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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.
Steve Roland "Pre" Prefontaine [1] (January 25, 1951 – May 30, 1975) was an American long-distance runner who from 1973 to 1975 set American records at every distance from 2,000 to 10,000 meters. [2] [3] He competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics, [4] and he was preparing for the 1976 Olympics with the Oregon Track Club at the time of his death ...
Masters world record holder died on his daily 7 mile training run [26] 13 Aug 1994: Simon Robert Naali Tanzania: 28: Marathon: Died from hit-and-run injuries. [27] 1 Oct 1994: Oluyemi Kayode Nigeria: 26: 200 metres: Car crash. [28] 29 Jul 1996: Georgi Dakov Bulgaria: 28: High jump: Car accident. [29] 8 Aug 1998: Walter Merlo Italy: 33: Long ...
Athletics records progressions outline the lineage and improvement of the best ratified marks in a particular athletics event. World records. Track events. 50 metres ...
Also in 1981, Lewis became the fastest 100 m sprinter in the world. His relatively modest best from 1979 (10.67 s) improved to a world-class 10.21 the next year. But 1981 saw him run 10.00 s at the Southwest Conference Championships in Dallas on May 16, a time that was the third-fastest in history and stood as the low-altitude record. [17]
She is ranked fourth on the all-time list over 60 metres (indoor), eighth on the all-time list over 100 metres and sixth on the all-time list over 200 metres. She is the current world indoor record holder for 200 metres with 21.87 seconds, set in 1993. She was named Jamaican Sportswoman of the Year 13 times between 1979 and 1995.
Haile Gebrselassie, considered one of the greatest distance runners of all time, was the 1996 and 2000 Olympic gold medalist in the 10,000 m, and held the 5000 m and 10,000 m world records from 1998 until 2004 with a mark of 12:39.36 and 26:22.75 respectively (still the second best athlete of all time). He also held the marathon world record ...
The Years listed for each athlete only include the Games in which they won medals. More detailed information is provided in the linked articles for the individual athletes. In cases where two or more athletes have the same number of total medals, the first tiebreaker is the number of gold medals, followed by the number of silver medals.