All-time women's best mile race

short course

        1      4:23.72    Sonia O'Sullivan                   IRL     28.11.69    1     Nice                           12.07.1995
        2      4:24.34    Regina Jacobs                      USA     28.08.63    2     Nice                           12.07.1995
        3      4:24.37    Carla Sacramento                   POR     10.12.71    3     Nice                           12.07.1995
        4      4:25.02    Yekaterina Podkopayeva             RUS     11.06.52    4     Nice                           12.07.1995
        5      4:25.47    Gina Procaccio                     USA     19.07.64    5     Nice                           12.07.1996
        6      4:26.65    Margarita Marusova                 RUS     25.11.67    6     Nice                           12.07.1995

performances annulled due to doping offense

        1      4:15.63    Yelena Soboleva                    RUS     03.10.82           Moskva                        29.06.2007
        2      4:20.10    Olga Yegorova                      RUS     28.03.72           Moskva                        29.06.2007
        3      4:21.16    Yelena Soboleva                    RUS     03.10.82           Bruxelles                     14.09.2007
        4      4:24.24    Olga Yegorova                      RUS     28.03.72           Bruxelles                     14.09.2007
        5      4:24.79    Yuliya Chizhenko                   RUS     30.08.79           Bruxelles                     14.09.2007
        6      4:24.84    Tatyana Tomashova                  RUS     01.07.75           Moskva                        29.06.2007

performances annulled due to doping offense - indoors

        1      4:20.21    Yelena Soboleva                    RUS     03.10.82           Moskva                        27.01.2008