July 18 – Josh Kerr shattered the 27-year-old world mile record at London Stadium on Saturday as he made Project 222 a reality.
The 28-year-old Briton, roared on by a capacity 60,000 crowd at the London Diamond League meeting, ran a time of three minutes 42.68 seconds to break Hicham El Guerrouj’s long-standing mark by 0.45 seconds.
He had targeted a 222-second race, and he pulled it off to become the sixth British athlete in history to hold the record for the distance.
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