Most of us know of the famous United States naval hero by this name, with his famous quote, "I have not yet begun to fight." What many Americans may not know, however, is that there was an athlete by that name who was prominent in our sporting history. He was an engineering student at Cornell and did not even make the track team until his last year there.
However, in 1913, Jones set the first world record in the mile to be ratified by the IAAF (4:14.4), thus he was the first "official" record holder and the first of only four other Americans to have held the mark, along with Glenn Cunningham and Jim Ryun.
The current mile record holder is Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco at 3:43.13.
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