Men's World Indoor 1500m and Mile WR progression

Here's a little bit of info. If anyone has a link to the all-time progression that would be cool...

From the following link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eamonn_Coghlan

Coghlan was nicknamed "The Chairman of the Boards" because of his success on indoor tracks having set the world record in the indoor mile run at 3:50.6 in 1981 then bettering it to 3:49.78 in 1983 at New Jersey's Meadowlands indoor arena. His record stood until 1997 when it was broken by Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj in a time of 3:48.45. Coghlan's 1983 time was the fastest mile ever run in the United States until June 10, 2007, when Daniel Kipchirchir Komen ran 3:48.28 outdoors in Eugene, Oregon. It remains one of only four sub-3:50 miles run on American soil.[1] By and large, Coghlan was more successful at indoor running notwithstanding a later world title in 1983 over 5000 meters.

FYI

MARTIN McGRADY: The original "Chairman of the Boards," McGrady was one of the greatest indoor runners in the years when small tracks were in vogue. A three-time national indoor 600 champion, McGrady won the "Mel Sheppard 600" in 1967, 1968 and 1970. At the 1970 USA Indoor Championships he set the world indoor record of 1:07.6, defeating 1968 Olympic 400m gold medalist Lee Evans (1:08.0). The record lasted until Mark Everett ran 1:07.53 at the 1992 Millrose Games

Sorry about the formatting:

1500:

3.57.0 Joseph Ray USA New York May 30, 1920

3.56.2 Paavo Nurmi FIN New York Jan 06, 1925

3.55.8 Lloyd Hahn USA Washington Feb 21, 1925

3.53.4 Gene Venzke USA New York Feb 27, 1932

3.52.2* William Bonthron USA New York Feb 24, 1934

3.52.2 Glenn Cunningham USA New York Feb 24, 1934

3.50.5 Glenn Cunningham USA New York Feb 23, 1935

3.49.9 Gene Venzke USA New York Feb 22, 1936

3.48.4 Glenn Cunningham USA New York Feb 26, 1938

3.48.3 Wesley Santee USA New York Feb 05, 1955

3.44.6 Siegfried Herrmann GDR Berlin Est Feb 28, 1960

3.43.2 Jim Beatty USA Los Angeles Feb 10, 1962

3.42.2 Jürgen May GDR Berlin East Feb 14, 1965

3.42.0 Siegfried Herrmann GDR Berlin East Feb 21, 1965

3.41.9 Jürgen May GDR Berlin East Feb 20, 1966

3.41.7 Jürgen May GDR Berlin East Feb 27, 1966

3.40.7 Michel Jazy FRA Lyon Feb 27, 1966

3.37.8 Harald Norpoth FRG Berlin West Feb 13, 1971

3.37.4 John Walker NZL Long Beach Jan 06, 1979

• 3.36.04 José Luis Gonzalez ESP Oviedo Mar 01, 1986

• 3.35.6 Marcus O'Sullivan IRL East Rutherford Feb 10, 1989

• 3.34.20 Peter Elliott GBR Seville Feb 27, 1990

• 3.34.16 Noureddine Morceli ALG Seville Feb 28, 1991

• 3.31.18 Hicham El Guerrouj MOR Stuttgart Feb 02, 1997

Mile:

