i Niall O'Shaughnessy 28 Jan 77

Montana:

Nebraska: 3:55.07i Bernard Lagat 9 Feb 02

Nevada:

New Hampshire: 4:00.9 Jack McDonald (Dartmouth Relays)

New Jersey: 3:49.78i Eamonn Coghlan 27 Feb 83

New Mexico: (i) 3:59.4 ? Wilson Waigwa 3 Feb 79 (Indoor, meet with auto timing, hundredths unknown)

New York: 3:52.74 Jim Spivey 21 Jul 91

North Carolina: 3:57.3 Ken Popejoy 12 May 73

North Dakota: 3:59.7 Mike Slack 26 Jan 74

Ohio: 3:57.15 Tom Byers 8 May 83

Oklahoma: 3:57.0i Wilson Waigwa 15 Feb 75

Oregon: 3:48.28 Daniel Kipchirchir Komen 10 Jun 07

Pennsylvania: 3:52.26 Steve Scott 30 May 81

Rhode Island: 3:53.42i Frank O'Mara 1 Feb 87

South Carolina: 3:57.83 Alan Webb

South Dakota:

Tennessee: 3:53.79i Sydney Maree Johnson City 17 Jan 86 (??)

Texas: 3:54.20i Steve Scott Houston 16 Feb 80 (??)

Utah: 3:57.23 Doug Padilla 21 May 83

Vermont:

Virginia: 3:54.41i Noureddine Morceli 9 Feb 92

Washington: 3:56.00i Steve Scherer 2 Feb 08

West Virgina:

Wisconsin: 3:56.38 Matt Tegenkamp 06 May 06

Wyoming:

Wilson Waigwa ran 3:58.3 in Charleston on 12 Jun 76, but no one seems to know what state it is in, WV or SC or other.

The ?? after Tennessee and Texas are because pela's list doesn't include them. I'm guessing they are on oversized tracks, so he didn't put them in.

I'm curious about the NJ record by Coghlan. I looked on Wikipedia and it said he ran it at an indoor meet at the Meadowlands indoor arena. I have lived in NJ (in a town in the Meadowlands) for years and I have never heard of an indoor meet being held there. Especially one of indoor mile world record setting quality. Anyone care to share any info about the event? Sorry for my ignorance.

Last I heard no one's gone under 4:00 in Bama. David Kimani got close years ago, but he went out in 2:07 and killed his chances, although he did finish in 1:54. He split 3:52 on a DMR leg but those don't count.

As far as I know the record is 4:01 and change.

Those are results from the 2000 Mobile Meet of Champions. Kimani ran 4:01.46. I don't think he was even leading the race at the mile mark.

Either way, I'll submit the Alabama soil record as 4:01.46.

I was surprised to see Brian Pope listed as Mississippi's all-time mile leader. I went to the Ole Miss website. Here are the all-time Ole Miss statistics. If Pope holds the state record--and he might--he must have set his time in an all-comers meet, after he graduated.

MILE

4:03.87 Doug Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1985

4:06.44 Michael George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1995

4:07.03 Barnabas Kirui . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2009

4:07.07 Larry Henderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1997

4:07.0h Brian Pope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1986

Back in 2002 when I first compiled this list there were only 251 US sub 4:00s. Now we're up to 328. As some have guessed, it's based on where each athlete graduated from high school. This sometimes causes confusion - for example, Wheating's Kimball Union Academy is located in NH so they get the credit rather than VT where he apparently resided.

Here's the list updated through June 7 (Evan Jager #328). Please reply with any updates/corrections.

All US sub 4-minute milers by state

based on where they graduated from high school

328 total

CA (46)-Brian Abshire, AJ Acosta, Kyle Alcorn, Dan Aldridge, Ed Arriola, Frank Assumma, Jeff Atkinson, Scott Bauhs, Brandon Bethke, Richie Boulet, Don Bowden, Andy Clifford, Michael Coe, Ron Cornell, Paul Cummings, Christian Cushing-murray, Tim Danielson, Marc Davis, Bob Day, Joe Fabris, German Fernandez, Ernie Freer, Mark Fricker, John Garrison, Matt Giusto, Paul Greer, Morgan Groth, Ronnie Harris, Thom Hunt, Gordon Johnson, Harold Kuphaldt, Gary Lewis, Doug Padilla, Kyle Alcorn, John Rankin, Mark Schilling, Steve Scott, Bob Seaman, Tom Smith, Jim Sorensen , Michael Stember, Brian Theriot, David Torrence, Greg Whiteley, Ray Wicksell, Jay Woods

