London ¨C Josh Kerr shattered the 27-year-old world mile record at London Stadium on Saturday as he made his ¡°Project ?222¡± a reality, shaving almost three seconds off his own personal best in the process.
The 28-year-old Briton, roared on by a capacity crowd of 60,000 at the London Diamond League meeting, ran a time of 3 minutes, 42.66 seconds to break Hicham El Guerrouj¡¯s long-standing mark by 0.47 seconds.
As part of Project 222 Kerr had targeted a sub-223-second race, and with Saturday¡¯s run he became the seventh ?Briton to hold the mile record and first since Steve Cram in 1985.
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