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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 ...
This is a list of world records for Masters age groups in the sport of road running.The world governing body for masters athletics is World Masters Athletics (WMA). WMA conducts various world championships in what are called "non stadia" events, meaning races not held in the confines of a stadium.
The men's world record for the 50-mile race walk is held by Israeli Shaul Ladany, whose time of 7:23:50 in 1972 beat the world record that had stood since 1935. [9] The modern Olympic events are the 20 km (12.4 mi) race walk (men and women) and 50 km (31 mi) race walk (men only).
Starting at age 35, each age group starts on the athlete's birthday in years that are evenly divisible by 5 and extends until the next such occurrence. For record purposes, older athletes are not included in younger age groups, except in the case of relay team members. A relay team's age group is determined by the age of the youngest member.
The world records for this age group are ratified by World Masters Athletics, the global sports body for masters track and field. [1] National bodies, such as the USA Masters division of USATF, may also retain national records for the best performances in athletics events recorded by athletes aged 100 and over. [2]
Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed by six consecutive records set indoors, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2023 with a 6.22 m mark. In 2020 ...
10 km walk (road) 38:57 Li Tianlei China 18 September 2010 IAAF Race Walking Challenge Final: Beijing, China 15 years, 248 days [32] 20,000 m walk (track) 1:23:37.21 Li Tianlei China 18 September 2012 Chinese University Games Tianjin, China 17 years, 249 days 20 km walk (road) 1:18:07 Li Gaobo China 23 April 2005 Cixi, China 15 years, 274 days
USA 5 km Race Walk Championships Albany, United States [127] 10 km walk: 44:09+ Maria Michta-Coffey: April 3, 2016 USA Racewalking Team Trials Earth City, United States [128] 15 km walk: 1:07:51+ Maria Michta: May 3, 2014 IAAF World Race Walking Cup: Taicang, China [129] 25 km walk: 2:03:35+ Maria Michta-Coffey: November 6, 2016 USATF Race ...