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Diane Susan Leather Charles (7 January 1933 – 5 September 2018) was an English athlete who was the first woman to run a sub-5-minute mile. [1]Inspired to take up running aged 19 after watching the 1952 Olympic Games, within months Leather had become national cross-country champion, a title she would go on to win four times.
The 2 mile (3,520 yards, [1] 10,560 feet, or exactly 3,218.688 metres) is a historic running distance. Like the mile run , it is still contested at some invitational meets due its historical chronology in the United States and United Kingdom .
Gina Procaccio 2:05.6 Debbie Grant 2:04.5 Michelle DiMuro 2:09.9 Celeste Halliday 2:05.5: Villanova University: February 7, 1987 Gainesville, Florida [2] Sprint medley relay: 3:52.25 Lauren Burns 25.0h Leena Bettis 25.27 Alesha Barber 55.6h Briene Simmons 2:06.0h: Penn State University: January 13, 2007 University Park, Pennsylvania [2] [8 ...
This rule was not applied retroactively, [7] and has, thus far, only affected the men's and women's pole vault, women's 2,000 m and women's triple jump. The women's vault record has been advanced 9 times indoors by three different women, each ratified as a world record. The last record to be set indoors was in 2004.
When the runners and activists Alison Desir and Lauren Fleshman first learned about the 1977 torch relay, they were shocked. The run has been relegated to the margins of history, despite its size ...
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon broke the women's mile record by nearly five seconds on Friday at the Monaco Diamond League for her third world mark of the past two months. The 29-year-old finished in 4 ...
Masters athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of over 35 years of age. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running.These are the current world records in various five-year-groups, maintained by WMA, the World Association of Masters Athletes, which is designated by the World Athletics (formerly IAAF) to conduct the worldwide sport of Masters ...
With a previously unthinkable time of 7:54.10, Ingebrigtsen, now 22 years old, shattered the world record for the fastest two miles in history Friday at the Diamond League Paris meet. Basically ...