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Gasparilla Distance Classic. The Gasparilla Distance Classic is a road race which is held in late February or early March on Bayshore Boulevard in Tampa, Florida. Over 30,000 competitors participate each year. [1] It is named after the Gasparilla Pirate Festival, which takes place on Tampa's Bayshore Boulevard a few weeks earlier.
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 Greeneat the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. [249][250]Under conventional football timing on a turf field in 2017, Christian Colemanreportedly ran a 4.12.
The Gasparilla Pirate Festival (often simply referred to as Gasparilla[ 1 ] / ˌɡæspəˈrɪlə / ⓘ) is a large parade and a host of related community events held in Tampa, Florida, United States, most years since 1904. [ 2 ] The centerpiece of the festivities is the Parade of Pirates, which is framed as a friendly invasion by the crew of ...
World Race Walking Team Championships: Rome, Italy [52] 20000 m walk (track) 1:33:26.74 Maria Guadalupe González: 16 June 2017 Monterrey, Mexico 20 km walk (road) 1:26:17 María Guadalupe González: 7 May 2016 World Race Walking Team Championships: Rome, Italia [53] 35 km walk (road) 2:53:01 Alejandra Ortega: 23 April 2022 Dudinská Päťdesiatka
Christopher Chataway, set a 5000 m world record of 13 minutes 51.6 seconds in 1954, and was a pacesetter when Roger Bannister ran the first ever sub-4 minute mile that same year. Ron Clarke, held the 10,000 meter world record for eight years. Eamonn Coghlan, World 5000m champion 1983.
Contents. List of United States records in masters athletics. These are the current records in the various age groups of masters athletics for United States competitors. Starting at age 35, each age group starts on the athlete's birthday in years that are evenly divisible by 5 and extends until the next such occurrence.
The distance of the marathon at the Olympics has varied in the early years, before being standardized at 42,195 m in 1924, the distance that was run at the 1908 Olympics. In other years, the distances have been: 1896: 40,000 m (approximately) 1900: 40,260 m (25.02 mi) 1904: 40,000 m (24.85 mi) 1912: 40,200 m (24.98 mi) 1920: 40,750 m (25.32 mi)
The 10,000 metres at the Summer Olympics is the longest track running event held at the multi-sport event. The men's 10,000 m has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1912. The women's event was added to the programme over seventy years later, at the 1988 Olympics. It is the most prestigious 10,000 m race at elite level.