NY (29)-Mark Belger, Elliott Blount, Barry Brown, Dick Buerkle, Matt Centrowitz, Ross Donoghue, Vince Draddy, Anthony Famiglietti, Jack Fath, Denis Fikes, John Gregorek, Marty Hemsley, Jason Jabaut, Brian Kivlan, Lopez Lomong, Charles Marsala, Craig Masback, Josh McDougal, Benny McIntosh, Charlie McMullen, Tom Nohilly, Don Paige, Karl Paranya, Bill Rathbun, Mike Stahr, Brad Sumner, Karl Thornton, John Trautmann, Mike Wyatt

OR (20)-Gary Barger, Bryan Berryhill, Dan Browne, Dyrol Burleson, Mark Feig, Keith Forman, Jim Grelle, Jamey Harris, Jim Howarth, Ken Martin, Bill McChesney, Michael McGrath, Mike Miller, Keith Munson, Dub Myers, Steve Prefontaine, Grant Robison, Galen Rupp, Steve Savage, Dave Wilborn

IL (19)-Scott Anderson, Tim Broe, Tom Brooks, Mark Deady, Mike Durkin, Darryl Frerker, Richie Harris, Evan Jager, Lee LaBadie, Tom O'Hara, Stephen Pifer, Ken Popejoy, Don Sage, Len Sitko, Eddie Slowikowski, Jim Spivey, Dan Strackeljahn, Dorian Ulrey, Rick Wohlhuter

TX (16)-Darren Brown, Alan Culpepper, Reed Fischer, Paul Geis, Gawain Guy, Todd Harbour, Eric Henry, Len Hilton, Jason Lunn, Leonel Manzano, Aaron Ramirez, Reuben Reina, Richard Romo, Matt Taylor, Jon Warren, Dave Wittman

WA (16)-Austin Abbott, Laef Barnes, Mike Blackmore, Scott Daggatt, Roscoe Divine, Eric Garner, Greg Gibson, Gary Gustafson, Jim Johnson, Buck Jones, Chris Katon, Chris Lukezic, John Quade, Rick Riley, Bruce Stirling, Karl Van Calcar

MI (15)-Liam Boylan-Pett , Brian Diemer, Jordan Disilets, Gerry Donakowski, Tom Duits, Dan Heikkinen, Brian Hyde, Earl Jones, Shane Knoll, Paul McMullen, Greg Meyer, Mike Michno, Derek Scott, Steve Sherer, Justin Switzer

OH (13)-Tom Byers, Ian Connor, Mark Dailey, Chris Estwanik, Steve Foster, Roosevelt Jackson, Bob Kennedy, Reggie McAfee, Rob Myers, Kevin Ryan, Bob Schul, Jeff See, Dave Wottle

NJ (12)-Jim Crawford, Brian Gallagher, Roger Jones, Rich Kenah, Michael Kerrigan, Marty Liquori, Jim McKeon, John Richardson, Cliff Sheehan, Mark Sivieri, Steve Slattery, Ron Speirs

PA (12)-Steve Ave, Sam Bair, John Baker, Greg Fredericks, Aaron Lanzel, Larry Mangan, Craig Miller, Jim Norris, Jerry Richey, Pat Traynor , Paul Vandegrift, Cary Weisiger

VA (12)-Ibrahim Aden, Bill Burke, Sam Gabremenian, Jim Hill, Kevin Johnson, Sharif Karie, Seneca Lassiter, Jason Long, Juris Luzins, Howell Michael, Clay Schwabe, Alan Webb

KS (10)-Christian Smith, Dwight Davis, Bill Dotson, Steve Fein, John Lawson, John Mason, Keith Palmer, Jim Ryun, Archie San Romani Jr., Ken Swenson

MN (10)-Sean Graham, Garrett Heath, Steve Holman, Jeff Jirele, Will Leer, Ted Nelson, Steve Plasencia, Mike Slack, Jake Watson, Luke Watson

WI (8)-Ben Gregory, Tim Hacker, Gabe Jennings, Ryan Kleimenhagen, Steve Lacy, Tommy Schmitz, Chris Solinsky, Mark Winzenried

