Overview
- Kerr said Saturday he will try to beat Hicham El Guerrouj’s mile world record at the London Diamond League on July 18.
- His best mile is 3:45.34, the British record, which leaves him about 2.2 seconds off El Guerrouj’s 3:43.13 set in 1999.
- He enters the season after winning the world indoor 3,000m title in Poland last week, rebounding from a calf tear that derailed his outdoor campaign.
- Kerr chose a UK stage and spoke of bringing the mile record back to a nation with Roger Bannister, Sebastian Coe, Steve Ovett, and Steve Cram in its lineage.
- The attempt comes in a year without an outdoor world championship, and he plans to go for Commonwealth Games gold in Glasgow about two weeks later.