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The race weekend includes seven races: a 1.2 km kids marathon, 2K, 5K, 10K, half marathon, wheelchair marathon, and marathon. [3] All of the races start and finish at Ottawa City Hall. [3] The signature event of the weekend is the Ottawa Marathon, which was first held in 1975.
For a performance to be ratified as a world record by World Athletics, the marathon course on which the performance occurred must be 42.195 km (26.219 mi) long, [34] measured in a defined manner using the calibrated bicycle method [35] (the distance in kilometers being the official distance; the distance in miles is an approximation) and meet other criteria that rule out artificially fast ...
15:00: Martin Rees United Kingdom: 28 Feb 1953: 50: 23 Jul 2003: Cardiff WAL M55: 15:31: Martin Rees United Kingdom: 28 Feb 1953: 55: 17 Jul 2008: Gloucester ENG M60: 16:06: Martin Rees United Kingdom: 28 Feb 1953: 61: 06 Aug 2014: Cardiff WAL M65: 17:23: Ed Whitlock Canada: 06 Mar 1931: 67: 04 Sep 1998: Buffalo, New York USA M70: 18:21: Ed ...
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Rabbits Abel Kirui, Elijah Keitany [] and Wilson Kigen [] pacing Haile Gebrselassie and Charles Kamathi at the Berlin Marathon 2008. A pacemaker or pacesetter, sometimes informally called a rabbit, [1] is a runner who leads a middle-or long-distance running event for the first section to ensure a high speed and to avoid excessive tactical racing.
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.
The following table shows the yearly rankings in the marathon since 1921 (men) and 1970 (women), based on the best performance in the classic distance race of 42.195 km (26 miles 385 yards). The data for the women's marathon from 1970 to 1979 is compiled from the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races . [ 1 ]
Marathon: 2:05:38 Khalid Khannouchi: New Balance April 14, 2002 London Marathon: London, United Kingdom 2:04:58 a [a] Ryan Hall: Asics April 18, 2011 Boston Marathon: Boston, United States [7] 110 m hurdles: 12.80 (+0.3 m/s) Aries Merritt: Reebok September 7, 2012 Memorial Van Damme: Brussels, Belgium [8] 400 m hurdles: 46.17 Rai Benjamin ...