MA (7)-Said Ahmed, Mark Coogan, Andy Downin, Jonathon Riley, Brad Schlapak, Darren Shearer, Ed Spinney

MO (7)-Jacob Boone, Michael Cox, Joe Falcon, Ray Hughes, Jason Pyrah, Seth Summerside, Matt Tegenkamp

CO (5)-Ted Castaneda, Adam Goucher, Charlie Gruber, Rick Musgrave, Maurice Smith

FL (5)-David Freeman, Tommy Fulton, Brian Jaeger, John Jefferson, Sean Jefferson

UT (5)-Wade Bell, Bryan Lindsay, Kyle Perry, Nate Robison, Jeremy Tolman

CT (4)-Richard Block, Kevin King, Steve Wheeler, Dan Wilson

ID (4)-Rick Bergesen, Jerald Jones, Nick Symmonds, Tom Von Ruden

IN (4)-Terry Brahm, Rudy Chapa, Jordan Fife, James Murphy

MD (4)-Matthew Centrowitz, Matt Holthaus, Dave Patrick, Bob Wheeler

NM (4)-Chuck Aragon, David Krummenacker, Dan Maas, George Young

IA (3)-Blake Boldon, Jerome Howe, Randy Wilson

LA (3)-Jeremy Huffman, Shannon Lemora, Ryan Travis

ME (3)-Matt Lane, Eric Nedeau, Ben True

NC (3)-Jim Beatty, Jack Bolas, Tony Waldrop

NH (3)-Russell Brown, Sean O'Brien, Andrew Wheating

RI (3)-Adam Dixon, Bruce Fischer, Phil Kane

AR (2)-Brian Baker, Daniel Lincoln

AZ (2)-Chuck LaBenz, Brandon Strong

HI (2)-Duncan Macdonald, Henry Marsh

OK (2)-Mike Manke, Larry Rose

SD (2)-Steve Heidenreich, Jeff Schemmel

TN (2)-Andrew Bumbalough, Bob Whelan

AL (1)-Steve Bolt

KY (1)-Bobby Curtis

MT (1)-Scott McGowan

ND (1)-Corey Imhels

NE (1)-Greg Carlberg

SC (1)-Terrance Herrington

WV (1)-Chris Fox

* Washington, DC (1)-Bob Lesko

* Ireland (1)-Shane Healy

* Kenya (1)- Bernard Lagat

* South Africa (1)-Sydney Maree

Zero - AK, DE, GA, MS, NV, VT, WY

mcgato wrote:

OK, this is as good as I can get it. I'm pretty sure about those with dates after them in the format d mmm yy.

Alabama:

Alaska:

Arizona: 3:56.4 Paul Cummings 16 Mar 74

Arkansas: 3:49.89i Bernard Lagat 11 Feb 05

etc, etc, etc, etc.

Wilson Waigwa ran 3:58.3 in Charleston on 12 Jun 76, but no one seems to know what state it is in, WV or SC or other.

The ?? after Tennessee and Texas are because pela's list doesn't include them. I'm guessing they are on oversized tracks, so he didn't put them in.

I have a similar list & believe we match now. The TX time was run on an oversized track in the old Astrodome and the TN mark was also oversized at ETSU. Waigwa's time was run in SC. I have Kimani's 4:01 that someone mentioned for AL.

I've added everyone else that broke 3:42.22 for the 1500. I'm just missing the high school/state and graduation year for a few. Anyone know where these guys went to high school? School, state, class of?

Greg Reynolds 1983 (year under 3:42.22)

Jim Luth 1982

Jim Gorman 1972

John Clark 1976

Jeff Jaynes 1985

jsully wrote:

I have a similar list & believe we match now. The TX time was run on an oversized track in the old Astrodome and the TN mark was also oversized at ETSU. Waigwa's time was run in SC. .

Pretty sure Waigwa's time was in Charelston WV a week after NCAA's. Tom Duits of Western Michigan and Steve Lacy of Wisconsin also ran.

Frizzle Fry wrote:

I'm curious about the NJ record by Coghlan. I looked on Wikipedia and it said he ran it at an indoor meet at the Meadowlands indoor arena. I have lived in NJ (in a town in the Meadowlands) for years and I have never heard of an indoor meet being held there. Especially one of indoor mile world record setting quality. Anyone care to share any info about the event? Sorry for my ignorance.

