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For example, in 1980, high schools converted their running distances from Imperial (yards) to metric, but instead of running conventional international distances like 1500 metres in place of the mile run, a more equitable but non-standard 1600 meters was chosen. For the two-mile run, they run 3200 meters.
Rollout comes from the drag strip. When you start a quarter-mile run, the timing lights don't start until the front wheel is all the way over the starting line. … approximated by subtracting the first foot of an acceleration run. Now a common substitute is to cut the first 3 mph from a run, cutting as much as 0.3 seconds off the time.
The track is 1/8 of a mile, and depending on class, is contested as a bracket race or a heads-up start on a 5-tenths sportsman tree. Racers' E.T (elapsed time) is determined by age. Drivers age 5 can only test in single-car passes, and can go no faster than 20.00 seconds.
The world record in the mile run is the fastest time set by a runner in the middle-distance track and field event. World Athletics is the official body which oversees the records. Hicham El Guerrouj is the current men's record holder with his time of 3:43.13, [1] while Faith Kipyegon has the women's record of 4:07.64. [2]
As an exception, according to rule 36.2, specific event organizers may choose to ignore wind velocity readings exclusively for their specific event records (e.g. a performance in a 100 m race at a meeting with a wind reading of +2.4 m/s may be considered that specific meeting record, but will not be considered as a world record). [1]
1 August 2007 Knoxville United States 17 years, 170 days High jump: 2.28 m (7 ft 5 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) Dothel Edwards: 9 July 1983 Athens, United States 16 years, 303 days [9] Pole vault: 5.40 m (17 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) Brandon Bray: 10 May 2014 Austin, Texas, United States 17 years, 16 days [10] Long jump: 7.94 m (26 ft 1 ⁄ 2 in) Charles Smith: 30 ...
Over the years, the athletics for soldiers have been revised repeatedly. According to a U.S. Army abstract, the calisthenics and events of "push-ups, sit-ups, and a 2-mile run was introduced in 1980." [2] In 2020, the APFT was phased out for the Army's new physical fitness test, the ACFT. In June 2023, the Senate Committee on Armed Services ...
The mile run and its metric 1500 metres equivalent have been held at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships since its founding in 1965. With the exception of two 1500 m races contested in 1984 and 1985, the mile is the only event on the NCAA schedule that has not transitioned from imperial measurements to metric.