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Paavo Nurmi setting a 3,000 m world record in Berlin in 1926. The following tables shows the world record progression in the men's 3000 metres. World Athletics (formerly known as the IAAF) ratified its first world record in the event in 1912.
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 7 times indoors by two different men since 2000, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2025 with a 6.27 m mark.
Height: 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) Weight: ... Men's 3000 m World Record Holder 1 September 1996 – present ... Incumbent. Preceded by. Haile Gebrselassie. Men's 5000 m ...
The men's world record performance for 3000 m equates to a pace of 58.34 seconds per 400 m, which is closer to the 60.43 seconds for 5000 m than the 55.46 seconds for the mile. However, the 3000 m does require some anaerobic conditioning , and an elite athlete needs to develop a high tolerance to lactic acid , as does the mile runner.
Ethiopia's Lamecha Girma left Wednesday's men's 3,000-meter Olympic steeplechase final on a stretcher after falling and hitting the back of his head on the final lap.
FILE - Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo celebrates his world record of 7 minutes and 26.64 seconds after winning the men's 3000m competition at the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea IAAF Diamond League athletics ...
The first 3000 m steeplechase world record to be ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) was a run of 8:49.6 minutes by Hungarian Sándor Rozsnyói in 1954. [1] Before standardization, Sweden's Josef Ternström was the first to complete the event in under ten minutes with his time of 9:49.8 minutes in 1914.
The world's tallest man, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records, is Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was born in 1918 in Alton, Ill. Standing at a colossal 8'11.1″ (2.72 m) and weighing in at ...