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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.
Website. gasparillapiratefest.com. 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 ...
Haile Gebrselassie, considered one of the greatest distance runners of all time, was the 1996 and 2000 Olympic gold medalist in the 10,000 m, and held the 5000 m and 10,000 m world records from 1998 until 2004 with a mark of 12:39.36 and 26:22.75 respectively (still the second best athlete of all time). He also held the marathon world record ...
Sound Running On Track Fest Walnut, United States [38] 14:43.94 Laura Galván: 23 August 2023 World Championships: Budapest, Hungary [39] 10000 m: 31:10.12 Adriana Fernández: 1 July 2000 Maine Distance Festival Brunswick, United States 31:04.08 Laura Galván: 4 March 2023 Sound Running THE TEN San Juan Capistrano, United States [40] 5 km (road ...
Mile run world record progression. The world record in the mile run is the fastest time set by a runner in the middle-distance track and field event. World Athletics is the official body which oversees the records. Hicham El Guerrouj is the current men's record holder with his time of 3:43.13, [ 1 ] while Faith Kipyegon has the women's record ...
Marathon. Alberto Salazar (born August 7, 1958) is an American former track coach and long-distance runner. Born in Cuba, Salazar immigrated to the United States as a child with his family, living in Connecticut and then in Wayland, Massachusetts, where Salazar competed in track and field in high school. Salazar won the New York City Marathon ...
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.