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Henry Carr's winning time at the 1964 Olympics (17 October) was a hand timed 20.3 seconds. The electronic time was 20.36 seconds, which was the fastest auto time to that date. Tommie Smith ran 20.26 for 220 yards at Provo in 1967. By deducting .12 seconds for the 200 metre equivalent, he is estimated to have run 20.14 for that distance. [4]: 45
Johnson has run 200 m in under 19.80 seconds six times, and he has run the distance in less than 20 seconds twenty-three times. He holds nine of the top 50 200 m performances of all time. [22] Johnson has run twenty-two 400 m races in under 44 seconds; he holds twenty-two of the top 50 and four of the top ten 400 m performances of all time. [22]
An Olympic double of 200 m and 400 m was first achieved by Valerie Brisco-Hooks in 1984, and later by Michael Johnson from the United States and Marie-José Pérec of France both in 1996. Usain Bolt is the only man to repeat as Olympic champion, Bärbel Wöckel (née Eckert), Veronica Campbell-Brown and Elaine Thompson-Herah are the three women ...
Noah Lyles ended his season by winning the Diamond League Final 200m in 19.52 seconds in Zurich, giving him five of the 13 fastest times in history.
Below is a list of current Australian records in athletics as ratified by the national governing body, Athletics Australia.There are two types of Australian records. An Australian record is the best time recorded anywhere in the world by an athlete or team holding Australian citizenship whilst an Australian All Comers record is the best time recorded in Australia by an athlete or team.
The home run was Judge's MLB-best 43rd of the season. Judge also surpassed Yankees legend Babe Ruth by getting to 300 in 3,428 career at-bats. Ruth reached the number in 3,830 at-bats.
In the 4 × 100 m relay, Lewis anchored the gold-medal team to a time of 37.90 s, the third-fastest of all time. [49] The 100 m final was the most talked about event and caused the most drama. Johnson had run under 10.00 s three times in the year before Rome, [50] while Lewis had not managed to get under the 10.00 s barrier at all.
Richard "Torpedo" Thompson (born 7 June 1985) [3] is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago who specializes in the 100 metres.His personal best of 9.82 seconds, set in June 2014, was one of the top ten fastest of all time, and a national record.