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The first record officially recognised by World Athletics (formerly the IAAF) was set on 6 July 1974 by Lyudmila Bragina from the Soviet Union. As of June 21, 2009, the IAAF has ratified nine world records in the outdoor event. [1]
In less than a month, she went on to win the 3000 m and 10,000 m in the Chinese National Games with three world records in three races. On 8 September 1993, she won the 10,000 m final in a world record of 29:31.78, which bettered the former record by 42 seconds and was also the first-ever sub-30 minute performance in this event.
In women's athletics, 3000 metres was a standard event in the Olympic Games (1984 to 1992) [2] and World Championships (1980 to 1993). [3] The event was discontinued at World Championship and Olympic level after the 1993 World Championships in Athletics , with Qu Yunxia being the final gold medal winner at the event.
The women's vault record has been advanced 9 times indoors by three different women, each ratified as a world record. The last record to be set indoors was in 2004. 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.
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 ...
Tokyo Marathon: Tokyo, Japan [29] 50 km (road) 2:48:32 Chris Balestrini: 21 May 2021 Hamilton, Canada [30] 100 km (road) 6:33:57 Andrew Jones 14 December 1991 New Orleans, United States 110 m hurdles: 13.08 (+1.2 m/s) Mark McKoy: 1 July 1993 Lille, France 400 m hurdles: 48.24 Adam Kunkel: 27 July 2007 Pan American Games: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ...
Record Athlete Date Meet Place Ref. Video 100 m: 10.61 A (−0.4 m/s) Wetere Galcha: 30 April 2008 African Championships: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 10.1 A h # Egzi Gebre-Gebre: 6 June 1971 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 10.52 A NWI: Amanuel Abebe: 27 June 2013 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 200 m: 21.30 Wetere Galcha: 31 May 2007 Kampala, Uganda 20.7 A # Negussie ...
Salvatore Antibo, winner of 5000 m 10,000 double at 1990 European Championships in Athletics in Split; Saïd Aouita, ranked among the world's best at all distances between 800 metres and 5000 m in the 1980s, a gold medalist at the 1984 Olympics, and like Nurmi, was the world record holder for 1500 m, 3:29.46 in 1985, and 5000 m, 13:00.40 in 1985 and 12:58.39 in 1987