Josh Kerr Breaks Mile World Record; Keely Hodgkinson Falls Short in London
At the Diamond League event in London on Saturday, Great Britain's Josh Kerr broke the world record for the mile, running 3:42.66 to shave 0.47 seconds off Hicham El Guerrouj's 27-year-old mark of 3:43.13. Kerr, the former world 1500m champion, earned a $50,000 bonus for the feat in front of a home crowd at the London Stadium. Meanwhile, Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson failed in her attempt to break the oldest world record in athletics—Jarmila Kratochvilova's 800m record from 1983—after suffering a bizarre training injury where she tripped over a metal grate and shredded her knees. She won the women's 800m in 1:56.21, nearly three-tenths of a second off the record. Hodgkinson will have another chance at the European Championships in Birmingham next month.
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