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100m hurdles (83.8 cm) 12.84 (+1.2 m/s) Tia Jones: 25 June 2016 United States Junior Championships Clovis, United States 15 years, 291 days [26] 400 m hurdles: 54.15 Sydney McLaughlin: 10 July 2016 United States Olympic Trials: Eugene, United States 16 years, 338 days [27] High jump: 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) Vashti Cunningham: 1 August 2015 Edmonton ...
5000 m race walk (track) 20:13.69 Oscar Patín Ecuador 11 October 2018 2018 Games: Buenos Aires, Argentina [10] 10000 m race walk (track) 42:03.64 Minoru Onogawa Japan 24 August 2014 2014 Games: Nanjing, China
In 2023, World Athletics decided to introduce the new term 'short track' to replace the previous term 'indoor' to describe events and performances that are set on a 200m track. [170] For track and combined events, the term "indoor world records" were changed to "short track world records".
Jim Hines' October 1968 Olympic gold medal run was the fastest recorded fully electronic 100 metre race up to that date, at 9.95 seconds. [2] Track and Field News has compiled an unofficial list of automatically timed records starting with the 1964 Olympics and Bob Hayes' gold medal performance there. Those marks are included in the progression.
Across the sport of track and field, Olympic 100 m champions have often featured on Athlete of the Year lists. Carl Lewis (1984), Evelyn Ashford (1984), Florence Griffith-Joyner (1988), Usain Bolt (2008) and Elaine Thompson-Herah (2021) were chosen as Track & Field News Athlete of the Year in the year of their Olympic victories. [ 148 ]
For the two-mile run, they run 3200 meters. For the long-hurdle race, they run 300 meters instead of the 400 metres hurdles. Some states ran over lower hurdle heights for a period of time. In field events, boys throw different weights of their implements than with international open division or the more comparable junior-division implements.
The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the 100-meter (109.36 yd) dash is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1928 for women.
The two basic features of a track and field stadium are the outer oval-shaped running track and an area of turf within this track—the field. In earlier competitions, track lengths varied: the Panathinaiko Stadium measured 333.33 metres at the 1896 Summer Olympics , while at the 1904 Olympics the distance was a third of a mile (536.45 m) at ...