Year Time Name Country Place Gender
1861 286.00 "N.S. Greene" "IRL" NA Male
1862 273.00 "George Farran" "IRL" NA Male
1868 269.80 "Walter Chinnery" "GBR" NA Male
1868 268.80 "William Gibbs" "GBR" NA Male
1873 268.60 "Charles Gunton" "GBR" NA Male
1874 266.00 "Walter Slade" "GBR" NA Male
1875 264.50 "Walter Slade" "GBR" "London" Male
1880 263.20 "Walter George" "GBR" NA Male
1882 259.40 "Walter George" "GBR" NA Male
1884 258.40 "Walter George" "GBR" NA Male
1893 257.80 "Tom Conneff" "USA" NA Male
1895 257.00 "Fred Bacon" "GBR" "London" Male
1895 255.60 "Thomas Conneff" "USA" "New York" Male
1911 255.40 "John Paul Jones" "USA" NA Male
1913 254.40 "John Paul Jones" "USA" "Cambridge MA" Male
1915 252.60 "Norman Taber" "USA" "Cambridge MA" Male
1923 250.40 "Paavo Nurmi" "FIN" "Stockholm" Male
1931 249.20 "Jules Ladoumegue" "FRA" "Paris" Male
1933 247.60 "Jack Lovelock" "NZL" "Princeton NJ" Male
1934 246.80 "Glenn Cunningham" "USA" "Princeton NJ" Male
1937 246.40 "Sydney Wooderson" "GBR" "Motspur Park" Male
1942 246.20 "Gunder Hagg" "SWE" "Goteborg" Male
1942 246.20 "Arne Andersson" "SWE" "Stockholm" Male
1942 244.60 "Gunder Hagg" "SWE" "Stockholm" Male
1943 242.60 "Arne Andersson" "SWE" "Goteborg" Male
1944 241.60 "Arne Andersson" "SWE" "Malmo" Male
1945 241.40 "Gunder Hagg" "SWE" "Malmo" Male
1954 239.40 "Roger Bannister" "GBR" "Oxford" Male
1954 238.00 "John Paul Landy" "AUS" "Turku" Male
1957 237.20 "Derek Ibbotson" "GBR" "London" Male
1958 234.50 "Herb Elliott" "AUS" "Dublin" Male
1962 234.40 "Peter Snell" "NZL" "Wanganui" Male
1964 234.10 "Peter Snell" "NZL" "Auckland" Male
1965 233.60 "Michel Jazy" "FRA" "Rennes" Male
1966 231.30 "Jim Ryun" "USA" "Berkeley CA" Male
1967 231.10 "Jim Ryun" "USA" "Bakersfield CA" Male
1975 231.00 "Filbert Bayi" "TAN" "Kingston" Male
1975 229.40 "John Walker" "NZL" "Goteborg" Male
1979 228.95 "Sebastian Coe" "GBR" "Oslo" Male
1980 228.80 "Steve Ovett" "GBR" "Oslo" Male
1981 228.53 "Sebastian Coe" "GBR" "Zurich" Male
1981 228.40 "Steve Ovett" "GBR" "Koblenz" Male
1981 227.33 "Sebastian Coe" "GBR" "Bruxelles" Male
1985 226.32 "Steve Cram" "GBR" "Oslo" Male
1993 224.39 "Noureddine Morceli" "ALG" "Rieti" Male
1999 223.13 "Hicham El Guerrouj" "MOR" "Roma" Male
1967 277.00 "Anne Smith" "GBR" "London" Female
1969 276.80 "Maria Gommers" "NED" "Leicester" Female
1971 275.30 "Ellen Tittel" "FRG" "Sittard" Female
1973 274.90 "Glenda Reiser" "CAN" "Victoria" Female
1973 269.50 "Paola Cacchi" "ITA" "Viareggio" Female
1977 263.80 "Natalya Marasescu" "ROM" "Bucuresti" Female
1979 262.09 "Natalya Marasescu" "ROM" "Auckland" Female
1980 261.68 "Mary Decker" "USA" "Auckland" Female
1981 260.89 "Tatyana Veselkova" "SOV" "Bologna" Female
1980 257.55 "Mary Decker" "USA" "Houston (unofficial)" Female
1982 258.08 "Mary Decker" "USA" "Paris" Female
1982 257.44 "Maricica Puica" "ROM" "Rieti" Female
1984 255.80 "Natalja Artemova" "SOV" "Leningrad (unofficial)" Female
1985 256.71 "Mary Decker" "USA" "Zurich" Female
1989 255.61 "Paula Ivan" "ROM" "Nice" Female
1996 252.56 "Svetlana Masterkova" "RUS" "Zurich" Female