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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.
Record mark [108] 26.87 m Israel del Toro United States 14 May 2016 Tempe, United States F46 52.85 m Erik Fabian Kaurin Croatia 14 July 2024 Zagreb Open Zagreb, Croatia [116] F51 13.40 m Benjamin Cardenas Chile 26 May 2023 World Para Athletics Grand Prix Nottwil, Switzerland [108] F52 27.06 m Rigivan Ganeshamoorthy Italy 1 September 2024
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 ...
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.
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 ...
dq1 The United States team of Kelli White, Chryste Gaines, Inger Miller, and Marion Jones originally won the 2001 World Championship in a time of 41.71 seconds, but were disqualified after Jones and White were found to have used performance-enhancing drugs.
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]