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Violet Stewart Louisa Piercy (24 December 1889 [1] – 11 April 1972) was an English long-distance runner who is recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations as having set the first women's world best in the marathon on 3 October 1926 with a time of 3:40:22.
The first woman to do so, she completed the swim in fourteen hours, thirty-one minutes, setting a new record. [65] 1926 – Violet Piercy, an English long-distance runner, was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations as having set the first women's world best in the marathon on 3 October with a time of 3:40:22.
Before 1966, the longest Amateur Athletic Union (AAU)-sanctioned race for women was one and a half miles. Until 1972, when the first women's division marathon opened, the Boston Marathon was an AAU men's division race. Under the AAU rules, women are not qualified to run in men's division races. [12] [13] Gibb trained for two years to run the ...
2014: The first women competed in ski jumping at the Olympics. [155] 2014: Jennifer Welter became the first female non-kicker or placekick-holder to play in a men's pro football game; she played running back for the Texas Revolution. [156] 2014: Abbey Holmes became the first woman to kick 100 goals in one regular season of Australian Rules ...
One year later, in October 2005, she became the first woman to free climb the Salathé Wall, on El Capitan, [2] The route is rated 5.13b/c, is 35 pitches, and approximately 3,200 feet (980 m) long. [ 1 ] [ 12 ] The difficulty of the climb can be described as "spidering up the side of a skyscraper, climbing to [handholds] no bigger than lentils ...
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Chepng'etich won the women's only road race at the 40th Istanbul Marathon, a World Athletics Label Road Race.She ran 2:18:35, with split times of 31:59 at 10 km, 48:15 at 15 km, 1:08:22 at the half marathon mark, and 1:37:42 at 30 km. Chepng'etich's performance was a course record, the best performance ever on Turkish soil, and, at the time, was the seventh fastest time in history.