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Indoor tracks longer than 200 meters are considered "oversized" and times are not accepted for record purposes. Indoor sprint races (50 to 60 meters) are held on level straight-aways. American athletes are successful on an international stage with many American records being at the same time world records.
Jenny Barringer set collegiate records in six events representing the Colorado Buffaloes, though none of them still stand Elijah Hall posing with the clock after setting a collegiate record of 20.02 seconds in the indoor 200 m, a mark that also stands as the American record and the No. 2 performance of all time. The United States collegiate ...
Henry Carr's winning time at the 1964 Olympics (17 October) was a hand timed 20.3 seconds. The electronic time was 20.36 seconds, which was the fastest auto time to that date. Tommie Smith ran 20.26 for 220 yards at Provo in 1967. By deducting .12 seconds for the 200 metre equivalent, he is estimated to have run 20.14 for that distance. [4]: 45
200 m: 22.11 A (−0.5 m/s) Allyson Felix: Los Angeles Baptist High School: North Hills, California: Mexico City, Mexico: Banamex Grand Prix [56] May 3, 2003 200 m Low Altitude 22.43 (−0.7 m/s) Candace Hill: Rockdale High School: Rockdale, Texas: Cali, Colombia World Youth Championships: July 19, 2015 200 m: 22.52 (+0.8 m/s) Allyson Felix ...
Olympic silver medalist Kenny Bednarek set the fastest time of the year in the 200 meters in 19.67 seconds at the Doha Diamond League on Friday. With a tailwind of +1.7 within the legal limit ...
200 m: 21.34 (+1.3 m/s) Florence Griffith Joyner United States 29 September 1988 Olympic Games: Seoul, South Korea 200 m (straight) 22.31 (+0.9 m/s) Joanna Atkins United States 20 May 2018 Adidas Boost Boston Games: Boston, United States [68] 300 m: 35.46 Chandra Cheeseborough United States 18 August 1984 London, United Kingdom 400 m: 48.70
The world best time for a "football 40" is 4.17 by Deion Sanders, while the extrapolated best for an Olympic-level athlete (including reacting to a starting gun) is 4.24 by Maurice Greene at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. [247] [248] Under conventional football timing on a turf field in 2017, Christian Coleman reportedly ran a 4.12 ...
The fastest-ever recorded 40-yard dash time was set by Washington receiver John Ross III in 2017. He ran an official 4.22 in the event, the fastest ever recorded at the combine.