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| Marcus O'Sullivan en route to his 100th sub-4:00 mile at the 1998 Millrose Games |
Marcus O’Sullivan is one of only 3 athletes to run 100 or more sub-4:00 miles. He joined American Steve Scott (136 sub-4:00 miles) and New Zealander John Walker (124 sub-4:00 miles) on that list on February 13th, 1998, when he ran 3:58.10 at the Wanamaker Mile at the Millrose Games. His final sub-4:00 mile -- his 101st -- took place 12 days later in Melbourne, Australia. In that final sub-4 performance, O'Sullivan came third behind Kenyans Daniel Komen (3:53.63) and Noah Ngeny (3:56.06). He also ran the metric equivalent of the sub-4:00 mile (i.e., sub 3:42.2 over 1500 meters) an additional 83 times in his career to produce a staggering level of consistency.
Here is O'Sullivan's complete list of sub-4:00 miles in chronological order. Note the gap of 15 years and 1 month between his initial and his final sub-4 efforts.
No. Date Locale Time 1. Jan. 22, 1983 Chapel Hill, NC 3:58.84 (i) 2. Jan. 28, 1983 New York, NY 3:59.09 (i) 3. July 13, 1983 Cork, Ireland 3:56.65 4. July 20, 1983 Luxembourg, 3:59.60 5. July 3, 1984 Cork, Ireland 3:56.11 6. July 21, 1984 Oslo, Norway 3:55.82 7. Jan. 19, 1985 Johnson City, TN 3:57.10 (i) 8. Feb. 9, 1985 East Rutherford, NJ 3:57.09 (i) 9. June 9, 1985 Villanova, PA 3:54.13 10. June 24, 1985 Belfast, N. Ireland 3:56.74 11. July 9, 1985 Cork, Ireland 3:52.64 12. July 23, 1985 Edinburgh, Scotland 3:56.40 13. Aug. 2, 1985 London, England 3:57.26 14. Aug. 30, 1985 Brussels, Belgium 3:59.26 15. Jan. 17, 1986 Los Angeles, CA 3:58.37 (i) 16. Feb. 1, 1986 Dallas, TX 3:57.36 (i) 17. Feb. 8, 1986 East Rutherford, NJ 3:57.33 (i) 18. Feb. 14, 1986 New York, NY 3:56.05 (i) 19. Feb. 21, 1986 Inglewood, CA 3:57.21 (i) 20. Feb. 28, 1986 New York, NY 3:57.27 (i) 21. June 30, 1986 Belfast, N. Ireland 3:58.54 22. July 8, 1986 Cork, Ireland 3:53.55 23. July 11, 1986 London, England 3:54.59 24. Aug. 6, 1986 Dublin, Ireland 3:58.50 25. Sept. 12, 1986 London, England 3:54.07 26. Jan. 30, 1987 New York, NY 3:56.49 (i) 27. Feb. 14, 1987 East Rutherford, NJ 3:57.68 (i) 28. Feb. 21, 1987 Inglewood, CA 3:56.92 (i) 29. June 4, 1987 Madrid, Spain 3:59.40 30. July 4, 1987 Oslo, Norway 3:54.29 31. July 7, 1987 Cork, Ireland 3:58.84 32. July 15, 1987 Barcelona, Spain 3:56.33 33. July 20, 1987 Belfast, N. Ireland 3:59.35 34. Aug. 19, 1987 Zurich, Switzerland 3:52.76 35. Jan. 22, 1988 Johnson City, TN 3:57.79 (i) 36. Feb. 5, 1988 New York, NY 3:56.89 (i) 37. Feb. 13, 1988 East Rutherford, NJ 3:50.94 (i) 38. Feb. 26, 1988 New York, NY 3:59.85 (i) 39. July 16, 1988 Gateshead, England 3:57.77 40. Aug. 17, 1988 Zurich, Switzerland 3:52.50 41. Aug. 26, 1988 Berlin, Germany 3:57.21 42. Jan. 27, 1989 Johnson City, TN 3:57.60 (i) 43. Feb. 3, 1989 New York, NY 3:54.27 (i) 44. Feb. 5, 1989 Fairfax, VA 3:58.06. 