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The one hour run is an athletics event in which competitors try to cover as much distance as possible within one hour. While officially recognized by World Athletics as a track event, it is rarely contested apart from occasional world record attempts. The event has a long history, with first recorded races dating back to the late 17th century. [1]
Christian Coleman breaking the 60 m world record. In 2023, World Athletics decided to introduce the new term 'short track' to replace the previous term 'indoor' to describe events and performances that are set on a 200m track. [171] For track and combined events, the term "indoor world records" were changed to "short track world records".
In 1972, Eddy Merckx set a new hour record at 49.431 km (30.715 mi) in Mexico City at an altitude of 2,300 m (7,500 ft) where he proclaimed it to have been "the hardest ride I have ever done". [12] The record would stand for 12 years until in January 1984, Francesco Moser set a new record at 51.151 km (31.784 mi).
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 ...
On 30 March 1991, Arturo Barrios ran a world record distance of 21.101 km in one hour, becoming the first man to run the half marathon distance in under one hour. [11] On 3 April 1993, Moses Tanui became the first man to run a half marathon race in under one hour, with a time of 59:47. [12]
25 km (road) 1:13:09 Diego Estrada: 11 May 2024 Amway River Bank Run (USA 25 km Open and Masters Championships) Grand Rapids, United States [53] 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 ...
Athletics records progressions outline the lineage and improvement of the best ratified marks in a ... 60 metres 100 ... 10 km walk ; 20 km ...