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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 .
One mile ; 3000 metres ; Two miles ; 5000 metres ; 10,000 metres ; 20,000 metres ; One hour ; 50 metres hurdles ; 60 metres hurdles ; 80 metres hurdles — 100 metres hurdles — 110 metres hurdles —
World records in athletics are ratified by World Athletics. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking. Records are kept for all events contested at the Olympic Games and some others. Unofficial records for some other events are kept by track and field statisticians.
2 miles: 8:22.6 minutes in Melun in 1965 (This was a world record that was broken in July 1967 by Ron Clarke.) 5000 metres: 13:27.6 minutes (1965) 4×1500 metres relay (Michel Jazy, Claude Nicolas , Gérard Vervoort and Jean Wadoux ): 14:49.0 minutes in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés in 1965 (This was a world record and Jazy ran the third leg of the ...
The World Athletics Championships is a biennial event which began in 1983. Organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the World Championships are a competition comprising track and field athletics events available to male and female athletes from any of the IAAF's 213 member federations.
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 ...
The World Athletics Championships, known as the IAAF World Championships in Athletics until 2019, ... Jearl Miles Clark United States: 2: 4: 3: 2: 9 Gail Devers
Lukas Verzbicas (born Lukas Veržbickas [2], January 6, 1993 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is an American triathlete. [3] Once a prominent high school track and cross country runner, Verzbicas set the U.S. high school national record in the two mile with a time of 8:29.46, in June 2011 after graduating from high school the month prior.