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The Barkley Marathons is an ultramarathon trail race held each year in Frozen Head State Park in Morgan County, Tennessee, United States.Described as "The Race That Eats Its Young", it is known for its extreme difficulty, purposefully difficult application process, and many strange traditions, having been completed only 26 times by 20 runners since 1995.
– time was taken at an intermediate distance in a longer race; A – mark set at altitude; a – (in a road race) assisted, course not record-eligible according to World Athletics rule 260.28; AC – also competed; b – banked track; c – converted mark; dh – downhill; e – estimated mark; F – finals [2] DNF – did not finish; DNS ...
The late Kenyan athlete Kelvin Kiptum set a men's world record time of 2:00:35 on October 8, 2023, at the 2023 Chicago Marathon, a mixed-sex race. [1] [2] Kenyan athlete Ruth Chepng'etich broke the women's world record with a time of 2:09:56 on October 13, 2024 at the 2024 Chicago Marathon, a mixed-sex race. [3]
Ironman 70.3 Budapest, 2014. An Ironman Triathlon is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), consisting of a 2.4-mile (3.9 km) swim, a 112-mile (180.2 km) bicycle ride and a marathon 26.22-mile (42.2 km) run completed in that order, a total of 140.6 miles (226.3 km).
The lead course car carries the current race time. In the early years the Chicago Marathon was held in August. [24] It has from its inception with 4,200 runners and 2,128 finishers been one of the nation's largest marathons. The 2000 running was second only to New York. [25]
10:00 AM – 20:00 PM – World Athletics Road Running Championships EXPO 10:00 AM – 5 km Mass Race starts (time limit: 1.5 hours) 11:30 AM – Road Mile Mass Race starts (time limit: 30 minutes) 11:50 AM – 5 km Women's Elite Race starts 12:15 PM – 5 km Men's Elite Race starts 1:00 PM – Road Mile Women's Elite Race starts
The country with the lowest aggregate time won the team competition. The junior men's race was held in only the first and second editions, and was removed from the programme from 1994 onwards. The competition went largely unchanged until 2006, when the competition was renamed as the IAAF World Road Running Championships.
The run had over 38,000 participants every year since 1986 until 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. [5] Registration peaked in 1996 at 61,298 with 56,156 finishers. [ 6 ] Lineth Chepkurui set an unofficial 12 km world record in the 2010 women's race.