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All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons. •   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated     16.34.6 George Touquet-Daunis FRA Paris Oct 31, 1897   16.29.2 George Touquet-Daunis FRA Lyon May 22, 1899   15.29.8 Charles Bennett GBR Paris Jul 22, 1900   14.59.0 Alfred Schrubb GBR Glasgow Jun 13, 1904 • 14.36.6 Hannes Kolehmainen FIN Stockholm Jul 10, 1912 • 14.35.4 Paavo Nurmi FIN Stockholm Sep 12, 1922 • 14.28.4 Paavo Nurmi FIN Helsinki Jun 19, 1924 • 14.17.0 Lauri Lehtinen FIN Helsinki Jun 19, 1932 • 14.08.8 Taisto Mäki FIN Helsinki Jun 16, 1939 • 13.58.4 Gunder Hägg SWE Göteborg Sep 20, 1942 • 13.57.2 Emil Zátopek TCH Paris May 30, 1954 • 13.56.6 Vladimir Kuts URS Bern Aug 29, 1954 • 13.51.6 Christopher Chataway GBR London Oct 13, 1954 • 13.51.2 Vladimir Kuts URS Prague Oct 23, 1954 • 13.50.8 Sandor Iharos HUN Budapest Sep 10, 1955 • 13.46.8 Vladimir Kuts URS Belgrad Sep 18, 1955 • 13.40.6 Sandor Iharos HUN Budapest Oct 23, 1955 • 13.36.8 Gordon Pirie GBR Bergen Jun 19, 1956 • 13.35.0 Vladimir Kuts URS Rome Oct 13, 1957 • 13.34.4 Michel Jazy FRA Lorient Jun 06, 1965 • 13.29.0 Michel Jazy FRA Paris Jun 11, 1965 • 13.27.6 Michel Jazy FRA Helsinki Jun 30, 1965 • 13.24.8 Harald Norpoth FRG Köln Sep 07, 1966 • 13.22.8 Ian Stewart GBR Edinburgh Jul 25, 1970 • 13.22.2 Dave Bedford GBR Edinburgh Jun 12, 1971 • 13.17.2 Dave Bedford GBR London Jul 14, 1972 • 13.16.4 Lasse Viren FIN Helsinki Sep 14, 1972 • 13.13.0 Emiel Puttemans BEL Brussels Sep 20, 1972 • 13.10.40 Hansjörg Kunze GDR Rieti Sep 09, 1981 • 13.00.41 David Moorcroft GBR Oslo Jul 07, 1982 • 12.54.70 Dieter Baumann GER Zürich Aug 13, 1997 • 12.49.71 Mohammed Mourhit BEL Brussels Aug 26, 2000 • 12.48.45 Jakob Ingebrigtsen NOR Firenze Jul 10, 2021 • 12.45.01 Mohamed Katir ESP Monaco Jul 21, 2023   12.44.27 Andreas Almgren SWE Stockholm Jun 15, 2025