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Kim Collins, 100 m gold medallist at the 2003 World Championships. [8] (returned to competition in 2010) Stacy Dragila, Olympic gold medallist, two-time World Champion, and former world record holder in the pole vault. [9] Yulia Pechonkina, 2005 World Champion in the 400 m hurdles, and current world record holder. [10]
The "Time" column indicates the ratified mark; the "Wind" column indicates the wind assistance in metres per second, 2.0 m/s the current maximum allowable, a negative indicates the mark was set running into a wind; the "Auto" column indicates a fully automatic time that was also recorded in the event when hand-timed marks were used for official records, or which was the basis for the official ...
World record Mike Powell (USA) 8.95: Tokyo, Japan: 30 August 1991 Championship record Mike Powell (USA) 8.95: Tokyo, Japan 30 August 1991 World leading Dwight Phillips (USA) 8.74: Eugene, United States: 7 June 2009 African record Godfrey Khotso Mokoena (RSA) 8.50: Madrid, Spain: 4 July 2009 Asian Record Mohamed Salman Al-Khuwalidi (KSA) 8.48
This category is for articles about a subject who at some point set a world record. They still qualify for this category even if they no longer hold the record because it was later surpassed, since they held it at some point in the past; much like deceased people are no longer actively doing politics but are still categorized as politicians.
The world's tallest man, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records, is Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was born in 1918 in Alton, Ill. Standing at a colossal 8'11.1″ (2.72 m) and weighing in at ...
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
The men's 200 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium, Berlin, Germany on August 18 and August 20. The winning margin was 0.62 seconds which as of 2024 is the only time the men's 200 metres has been won by more than half a second at these championships.
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