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5.60 m Ann-Britt Leyman Sweden: 5.575 m 1952 Helsinki details: Yvette Williams New Zealand: 6.24 m Aleksandra Chudina Soviet Union: 6.14 m Shirley Cawley Great Britain: 5.92 m 1956 Melbourne details: Elżbieta Krzesińska Poland: 6.35 m Willye White United States: 6.09 m Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili Soviet Union: 6.07 m 1960 Rome details: Vera ...
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 ...
In running events up to 200 m in distance and in horizontal jump events, wind assistance is permitted only up to 2.0 m/s. In decathlon or heptathlon, average wind assistance of less than 2.0 m/s is required across all applicable disciplines; and maximum of 4.0 m/s in any one event. As an exception, according to rule 36.2, specific event ...
Similarly, Verna Volker, founder of Native Women Running, an Instagram account that uplifts native women runners, noticed there was a lack of representation for her community in the sport as she ...
The running boom of the 1970s occurred in high- and middle-income countries. It was particularly pronounced in the United States and occurred in other countries including the United Kingdom and other European countries, Australia and New Zealand. [1][2] The boom was primarily a 'jogging' movement in which running was generally limited to ...
When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama.
The show remained popular in the 1970s, but ratings declined and the last edition produced by ABC came in 1984. NBC Sports picked up the program the next year and carried it from 1985 to 1990. ABC took the show back in 1991, and broadcast it through 1994. During a three-year period (1991–1993) the event was held in Cancun, Mexico.
1876 – In the first women's boxingmatch held in the United States, Nell Saunders defeated Rose Harland. Her prize was a silver butter dish. [15] 1882 – The YWCA of Boston sponsored the first ever athletic gamesfor women. [15] 1884 – Maud Watson, of England, won the first Ladies' Singles title at Wimbledon.