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World U20 records in the sport of athletics are ratified by World Athletics. Athletics records comprise the best performance of an athlete before the year of their 20th birthday. Technically, in all under 20 age divisions, the age is calculated "on December 31 of the year of competition" [1] to avoid age group switching during a competitive ...
Track and Field News: American U20 records – Men Outdoor 11 September 2024 updated; Track and Field News: American U20 records – Women Outdoor 12 June 2024 updated; Track and Field News: American U20 records – Men Indoor 21 February 2025 updated; Track and Field News: American U20 records – Women Indoor 6 July 2024 updated; Specific
United States Youth records in athletics are the best marks set in an event by an American athlete who will not reach their 18th birthday in the given year of competition. USATF , the United States governing body, does not keep records for the youth division.
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.
Record Athlete Nationality Date Meet Place Ref 100 m: 10.03 (+0.7 m/s) Marcus Rowland United States: 2009 2009 Championships: Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 200 m: 20.13 (+0.0 m/s) Usain Bolt Jamaica: July 2003 2003 Championships: Bridgetown, Barbados 400 m: 44.99 Jamal Walton Cayman Islands 21 July 2017 2017 Championships: Trujillo, Peru ...
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.
Alan Webb, the high school record holder. This is a list of American high school students who have run a four-minute mile since the feat was first accomplished in 1964.. The first person to run the mile (1,760 yards, or 1,609.344 metres) in under four minutes was Roger Bannister in 1954, in a time of 3:59.4. [1]
World U20 Championships: Tampere, Finland 19 years, 171 days [19] Shot put (7.26 kg) 20.65 m Michael Carter United States 4 July 1979 Boston, United States 18 years, 248 days [20] Discus throw (1.750 kg) 66.88 m Traves Smikle Jamaica: 31 March 2011 Inter-Secondary Schools Boys and Girls Championships: Kingston, Jamaica 18 years, 328 days [21]