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Note: The Road Mile became an official world record event after September 1, 2023, on World Athletics Certified Courses only (i.e: elevation gradient must not exceed one meter per kilometer, start and finish line must not be more than half a mile apart).
The world best time for a "football 40" is 4.17 by Deion Sanders, while the extrapolated best for an Olympic-level athlete (including reacting to a starting gun) is 4.24 by Maurice Greene at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. [252] [253] Under conventional football timing on a turf field in 2017, Christian Coleman reportedly ran a 4.12 ...
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.
Former Des Moines Roosevelt and Drake University great Emma Huston topped the Iowa road racing record for all females by covering the 10-mile race in 57:19 on a windy morning.
May 10, 2015 Great Manchester Run: Manchester, United Kingdom [49] 15 km (road) 42:22 Todd Williams: adidas March 11, 1995 Gate River Run: Jacksonville, United States 10 miles: 45:54 Galen Rupp: Nike 30 October 2020 Dorena, United States Half marathon: 59:43 Ryan Hall: Asics January 14, 2007 Houston Half Marathon: Houston, United States 59:41 a ...
The first person to run the mile (1,760 yards, or 1,609.344 metres) in under four minutes was Roger Bannister in 1954, in a time of 3:59.4. [1] This barrier would not be broken by a high school student until 1964, when Jim Ryun ran the distance in a time of 3:59.0 at the Compton Relays. [ 2 ]
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The fact that the mile run was the only imperial distance to retain its official world record status after 1976 reflects its continued popularity in the international (and principally metric) era. [10] Decades later, the distance remains widespread, and is often used as a benchmark for distance running performance.