Usain Bolt 1 Mile Time

Usain Commodities, Globe'south Fastest Man, Has Reportedly Never Run a Mile

If Bolt could proceed upwards his pace from Sunday's 100-meter dash, he'd comprehend a mile in a record-smashing 2:37.7

By Asher Klein • Published August fifteen, 2016 • Updated on Baronial 23, 2016 at vii:35 pm

He can smoke anyone on Earth over 100 meters, but can Usain Bolt trounce the boilerplate P.E. class running a mile?

Apparently, no ane can say for sure.

Bolt, the fastest man in the world three times running now, "has never run a mile," his agent told The New Yorker this month.

The magazine reached out to the amanuensis, Ricky Simms, before the Olympics to settle the question of how fast Bolt could run the mile.

A mile is ane,609.34 meters, and if Bolt could keep upwards his Olympic step — ix.8 seconds per hundred meters on Sunday — he'd be able to encompass it in 2 minutes, 37.7 seconds. His world record 100-meter dash stands at 9.58 seconds, or 27.73 miles per hour, which would translate to a ii minute, nine.8-second mile.

The record is 3 minutes, 43.13 seconds, set past Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj in 1999, merely The New Yorker tracked the debate about whether Bolt could sustain an incredible pace over a mile, and constitute information technology pretty unlikely. American sprinting greats Florence Griffith Joyner and Carl Lewis didn't do also well at altitude.

Possibly Bolt has learned from their examples. Information technology'south good to know your ain strength — specially when you're the best in the world.