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Hobbs Kessler (born March 15, 2003) is an American middle-distance runner. [1] He competes professionally for Adidas, having turned professional directly after high school.He holds the North American U20 record in the 1500 meters, having run 3:34.36 in 2021 during his senior year in high school. He briefly held the world record in the road mile set at the 2023 World Road Running Championships ...

1 day ago · Running the second fastest indoor mile in the world is not a bad day at the track. Hobbs Kessler did just that with another impressive performance on the indoor track over the weekend at the 2025 ...

In May 2023, Kessler set a 1500m personal record of 3:32.61, finishing third at the USATF LA Grand Prix, and in October, Hobbs won the inaugural World Road Running Championships Mile, breaking the tape in 3:56.13 to shatter the world record in Riga, Latvia.

Oct 1, 2023 · The men’s mile lived up to its status as the most wide-open event of the World Athletics Road Running Championships Riga 23 as USA’s 20-year-old Hobbs Kessler took a surprising victory in a world record of 3:56.13*.

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Oct 1, 2023 · American runner Hobbs Kessler, only 20 years old, has emerged as the sensational victor of the first-ever men's road mile at the World Road Running Championships.

Jul 23, 2024 · Hobbs Kessler, born March 15, 2003, is an American middle-distance runner who set the world record for the road mile on October 1, 2023, at the World Athletics Road Running Championships in...

3 days ago · He finished the Wanamaker Mile in a world-record time of 3:46.63. It eclipsed the time of 3:47.01 that Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha turned in nearly six years ago. Like Fisher, Nuguse, 25, needed an all-out burst toward the end. Hobbs Kessler was on his heels and finished in 3:46.90, which also would’ve broken the mark that Kejelcha held ...

3 days ago · Hobbs Kessler, the runner-up to Nuguse on Saturday, also went under Kejelcha’s record with a 3:46.90. Nuguse is the first American to hold an indoor or outdoor mile world record on the track since Mary Slaney held both women’s records in the 1980s.