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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. [255][256]Under conventional football timing on a turf field in 2017, Christian Colemanreportedly ran a 4.12.
Of the 35 pool-based events, swimmers from the United States hold fifteen records, Australia five, France four, China, Canada and South Africa two each, and one each to Ireland, Great Britain, Russian Olympic Committee, Hungary, and Sweden. Nineteen of the current Olympic records were set at the 2024 Summer Olympics, seven in 2020, five in 2016 ...
Key No longer contested at the Summer Olympics Men's records Usain Bolt currently holds three Olympic records; two individually in the 100m & 200m, and one with the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team. Ethiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele holds the Olympic record in the 5,000 m. ♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of August 5, 2024 ...
Track events. 50 metres ; 60 metres ... IAAF Statistics Book 2009 – World record progressions (Men's from page 202–222, women's from page 292–309)
Ralph Diseviscourt set the 24 hour outdoor track record at 915.4 kilometres (568.8 mi) in Vianden, Luxembourg on 11 July 2020. [58] Christoph Strasser set the indoor track record at 941.872 kilometres (585.252 mi) at Velodrome Suisse, Grenchen, Switzerland on 14–15 October 2017. [49]
3000 metres steeplechase. The 3000 metres steeplechase or 3000-meter steeplechase (usually abbreviated as 3000m SC) is the most common distance for the steeplechase in track and field. It is an obstacle race over the distance of the 3000 metres, which derives its name from the horse racing steeplechase.
Ross Edgley (born 13 October 1985) is a British athlete, ultra-marathon sea swimmer and author. He holds multiple world records and is known for undertaking athletic adventures around the globe in hostile conditions. [3] He is perhaps most recognised for completing the World's Longest Staged Sea Swim in 2018, [4] when he became the first person ...
Jakob Ingebrigtsen. Jakob Ingebrigtsen (born 19 September 2000) [3] is a Norwegian middle- and long-distance runner who is the current world record holder in the short track 1500 metres, the 2000 metres and the 3000 metres, and holds the world best time over the two mile distance. Ingebrigtsen is a two-time Olympic champion, having won gold ...