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Crockett was a track star from his time at high school in Webster Groves in St. Louis County, Missouri. In 1968 as a senior he ran the second fastest time that year by a high-school student. He was recruited to Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, where he competed successfully on their track team, including becoming twice USA ...
Steve Prefontaine. Steve Roland " Pre " Prefontaine[1] (January 25, 1951 – May 30, 1975) was a US-American long-distance runner who from 1973 to 1975 set American records at every distance from 2,000 to 10,000 meters. [2][3] He competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics, [4] and was preparing for the 1976 Olympics with the Oregon Track Club at the ...
Bonneville Speedway (also known as the Bonneville Salt Flats Race Track) is an area of the Bonneville Salt Flats northeast of Wendover, Utah, that is marked out for motor sports. It is particularly noted as the venue for numerous land speed records. The Bonneville Salt Flats Race Track is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [ 1 ]
Greatest improvement from starting position to finishing position (33-car field): 31 positions, 33rd to 2nd Tom Sneva, 1980; 31 positions, 33rd to 2nd Scott Goodyear, 1992; Most consecutive laps completed without falling out of competition: 2,310 laps, Hélio Castroneves, 2007-2018 (from the start of the 2007 race through lap 145 of 2018 race)
Born in Luhansk, Sergey Nazarovych Bubka was a track-and-field athlete in the 100-meter dash and the long jump, but became a world-class champion only when he turned to the pole vault. In 1983, he won the world championship in Helsinki, Finland, and the following year set his first world record, clearing 5.85m (19 ft 2 in).
Record Athlete Date Meet Place Ref 100 m: 10.08 (-0.3 m/s) Eddie Osei-Nketia: 15 July 2022 World Championships: Eugene, United States [2] 200 m: 20.37 (+0.1 m/s) Joseph Millar: 19 March 2017 New Zealand Championships: Hamilton, New Zealand [3] 400 m: 46.09 Shaun Farrell: 7 March 1998 Wanganui, New Zealand 800 m: 1:44.04 James Preston: 25 May ...
1500 m. 2004. 1500 m. Alan Webb (born January 13, 1983) is an American former track and field athlete and former triathlete. He held the American national record in the mile, with a time of 3 minutes 46.91 seconds, from July 2007 to September 2023. Webb represented the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's 1500-meters race.
Carl Lewis. Frederick Carlton Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold. Lewis was a dominant sprinter and long jumper whose career spanned from 1979 to 1996, when he last won the Olympic long jump.