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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.
IAAF Statistics Book 2009 – World record progressions (Men's from page 202–222, women's from page 292–309) ... Index of athletics record progressions.
Event Men Record (Year) Women Record (Year) 100 metres: Usain Bolt: 9.58 (2009) Florence Griffith Joyner: 10.49 (1988) 200 metres: Usain Bolt: 19.19 (2009)
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.
The first 3000 m steeplechase world record to be ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) was a run of 8:49.6 minutes by Hungarian Sándor Rozsnyói in 1954. [ 1 ] Before standardization, Sweden's Josef Ternström was the first to complete the event in under ten minutes with his time of 9:49.8 minutes in 1914.
World Women's Road Race Championships: 15 kilometres (road) 1985 – 1991: World Women's Road Race Championships: 20 kilometres (road) 2006: 2006: Replaced the half-marathon in 2006 only at the World Road Running Championships: 50 kilometres race walk (road) 1932 – 2020 (except 1976) 1983 – 2019: 2017 – 2019: Marathon relay (road) 1992 ...
Women have contested events at the World Athletics Championships since its inauguration in 1983. The top three athletes in each event win gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively. The top three athletes in each event win gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively.
The world record in the mile run is the fastest time set by a runner in the middle-distance track and field event. World Athletics is the official body which oversees the records. Hicham El Guerrouj is the current men's record holder with his time of 3:43.13, [1] while Faith Kipyegon has the women's record of 4:07.64. [2]