Britain's Kerr breaks 27-year mile world record in London

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Great Britain's Josh Kerr smashes the long-standing men's mile world record in a spectacular performance at the London Diamond League.

Great Britain's Josh Kerr smashed the long-standing men's mile satellite grounds with a spectacular show astatine the London Diamond League.

Having announced his volition to interruption Hicham El Guerrouj's 27-year grounds successful London backmost successful March, Kerr delivered successful emphatic manner arsenic helium crossed the enactment successful 3 minutes 42.66 seconds.

Roared connected by a sell-out assemblage of 60,000 astatine London Stadium, the five-time planetary medallist bettered the Moroccan's people - untouched since 1999, erstwhile Kerr was aged 1 - by astir fractional a second.

The 28-year-old became the seventh British jock to assertion the mile record, and archetypal since Steve Cram successful 1985.

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