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Decathlon record holder Dmitriy Karpov is a World Championship and Olympic medallist. Asian records in athletics are the best marks set in an event by an athlete who competes for a member nation of the Asian Athletics Association. The organisation is responsible for ratification and it analyses each record before approving it.
The Asian Games is a quadrennial event which began in 1951. The Olympic Council of Asia accepts only athletes who are representing one of the organisation's member states (most of which are within Asia) and recognises records set at editions of the Asian Games. The Games records in athletics are the
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 ...
The Asian Championships in Athletics is a quadrennial event which began in 1973. Asian Athletics Association accepts only athletes who are representing one of the organisation's Asian member states and the body recognises records set at editions of the Asian Athletics Championships.
On 1 August 2021, Su clocked a time of 9.827 seconds to win his heat of the 2020 Summer Olympics men's 100 m semi-finals, thereby setting a new Asian record and becoming the second Asian sprinter to have ever qualified for a men's 100 metres Olympic final, after Takayoshi Yoshioka at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the first Asian to qualify for ...
Chinese Grand Prix Final Guiyang, China [22] Triple jump: 17.59 m (±0.0 m/s) Li Yanxi: 26 October 2009 Chinese National Games: Jinan, China [23] Shot put: 20.41 m Zhang Jun: 11 December 2009 East Asian Games: Hong Kong [24] Discus throw: 65.16 m Li Shaojie: 7 May 1996 Chinese Championships Nanjing, China Hammer throw: 77.04 m Bi Zhong: 4 ...
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. The 10,000 record would remain on the books as the world record until the 2016 Olympics when it was smashed by Ethiopian Almaz Ayana .
Although he was not considered a favourite for the event [citation needed], he won the Olympic final by some distance to pocket the gold medal with 12.91 seconds, tying the world record set by Colin Jackson 11 years before. [13] This was a new Olympic record and was almost three tenths of a second faster than the runner-up Terrence Trammell.