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The first world record in the mile for women was recognized by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (later known as the International Association of Athletics Federations and currently known as World Athletics), in 1967. To June 21, 2009, the IAAF has ratified 13 world records in the event. [39]
Surasa Mairer, World Record holder for 1000 km and 1300 miles (18 days) Takahiro Sunada, former men's 100 km Road world record holder (6:13:33, Lake Saroma Ultramarathon, 1998) [110] Ted Corbitt, "the father of American ultrarunning"; 1952 US Olympic team member; former American world record holder at various distances [111]
His 100-mile (160.934 kilometers) world record was a time of 11:14:56, and his 12-hour world record was a distance of 105.825 miles/170.309 kilometers. Sorokin kept overall pace for the 12 hours of running at a 6:48 minutes per mile (4:14 per kilometer).
Bitter continued to run another 40 minutes to set the 12-hour world record at 104.9 miles. Runner Zach Bitter sets 100-mile and 12-hour world records Skip to main content
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 ...
Chasing records: 100-mile world-record runner Taggart VanEtten. VanEtten, who is an insurance agent and coach, is currently training to set a personal-best marathon time in November. He wants to ...
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.
Since 2015, she has set numerous Ultramarathon world and American records/bests between 50 miles and 6 days. [28] [29] [30] In 2023, she improved the women's 48Hr world record by 14.8 miles to 270.505 miles (435.336 km), the third-best performance in the world behind only two men. She is the first woman to hold an outright American record.