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The World Athletics Road Running Championships is a biennial international road running competition organised by World Athletics. The competition was launched as the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 1992 and held annually until 2010. [ 1 ]
The 2023 World Athletics Road Running Championships took place in Riga, Latvia, on 1 October 2023. [2] [3] [4] As the inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships, they included the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships, which were last held in 2020. [4] [5] [a] A flat, single-lap marathon course in the Baltics' largest city. All ...
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.
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 ...
In road events, the course must be accurately measured, by a certified measurer. Except in road events (road running and race walking), the performance must be set in a single-sex race, [2] with the sole exception of the mixed-sex 4 × 400 m relay, introduced by World Athletics in 2017. [3] All team members in a relay race must be of the same ...
30 km (road) 1:28:38+ Ryan Hall: ASICS April 13, 2008 London Marathon: London, United Kingdom 1:28:23+ a # April 18, 2011 Boston Marathon: Boston, United States 50 km (road) 2:38:43 CJ Albertson: October 8, 2022 Ruth Anderson Memorial Run 50k San Francisco, United States [55] 50 miles (road) 4:48:21 Charlie Lawrence: 11 November 2023 Tunnel ...
This list of the largest running events in the world is based on the number of participants. If available, the number of "registered" participants or finishers may be specified. Not all participants will actually complete a race. Running USA's Road Running Information Center estimates that, on average, 80%-85% of registrants will complete a ...
Road running is the sport of running on a measured course over an established road. This differs from track and field on a regular track and cross country running over natural terrain. These events are usually classified as long-distance according to athletics terminology, with races typically ranging from 5 kilometers to 42.2 kilometers in the ...