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Christian Coleman breaking the 60 m world record. In 2023, World Athletics decided to introduce the new term 'short track' to replace the previous term 'indoor' to describe events and performances that are set on a 200m track. [170] For track and combined events, the term "indoor world records" were changed to "short track world records".
The World Athletics Championships is a biennial event which began in 1983. Organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the World Championships are a competition comprising track and field athletics events available to male and female athletes from any of the IAAF's 213 member federations.
World records (current olympic events only) as of 13 October 2024 Bolded, italicized records with two asterisks (**) are pending ratification by World Athletics . Event
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 ...
Download QR code ; Print/export ... move to sidebar hide. Athletics records progressions outline the lineage and improvement ... IAAF Statistics Book 2009 – World ...
This category is for the sport of athletics, comprising track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking.It is not to be used for competitors in other sports or to categorize anyone who is physically fit, two other meanings associated with the word athletics.
The world records for this age group are ratified by World Masters Athletics, the global sports body for masters track and field. [1] National bodies, such as the USA Masters division of USATF , may also retain national records for the best performances in athletics events recorded by athletes aged 100 and over. [ 2 ]
National records in athletics are the marks achieved by a nation's best athlete or athletes in a particular athletics event. These records are ratified by the respective national athletics governing body. A national record may also be the respective continental record (also called "area record" (AR)), or even the world record (WR) in that event.