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The Mile race walk is a rarely contested racewalking event. The event is competed as a track race. The event is competed as a track race. Athletes must always keep in contact with the ground and the supporting leg must remain straight until the raised leg passes it.
This is a list of world records for Masters age groups in the sport of road running.The world governing body for masters athletics is World Masters Athletics (WMA). WMA conducts various world championships in what are called "non stadia" events, meaning races not held in the confines of a stadium.
Note: The Road Mile became an official world record event after September 1, 2023, on World Athletics Certified Courses only (i.e: elevation gradient must not exceed one meter per kilometer, start and finish line must not be more than half a mile apart).
The world best time for a "football 40" is 4.17 by Deion Sanders, while the extrapolated best for an Olympic-level athlete (including reacting to a starting gun) is 4.24 by Maurice Greene at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. [246] [247] Under conventional football timing on a turf field in 2017, Christian Coleman reportedly ran a 4.12 ...
Mile walk: 5:38.2 Tim Lewis: Reebok RC January 30, 1987 Inglewood, United States 3000 m walk: 11:16.3 Ray Sharp: East Side TC February 3, 1984 Louisville, United States 2 miles walk: 12:05.94 Jim Heiring: Bud Light February 28, 1986 New York City, United States 5000 m walk: 19:15.88 Tim Seaman: NYAC February 25, 2006 USA Championships: Boston ...
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 ...
The fact that the mile run was the only imperial distance to retain its official world record status after 1976 reflects its continued popularity in the international (and principally metric) era. [10] Decades later, the distance remains widespread, and is often used as a benchmark for distance running performance.
2015-Aug-10 2015 World Masters Athletics Championships: 80-84 36.80 +0.3 Irene Obera: 1933-Dec-07 80 Winston-Salem, North Carolina 2014-Jul-20 USATF Masters Championships 35.69 Irene Obera: 1933-Dec-07 80 San Mateo, California 2014-May-10 Bay Area Senior Games [82] 85-89 51.10 -0.1 Molly MacKown 1918-Feb-27 85 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2003-May-31