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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.
Everything you need to know ahead of the event in Budapest
According to NBC's official 2024 Paris Olympic Games schedule, Noah Lyles will run in the first heat of the men's 200, which begins at 8 p.m. on Monday, August 5. The semifinals then begin at 2:02 ...
Adidas-Fast 8 Track Club January 18, 2025 Quaker Invitational Philadelphia, United States [148] 1500 m: 3:33.22+ Yared Nuguse: On Athletics Club: February 11, 2023 Millrose Games: New York City, United States [149] 3:31.74+ Yared Nuguse: On Athletics Club: February 8, 2025 Millrose Games: New York City, United States [150] Mile: 3:47.38 Yared ...
Key No longer contested at the Summer Olympics Men's records Usain Bolt currently holds three Olympic records; two individually in the 100m & 200m, and one with the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team. Ethiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele holds the Olympic record in the 5,000 m. ♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of August 5, 2024 ...
A small number of events, such as the 60 metres, are exclusive to the World Athletics Indoor Championships. Two further, separate World Championship events are held for their specific events: the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships and the World Athletics Cross Country Championships. Cross country is one of many events which have ...
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) track and field system has been touted as one of the main reasons for the success of the United States on the global stage of athletics. [1] All of the collegiate records come from athletes competing in the NCAA, with the exception of the outdoor women's 1500 metres record (NAIA).
For a performance to be ratified as a world record by World Athletics, the marathon course on which the performance occurred must be 42.195 km (26.219 mi) long, [34] measured in a defined manner using the calibrated bicycle method [35] (the distance in kilometers being the official distance; the distance in miles is an approximation) and meet other criteria that rule out artificially fast ...