4.37.2 B.B. Smith USA Chicago 1898

4.30.4 Nelson Kelluff USA Ann Arbor Mar 28, 1903

4.28.0 W.E. Shutt USA Ann Arbor 1904

4.25.2 Melvin Sheppard USA New York Jan 26, 1906

4.24.0* James Lightbody USA 1907

4.24.0 Frank Nebrich USA New York 1907

4.23.0 Tad White USA New York 1908

4.19.8 Herbert Trube USA New York Feb 13, 1909

4.19.8* Oscar Hedlund USA Feb 22, 1912

4.18.8 Oscar Hedlund USA New York Feb 12, 1913

4.18.2 Abel Kiviat USA New York Feb 15, 1913

4.16.0 John Overton USA Philadelphia Mar 10, 1917

4.14.6 Joseph Ray USA Chicago Apr 12, 1919

4.13.6 Paavo Nurmi FIN New York Jan 06, 1925

4.13.4 Lloyd Hahn USA New York Feb 14, 1925

4.12.0 Paavo Nurmi FIN Buffalo Mar 07, 1925

4.12.0* Joseph Ray USA New York Mar 17, 1925

4.11.2 Gene Venzke USA New York Feb 06, 1932

4.10.0 Gene Venzke USA New York Feb 17, 1932

4.09.8 Glenn Cunningham USA Chicago Mar 25, 1933

4.08.4 Glenn Cunningham USA New York Mar 17, 1934

[4.04.4] Glenn Cunningham USA Hanover, NH Mar 03, 1938

4.07.4 Glenn Cunningham USA New York Mar 12, 1938

4.07.4* Charles Fenske USA New York Feb 03, 1940

4.07.4* Leslie MacMitchell USA New York Feb 15, 1941

4.07.4* Walter Mehl USA New York Feb 15, 1941

4.07.3 Gilbert Dodds USA New York Mar 11, 1944

4.06.4 Gilbert Dodds USA Chicago Mar 18, 1944

4.05.3 Gilbert Dodds USA New York Jan 31, 1948

4.04.9 Wesley Santee USA East Lansing Feb 15, 1954

4.03.8 Wesley Santee USA Boston Jan 29, 1955

4.03.6 Gunnar Nielsen DEN New York Feb 05, 1955

4.03.4 Ronald Delany IRL Chicago Mar 14, 1958

4.02.5 Ronald Delany IRL New York Feb 21, 1959

4.01.4 Ronald Delany IRL New York Mar 07, 1959

3.58.9 Jim Beatty USA Los Angeles Feb 10, 1962

3.58.6 Jim Beatty USA New York Feb 15, 1963

3.56.6 Tom O'Hara USA New York Feb 13, 1964

3.56.4 Tom O'Hara USA Chicago Mar 06, 1964

3.56.4 Jim Ryun USA San Diego Feb 19, 1971

3.55.0 Tony Waldrop USA San Diego Feb 17, 1974

3.54.93 Richard Buerkle USA College Park Jan 13, 1978

3.52.6 Eamon Coghlan IRL San Diego Feb 16, 1979

3.50.6 Eamon Coghlan IRL San Diego Feb 20, 1981

• 3.49.78 Eamon Coghlan IRL East Rutherford Feb 27, 1983

• 3.48.45 Hicham El Guerrouj MAR Gand Feb 12, 1997

Man look at that Ireland was like Kenya back in the day...

7 out 15 fastest Miles are Irish

4 Irish in 10 fastest Men Indoors

Indoor marks

1 3:48.45 Hicham El Guerrouj MAR

2 3:49.78 Eamonn Coghlan IRL

3 3:49.89 Bernard Lagat KEN

4 3:50.6 Eamonn Coghlan IRL

5 3:50.70 Noureddine Morceli ALG

6 3:50.81 Noureddine Morceli ALG

7 3:50.94 Marcus O'Sullivan IRL

8 3:51.20 Ray Flynn IRL

9 3:51.66 Marcus O'Sullivan IRL

10 3:51.8 Steve Scott USA

11 3:52.02 Peter Elliott GBR

12 3:52.18 Rui Silva POR

13 3:52.28 Steve Scott USA

14 3:52.30 Frank O'Mara IRL

15 3:52.37 Eamonn Coghlan IRL

Who is Murphy? wrote:

• 3.49.78 Eamon Coghlan IRL East Rutherford Feb 27, 1983

• 3.48.45 Hicham El Guerrouj MAR Gand Feb 12, 1997

So has any non-doper run faster than that 3:49 by EC? What was most amazing about that run was the track he did it on!

3 fastest white indoor Milers were Irish !

...If ginger is considered white that is haha

.... & btw thanks to the American system to have developped all this Irish talent.

Thanks for the info, but didnt Coghlan hold the World Record for indoor 1500m of 3.35.6 from 20-2-1981??? I've read many times he broke the 1500m world indoor record. Never knew how long it lasted. Why is it not included here??

If you read the "About this video" section, and translate it into english, it states that Gonzalez attempted to break Coghlans record and recorded the 2nd fastest time ever.

04072511 wrote:

Thanks for the info, but didnt Coghlan hold the World Record for indoor 1500m of 3.35.6 from 20-2-1981??? I've read many times he broke the 1500m world indoor record. Never knew how long it lasted. Why is it not included here??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZOeWodcvg4

If you read the "About this video" section, and translate it into english, it states that Gonzalez attempted to break Coghlans record and recorded the 2nd fastest time ever.

the little dots before the times mean that the times were ratified world records. before that, indoor marks weren't certified by the iaaf.

the listing before that is the fastest 1500m indoor times, taken from fastest lists.

i'm guessing that since coughlin ran his 1500 time en route to the mile, it wouldn't show up on fastest lists.

I've actually just discovered this article. This explains all of the confusion of Coghlan's 1500 WR time.

By any chance do you have a European Record progression for these 2 distances aswell. By the lookms of things Coghlan has held the European Record for the mile from 1979-Present. Amazing. But he may have held it beforehand. Hard to tell from this list if he has.

forgot the link

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE6DE163FF937A25751C0A96F948260

Do you have a link to these fastest lists. I'm very interested to see them. Also I just discovered that Coghlan held the European Record for the mile OUTDOORS for 15 months from May 75 to August 76.

Pretty good link for top all time marks only problem is it doesn't really show progression because most of the earlier world records are too slow to make the list:

http://www.alltime-athletics.com/

big fan wrote:

Pretty good link for top all time marks only problem is it doesn't really show progression because most of the earlier world records are too slow to make the list:

http://www.alltime-athletics.com/

Yeh I know that site very well. Its a great site but not very good for indoor times as it doesnt give very many and as you say you wont find older times in it. The earliest Ive seen from all eventgs Ive looked at to make one of the lists is Herb Elliot from 1958.

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Tefera 3:31.04

Kejelcha 3:47.01