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The '''Dream Mile''' may refer to the annual Diamond League race in [[Oslo]] at Bislett Stadium, or several historic individual races featuring top middle-distance runners.

==Dream Mile (Bislett)==

{{Infobox athletics race|name=Bislett Dream Mile|bgcolour=#FE9A2E|location=[[Bislett Stadium]]<br>[[Oslo]], [[Norway]] {{flagicon|Norway}}|type=[[Track and field]]|distance=One Mile (1,609.344 meters)|organizer=[[Bislett Games]]|record=Men: {{flagicon|Morocco}} [[Hicham El Guerrouj]] 3:44.90 (1997)
<br>Women: {{flagicon|Ethiopia}} [[Birke Haylom]] 4:17.13 (2023)}}

The Dream Mile is an annual mile race run at [[Bislett Stadium]], [[Oslo]] as part of the [[Bislett Games]], one of the meetings of the [[Diamond League]] athletics competition.  This annual event was interrupted in 2004 for the rebuilding of [[Bislett Stadium]], replacing a six-lane track with sharp bends and steep terraces with a conventional eight-lane track and seating. In 1980, the [[World record progression for the mile run#IAAF era|world mile record]] was set in this race by [[Steve Ovett]], and in 1985 [[Steve Cram]] also set a new world mile record.

Numerous [[National records in athletics|National records]] were set in the Bislett Dream Mile, including current records:  [[List of British records in athletics|Great Britain]] ([[Steve Cram]]), [[List of Spanish records in athletics|Spain]] ([[José Luis González (athlete)|José Luis González]]), [[List of Qatari records in athletics|Qatar]] ([[Daham Najim Bashir]]),  [[List of Australian records in athletics|Australia]] ([[Craig Mottram]]), [[List of New Zealand records in athletics|New Zealand]] ([[John Walker (athlete)|John Walker]]), [[List of German records in athletics|Germany]] ([[Jens-Peter Herold]]), [[List of Somalian records in athletics|Somalia]] ([[Abdi Bile]]), [[List of Portuguese records in athletics|Portugal]] ([[Isaac Nader]]), [[List of Irish records in athletics|Ireland]] ([[Ray Flynn (athlete)|Ray Flynn]]), [[List of Canadian records in athletics|Canada]] ([[Kevin Sullivan (athlete)|Kevin Sullivan]]), [[List of Brazilian records in athletics|Brazil]] ([[Hudson de Souza]]) and [[List of Saudi Arabian records in athletics|Saudi Arabia]] ([[Mohammed Shaween]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/news/dream-mile-oslo-iaaf-diamond-league|title = The Dream Mile continues to make history at Bislett - IAAF Diamond League &#124; NEWS &#124; World Athletics}}</ref> The 2017 race was held as an under-20s competition.<ref>[http://www.runblogrun.com/2017/06/the-dream-mile-the-end-of-an-era-by-j-stuart-weir.html The Dream Mile, The end of an era? by J. Stuart Weir]. RunBlogRun. Retrieved 2019-08-10.</ref>

