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The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000m should be classified as a middle-distance or long-distance event. [ 1 ]
The following table shows the world record progression in the Women's 3,000 metres. The first record officially recognised by the IAAF was set on 6 July 1974 by Lyudmila Bragina from the Soviet Union. As of June 21, 2009, the IAAF has ratified nine world records in the event. [1]
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.The International Amateur Athletics Federation, now known as the International Association of Athletics Federations, ratified its first world record in the event in 1912.
Masters athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of over 35 years of age. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running.These are the current world records in various five-year-groups, maintained by WMA, the World Association of Masters Athletes, which is designated by the World Athletics (formerly IAAF) to conduct the worldwide sport of Masters ...
The women's vault record has been advanced 9 times indoors by three different women, each ratified as a world record. The last record to be set indoors was in 2004. 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.
Flying 200m time trial (sea level) 9.088 Harrie Lavreysen Netherlands 7 August 2024 Olympic Games: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France [2] 250 m time trial (standing start) 16.949 Leigh Hoffman Australia 12 October 2022 World Championships: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France [8] 250 m time trial (standing start) (sea level) 16.949 Leigh Hoffman ...
Middle-distance running events are track races longer than sprints, ranging from 500 metres up to two miles (3218.688 metres). The standard middle distances are the 800 metres , 1500 metres and mile run , although the 3000 metres may also be classified as a middle-distance event. [ 1 ]
The first person to run the steeplechase in under eight minutes was Moses Kiptanui of Kenya, who ran it in 7:59.18 on 16 August 1995, in Zürich, Switzerland. The women's 3000 m steeplechase was recognized as an official world record event as of January 1, 2000 [update] , recognizing Yelena Motalova 's time of 9:48.88 from 1999 as the inaugural ...