GB's Josh Kerr breaks mile WORLD RECORD

If you represent your school, or your club in athletics, then perhaps you could be following in Josh Kerr's very speedy footsteps one day.

The Scottish athlete broke a 27-year-old world record at a Diamond League event at the London Stadium on Saturday.

He ran one mile (1.6 kilometres) in a lightning-quick three minutes 42.66 seconds, breaking the previous record by half a second.

Josh called his new record an "awesome achievement".

Josh Kerr was born in Edinburgh and began running with an athletics club at the age of eight.

When he was 17, Josh moved to New Mexico in the United States, attending a university and competing in the NCAA - the top level of college sports in the US.

In 2023, he took gold in the 1500m at the World Championships, making a name for himself in global athletics.

Josh also represented Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021, winning bronze, followed by a silver medal at the Paris Olympics in 2024.

Earlier in 2026, Josh Kerr announced that he was aiming to break the 27-year world record set in 1999 by Moroccan athlete Hicham El Guerrouj.

The mile record has been a famous challenge, which saw GB's Sir Roger Bannister famously became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes in 1954.

The Scot is now the seventh British athlete to claim the mile record.

Josh did it in front of a packed London Stadium, hurtling around the track at an average speed of 16.17 miles per hour.

He even had little lights on the track that he had to keep ahead of, so he knew he was running fast enough.

"It's very overwhelming with the amount of hype [I created]... but I am surrounded by amazing people and was able to stay consistent and put the work in," Josh told BBC Sport.

Not only will his name be in the record books, he also takes home a bonus prize of $50,000 - that's around £37,000.

Josh hopes to win again on home soil during the Commonwealth Games next month.