;Annual Men's Dream Mile Champions
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Year
!Athlete
!Country
!Time
|-
|[[2025 Bislett Games|2025]]
|[[Isaac Nader]]
|{{flag|Portugal}}
|3:48.25
|-
|2024
! colspan="3" rowspan="2" |Mile Not Held (Meet Had 1500m)
|-
|2023
|-
|[[2022 Bislett Games|2022]]
|[[Jakob Ingebrigtsen]]
|{{flag|Norway}}
|3:46.46
|-
|[[2021 Bislett Games|2021]]
|[[Stewart McSweyn]]
|{{flag|Australia}}
|3:48.37
|-
|2020
! colspan="3" |Meet Not Held (COVID-19 Pandemic)
|-
|[[2019 Bislett Games|2019]]
|[[Marcin Lewandowski]]
|{{flag|Poland}}
|3:52.34
|-
|2018
|[[Elijah Manangoi]]
|{{flag|Kenya}}
|3:56.95
|-
|2017
|[[Jakob Ingebrigtsen]]
|{{flag|Norway}}
|3:56.29
|-
|2016
|[[Asbel Kiprop]]
|{{flag|Kenya}}
|3:51.48
|-
|2015
|[[Asbel Kiprop]]
|{{flag|Kenya}}
|3:51.45
|-
|2014
|[[Ayanleh Souleiman]]
|{{flag|Djibouti}}
|3:49.49
|-
|2013
|[[Ayanleh Souleiman]]
|{{flag|Djibouti}}
|3:50.53
|-
|2012
|[[Asbel Kiprop]]
|{{flag|Kenya}}
|3:49.22
|-
|2011
|[[Asbel Kiprop]]
|{{flag|Kenya}}
|3:50.86
|-
|2010
|[[Asbel Kiprop]]
|{{flag|Kenya}}
|3:49.56
|-
|2009
|[[Deresse Mekonnen]]
|{{flag|Ethiopia}}
|3:48.95
|-
|2008
|[[Andrew Baddeley]]
|{{flag|Great Britain}}
|3:49.38
|-
|2007
|[[Adil Kaouch]]
|{{flag|Morocco}}
|3:51.14
|-
|2006
|[[Alex Kipchirchir]]
|{{flag|Kenya}}
|3:50.32
|-
|2005
|[[Daham Najim Bashir]]
|{{flag|Qatar}}
|3:47.97
|-
|2004
! colspan="3" |Not Held
|-
|2003
! colspan="3" |Not Held
|-
|2002
|[[Hicham El Guerrouj]]
|{{flag|Morocco}}
|3:50.12
|-
|2001
|[[Ali Saïdi-Sief]]
|{{flag|Algeria}}
|3:48.23
|-
|2000
|[[Hicham El Guerrouj]]
|{{flag|Morocco}}
|3:46.24
|-
|1999
! colspan="3" |Not Held
|-
|1998
! colspan="3" |Not Held (Meet Had 1500m)
|-
|1997
|[[Hicham El Guerrouj]]
|{{flag|Morocco}}
|'''3:44.90 MR'''
|-
|1996
|[[Noureddine Morceli]]
|{{flag|Algeria}}
|3:48.15
|-
|1995
! colspan="3" |Not Held (Meet Had 1500m)
|-
|1994
|[[Vénuste Niyongabo]]
|{{flag|Burundi}}
|3:48.94
|-
|1993
|[[Noureddine Morceli]]
|{{flag|Algeria}}
|3:47.78
|-
|1992
|[[David Kibet]]
|{{flag|Kenya}}
|3:52.32
|-
|1991
|[[Peter Elliott (athlete)|Peter Elliott]]
|{{flag|Great Britain}}
|3:49.46
|-
|1990
|[[Joe Falcon (athlete)|Joe Falcon]]
|{{flag|United States}}
|3:49.31
|-
|1989
! colspan="3" |???
|-
|1988
|[[Steve Cram]]
|{{flag|Great Britain}}
|3:48.85
|-
|1987
|[[Steve Cram]]
|{{flag|Great Britain}}
|3:50.08
|-
|1986
|[[Steve Cram]]
|{{flag|Great Britain}}
|3:48.31
|-
|1985
|[[Steve Cram]]
|{{flag|Great Britain}}
|3:46.32 (<abbr>WR*</abbr>, MR*)
|-
|1984
! colspan="3" |Not Held (Meet Had 1500m)
|-
|1983
|[[Steve Scott (runner)|Steve Scott]]
|{{flag|United States}}
|3:49.49
|-
|1982
|[[Steve Scott (runner)|Steve Scott]]
|{{flag|United States}}
|3:47.69 (MR*)
|-
|1981
|[[Tom Byers (athlete)|Tom Byers]]
|{{flag|United States}}
|???
|-
|1980
|[[Steve Ovett]]
|{{flag|Great Britain}}
|3:48.8 (WR*, MR*)
|-
|1979
|[[Sebastian Coe]]
|{{flag|Great Britain}}
|3:49.0 (WR*, MR*)
|-
|1978
|[[Wilson Waigwa]]
|{{flag|Kenya}}
|3:53.2
|-
|1977
! colspan="3" |???
|-
|1976
|[[John Walker (runner)|John Walker]]
|{{flag|New Zealand}}
|3:55.5+
|-
|1975
! colspan="3" |???
|-
|1974
|[[Knut Kvalheim]]
|{{flag|Norway}}
|3:56.2
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki>World Records (WRs) and Meet Records (MRs) denoted by an asterisk were significant performances that were former world and/or meet records in the mile at the time of their clocking. The current meet record (3:44.90, 1997), by [[Hicham El Guerrouj]], is bolded.
*
*

==Other "Dream Miles"==
The term "Dream Mile" is also used to describe several other major athletics events, notably the 1974 [[Commonwealth Games]] [[1500 metres]] race ("metric mile") fought out between [[Filbert Bayi]] and [[John Walker (runner)|John Walker]] in [[Christchurch]], [[New Zealand]]. This was described by [[Duncan Mackay (journalist)|Duncan Mackay]] in ''[[The Observer]]'' as "...a race to rival the 'Miracle Mile' <nowiki>[taking]</nowiki> middle-distance running into a new era. To many it still remains the greatest 1,500m race ever." In this race, both of the first two runners broke the previous world record.

The current world record in the mile run was also set in a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvCsj7eJKKA race] where two athletes surpassed the previously standing world record—one might suggest it was a new record because the two had challenged each other to the finish. In Rome, 1999, [[Hicham El Guerrouj]] ran a time of 3:43.13 and [[Noah Ngeny]] finished at 3:43.40. This was the first time in over 40 years that two men had bettered the world record in the mile in the same race although this race was not called the "Dream Mile."

The first event called a "Dream Mile" was a match race between [[Jim Ryun]] and [[Marty Liquori]] on May 16, 1971.  The event took place at the [[Martin Luther King International Freedom Games]] at [[Franklin Field]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]. Bob Hersh of ''[[Track & Field News]]'' wrote, "The build-up was probably the greatest for any single footrace since the historic '[[Athletics at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games – Men's 1 mile |Miracle Mile]]' at [[Vancouver, British Columbia]] in 1954."

Ryun, who was known for his kick, was the favorite. He had also run much faster than [[Villanova University]]'s Liquori (3:51.1 to 3:57.2). The race went out slow, with both going 440 yards in the middle of the pack - slower than 61-seconds. Ryun took over at halfway (2:03.3). After the next turn, Liquori moved decisively. He passed the world record holder and led him through a lap in 56.7. In the last lap, Liquori would not surrender the lead. At the finish, Liquori prevailed as both clocked 3:54.6.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110617183532/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1084891/index.htm sportsillustrated.cnn.com] Sports Illustrated May 24, 1971</ref>

==See also==
* [[Mile run world record progression]]
* [[Four-minute mile]]
* [[Dicksonpokalen]]
* [[Bowerman Mile]]
* [[Emsley Carr Mile]]
* [[Wanamaker Mile]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Mile races]]
[[Category:Track and field competitions in the United States]]
[[Category:Men's athletics competitions]]
[[Category:Bislett Games]]