45. Feb. 10, 1989 East Rutherford, NJ 3:51.66 (i) 46. Feb. 24, 1989 New York, NY 3:59.24 (i) 47. July 1, 1989 Oslo, Norway 3:51.64 48. July 22, 1989 New York, NY 3:53.57 49. Sept. 15, 1989 London, England 3:56.66 50. Feb. 2, 1990 New York, NY 3:59.35 (i) 51. Feb. 9, 1990 East Rutherford, NJ 3:58.44 52. Feb. 16, 1990 Inglewood, CA 3:56.99 (i) 53. Feb. 23, 1990 New York, NY 3:57.35 (i) 54. July 29, 1990 New York, NY 3:55.51 55. Jan. 25, 1991 Johnson City, TN 3:58.96 (i) 56. Feb. 1, 1991 New York, NY 3:55.17 (i) 57. Feb. 8, 1991 East Rutherford, NJ 3:56.75 (i) 58. Feb. 22, 1991 New York, NY 3:58.62 (i) 59. July 21, 1991 New York, NY 3:56.23 60. Jan. 25, 1992 Johnson City, TN 3:57.38 (i) 61. May 24, 1992 New York, NY 3:58.95 62. Aug. 25, 1992 Copenhagen, Denmark 3:57.68 63. Jan. 15, 1993 Hamilton, Ontario 3:59.30 (i) 64. Jan. 23, 1993 Boston, MA 3:58.30 (i) 65. Jan. 30, 1993 Johnson City, TN 3:59.61 (i) 66. Feb. 5, 1993 New York, NY 3:55.36 (i) 67. Feb. 19, 1993 Portland, OR 3:57.60 (i) 68. Feb. 26, 1993 New York, NY 3:54.90 (i) 69. June 25, 1993 Indianapolis, IN 3:54.48 70. July 9, 1993 Cork, Ireland 3:57.99 71. Aug. 27, 1993 Berlin, Germany 3:52.76 72. Sept. 3, 1993 Brussels, Belgium 3:55.53 73. Jan. 16, 1994 Montreal, Canada 3:59.72 (i) 74. Jan. 22, 1994 Johnson City, TN 3:59.16 (i) 75. Feb. 4, 1994 New York, NY 3:58.80 (i) 76. July 26, 1994 St. Petersburg, Russia 3:53.86 77. Jan. 13, 1995 Hamilton, Ontario 3:59.98 (i) 78. Jan. 29, 1995 Johnson City, TN 3:59.14 (i) 79. Feb. 3, 1995 New York, NY 3:57.11 (i) 80. Feb. 17, 1995 Cleveland, OH 3:59.09 (i) 81. Feb. 25, 1995 Fairfax, VA 3:56.48 (i) 82. June 2, 1995 Haverford, PA 3:59.92 83. Aug. 27, 1995 London, England 3:57.07 84. Sept. 1, 1995 Berlin, Germany 3:54.26 85. Oct. 21, 1995 Hong Kong, China 3:59.72 86. March 2, 1996 Atlanta, GA 3:58.98 (i) 87. May 18, 1996 Atlanta, GA 3:56.95 88. May 26, 1996 Eugene, OR 3:53.81 89. July 5, 1996 Oslo, Norway 3:52.80 90. Aug. 30, 1996 Berlin, Germany 3:54.87 91. Jan. 25, 1997 Boston, MA 3:57.49 (i) 92. May 14, 1997 Haverford, PA 3:57.50 93. May 25, 1997 Eugene, OR 3:53.86 94. June 4, 1997 Haverford, PA 3:57.40 95. June 29, 1997 Sheffield, England 3:57.49 96. July 4, 1997 Oslo, Norway 3:52.63 97. July 16, 1997 Nice, France 3:52.82 98. Aug. 26, 1997 Berlin, Germany 3:52.04 99. Jan. 25, 1998 Haverford, PA 3:58.60 (i) 100. Feb. 13, 1998 New York, NY 3:58.10 (i) 101. Feb. 25, 1998 Melbourne, Australia 3:56.35
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