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The 2 mile (3,520 yards, [1] 10,560 feet, or exactly 3,218.688 metres) is a historic running distance. Like the mile run , it is still contested at some invitational meets due its historical chronology in the United States and United Kingdom .
Athletics is an African Games event ever since the inaugural edition in Brazzaville, Congo, at the 1965 All-Africa Games, and has continued to feature prominently at the competition in each of its subsequent editions.
South Africa 15 September 1999 1999 Games: Johannesburg, South Africa Pole vault: 4.35 m Miré Reinstorf South Africa 19 March 2024 2023 Games: Accra, Ghana [23] Long jump: 6.79 m Janice Josephs South Africa 21 July 2007 2007 Games: Algiers, Algeria [24] Triple jump: 14.70 m A: Françoise Mbango Etone Cameroon: 18 September 1999 1999 Games
South Africa 4 June 2017 Boost Boston Games Boston, United States [6] 300 m: 30.69 A: Letsile Tebogo Botswana 17 February 2024 Simbine Curro Classic Shoot-Out Pretoria, South Africa [7] 400 m: 43.03 Wayde van Niekerk South Africa 14 August 2016 Olympic Games: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [8] 500 m (road) 57.69 David Rudisha Kenya 10 September 2016
World records in athletics are ratified by World Athletics. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking. Records are kept for all events contested at the Olympic Games and some others. Unofficial records for some other events are kept by track and field statisticians.
The African Championships in Athletics is a continental athletics event organized by the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA), the continental association for the sport in Africa. Since its inaugural edition in 1979 it was at first organised intermittently with nine editions held in fourteen years until 1993.
Four new events were added to the games these were the women's 3000 metres, 10000 metres, 400 metres hurdles and 5000 metres track walk. Additionally the pentathlon for women was replaced with the heptathlon. Also four nations won medals for the first time in athletics at the All-Africa Games. These were Mauritius, Rwanda, Burundi and Madagascar
Filbert Bayi Sanka (born June 23, 1953) is a Tanzanian former middle-distance runner [2] who competed throughout the 1970s. He set the world records for 1500 metres in 1974 and the mile in 1975. His world record in the 1500 m was also the Commonwealth Games record until 2022.