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For a performance to be ratified as a world record by World Athletics, the marathon course on which the performance occurred must be 42.195 km (26.219 mi) long, [34] measured in a defined manner using the calibrated bicycle method [35] (the distance in kilometers being the official distance; the distance in miles is an approximation) and meet other criteria that rule out artificially fast ...
Indoor tracks longer than 200 meters are considered "oversized" and times are not accepted for record purposes. Indoor sprint races (50 to 60 meters) are held on level straight-aways. American athletes are successful on an international stage with many American records being at the same time world records.
IAAF Trinidad Alfonso World Half Marathon Championships Mass Race: Valencia ESP M60: 1:12:36: Doug Winn United States: 02 Feb 1950: 60: 06 Sep 2010: New Haven Road Race: New Haven, Connecticut USA M65: 1:13:25: Patrick Roussel France: 19 Mar 1947: 67: 12 Oct 2014: Paris FRA M70: 1:43:01: Joseph Cupit France: 21 Feb 1943: 73: 09 Oct 2016: Paris ...
1 World records. Toggle World records subsection. 1.1 Track events. 1.2 Field events. 1.3 Road events. 2 European records. ... Marathon ; 100 kilometres ; 10 km walk ...
Two hours, 2 minutes and 57 seconds. That's the new world record for the fastest marathon time set by Dennis Kimetto in Berlin over the weekend. The Kenyan native became the first person to run 26 ...
Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed by six consecutive records set indoors, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2023 with a 6.22 m mark. In 2020 ...
Kiptum was the first man to run the marathon in under 2 hours, 1 minute in an official race when he set the world record of 2:00.35 in Chicago in October, beating the mark of fellow Kenyan and ...
The following table shows the yearly rankings in the marathon since 1921 (men) and 1970 (women), based on the best performance in the classic distance race of 42.195 km (26 miles 385 yards).