as of February 2024.

Notes

Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 9:13.94:
*Meseret Defar also ran 9:06.26 (2009), 9:10.50 (2008)

World Best Performance progression

Men

Outdoors

Indoors

Women

Outdoors

Indoors

US high school boys progression

Note: this list only covers boys because the history of 2 mile running largely occurred before Title IX,