Olympic Invitational moved from MSG 78-79 or so.

Carl Lewis singing the Star Spangled Banner at the Vitalas Invitational is classic.

Manzano ran 3:55.29 in Missouri this year

I never went sub 4 for a mile but saw your thread where your taking 1500 times under 3:42.22, soooo I ran 3:41.3 in 1991, graduated from Billings Senior High, Billings Montana, 1983.....had to give Montana a lil more representation

Some updates to the list that I posted above, based on further info provided.

Alabama: 4:01.46 David Kimani 1 Apr 00

Florida: 3:57.52i Mark Carroll 22 Jan 99

Missouri: 3:55.29 Leonel Manzano 23 May 09

West Virgina: 3:58.3 Wilson Waigwa 12 Jun 76

Kind of odd that the fastest mile in Florida was run indoors. I think it was upper 70s outside when he did it.

The Waigwa info came from this thread on TFN:

http://mb.trackandfieldnews.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=4669

Regarding the list (below) posted from mcgato and others Are these the fastest miles recorded by all-comers in each US State, everyone agree, edits, additions? If so copy, edit and paste changes.

Alabama:

Alaska:

Arizona: 3:56.4 Paul Cummings 16 Mar 74

Arkansas: 3:49.89i Bernard Lagat 11 Feb 05

California: 3:50.6i Eamonn Coghlan 20 Feb 81

Colorado:

Connecticut: 3:58.46i Andrew Bumbalough 2 Feb 08

Delaware:

Florida: 3:57.52 Mark Carroll 22 Jan 99

Georgia: 3:50.86 Noureddine Morceli 18 May 96

Hawaii:

Idaho: 3:59.87 Jacinto Navarette 13 Feb 87

Illinois: 3:54.11 William Tanui 25 Jul 98

Indiana: 3:54.48 Marcus O'Sullivan 25 Jun 93

Iowa: 3:51.71 Alan Webb 28 Apr 07

Kansas: 3:53.3 Rick Wohlhuter 31 May 75

Kentucky: 3:57.2i Filber Bayi 12 Feb 77

Louisiana: 3:57.1 Dave Wottle 9 Jun 73

Maine: 3:56.82 Jason Pyrah 4 Jul 98

Maryland: 3:54.93i Dick Buerkle 13 Jan 78

Massachussetts: 3:53.18i Laban Rotich 29 Jan 05

Michigan: 3:55.87 Kevin Sullivan 10 Jun 00

Minnesota: 3:55.52 Ray Flynn 10 Aug 85

Mississippi:

Missouri: 3:55.4i Niall O'Shaughnessy 28 Jan 77

Montana:

Nebraska: 3:55.07i Bernard Lagat 9 Feb 02

Nevada:

New Hampshire: 4:00.9 Jack McDonald (Dartmouth Relays)

New Jersey: 3:49.78i Eamonn Coghlan 27 Feb 83

New Mexico: (i) 3:59.4 ? Wilson Waigwa 3 Feb 79 (Indoor, meet with auto timing, hundredths unknown)

New York: 3:52.74 Jim Spivey 21 Jul 91

North Carolina: 3:57.3 Ken Popejoy 12 May 73

North Dakota: 3:59.7 Mike Slack 26 Jan 74

Ohio: 3:57.15 Tom Byers 8 May 83

Oklahoma: 3:57.0i Wilson Waigwa 15 Feb 75

Oregon: 3:48.28 Daniel Kipchirchir Komen 10 Jun 07

Pennsylvania: 3:52.26 Steve Scott 30 May 81

Rhode Island: 3:53.42i Frank O'Mara 1 Feb 87

South Carolina: 3:57.83 Alan Webb

South Dakota:

Tennessee: 3:53.79i Sydney Maree Johnson City 17 Jan 86 (??)

Texas: 3:54.20i Steve Scott Houston 16 Feb 80 (??)

Utah: 3:57.23 Doug Padilla 21 May 83

Vermont:

Virginia: 3:54.41i Noureddine Morceli 9 Feb 92

Washington: 3:56.00i Steve Scherer 2 Feb 08

West Virgina:

Wisconsin: 3:56.38 Matt Tegenkamp 06 May 06

Wyoming:

malmo wrote:

None

AK-4:00.58 Marcus Dunbar 1993

Is he related to Trevor Dunbar?