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All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons.
   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated
 
  4.52.0 Cadet Marshall GBR Addiscombe Sep 02, 1852
  4.45.0 Thomas Finch GBR Oxford Nov 03, 1858
  4.45.0* Vincent Hammick GBR Oxford Nov 15, 1858
  4.40.0 Gerald Surman GBR Oxford Nov 24, 1859
  4.33.0 George Farran IRL Dublin May 23, 1862
  4.29.6 Walter Chinnery GBR Cambridge Mar 10, 1868
  4.28.8 William Gibbs GBR London Apr 03, 1868
  4.28.6 Charles Gunton GBR London Mar 31, 1873
  4.26.0 Walter Slade GBR London May 30, 1874
  4.24.5 Walter Slade GBR London Jun 19, 1875
  4.23.2 Walter George GBR London Aug 16, 1880
  4.19.4 Walter George GBR London Jun 03, 1882
  4.18.4 Walter George GBR Birmingham Jun 21, 1884
  4.17.8 Thomas Conneff USA Cambridge/MA Aug 26, 1893
  4.17.0 Fred Bacon GBR London Jul 06, 1895
  4.15.6 Thomas Conneff USA New York Aug 28, 1895
  4.15.4 John Paul Jones USA Cambridge/MA May 27, 1911
4.14.4 John Paul Jones USA Cambridge/MA May 31, 1913
4.12.6 Norman Taber USA Cambridge/MA Jul 16, 1915
4.10.4 Paavo Nurmi FIN Stockholm Aug 23, 1923
4.09.2 Jules Ladoumégue FRA Paris Oct 04, 1931
4.07.6 Jack Lovelock NZL Pronceton Jul 15, 1933
4.06.8 Glenn Cunningham USA Pronceton Jun 16, 1934
4.06.4 Sydney Wooderson GBR London Aug 28, 1937
4.06.2 Gunder Hägg SWE Göteborg Jul 01, 1942
4.06.2* Arne Andersson SWE Stockholm Jul 10, 1942
4.04.6 Gunder Hägg SWE Stockholm Sep 04, 1942
4.02.6 Arne Andersson SWE Göteborg Jul 01, 1943
4.01.6 Arne Andersson SWE Malmö Jul 18, 1944
4.01.4 Gunder Hägg SWE Malmö Jul 17, 1945
3.59.4 Roger Bannister GBR Oxford May 06, 1954
3.58.0 John Landy AUS Turku Jun 21, 1954
3.57.2 Derek Ibbotson GBR London Jul 19, 1957
3.54.5 Herbert Elliott AUS Dublin Aug 06, 1958
3.54.4 Peter Snell NZL Wanganui Jan 27, 1962
3.54.1 Peter Snell NZL Auckland Nov 17, 1964
3.53.6 Michel Jazy FRA Rennes Jun 09, 1965
3.51.3 Jim Ryun USA Berkeley Jul 17, 1966
3.51.1 Jim Ryun USA Bakersfield Jun 23, 1967
3.51.0 Filbert Bayi TAN Kingston May 17, 1975
3.49.4 John Walker NZL Göteborg Aug 12, 1975
3.49.0 Sebastian Coe GBR Oslo Jul 17, 1979
3.48.8 Steve Ovett GBR Oslo Jul 01, 1980
3.48.53 Sebastian Coe GBR Zürich Aug 19, 1981
3.48.40 Steve Ovett GBR Koblenz Aug 26, 1981
3.47.33 Sebastian Coe GBR Brussels Aug 28, 1981
3.46.32 Steve Cram GBR Oslo Jul 27, 1985
3.44.39 Noureddine Morceli ALG Rieti Sep 05, 1993
3.43.12 Hicham El Guerrouj MAR Rome Jul 07, 1999
  3.43.73 Jakob Ingebrigtsen NOR Eugene, OR Sep 16, 2023