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A national record may also be the respective continental record (also called "area record" (AR)), or even the world record (WR) in that event. Record lists The ...
The world record for women is 29:01.03 by Letesenbet Gidey of Ethiopia set on 8 June 2021. The One hour run is an endurance race that is rarely contested, except in pursuit of world records. The 20,000 metres is also rarely contested, most world records in the 20,000 metres have been set while in a one-hour run race.
Salvatore Antibo, winner of 5000 m 10,000 double at 1990 European Championships in Athletics in Split; Saïd Aouita, ranked among the world's best at all distances between 800 metres and 5000 m in the 1980s, a gold medalist at the 1984 Olympics, and like Nurmi, was the world record holder for 1500 m, 3:29.46 in 1985, and 5000 m, 13:00.40 in 1985 and 12:58.39 in 1987
In the United States, the form World's Record was formerly more common. The term The World's Best was also briefly in use. The latter term is still used in athletics events, including track and field and road running to describe good and bad performances that are not recognized as an official world record: either because it is not an event where World Athletics tracks the record (e.g. the 150 ...
Colin Jackson broke the 110 metre hurdles world record in 1993; a record which stood for over a decade. Mike Powell's world record long jump at the 1991 Championships has never been bettered. Double record holder Michael Johnson has held the 400 metres world record with his run in Seville for over 20 years. Key to tables:
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. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed by six consecutive records set indoors, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2023 with a 6.22 m mark. In 2020 ...
Garside's first effort from Cape Town, South Africa, in early 1996 was abandoned in Namibia, [5] and his second attempt, begun on 7 December 1996, started from London's Piccadilly Circus [5] [8] but was abandoned at the Russia-Kazakhstan border around June 1997; Garside initially covered up the break in running with fabricated diary entries (), for which he later apologised saying that he had ...
24-hour run: 270.363 km Miho Nakata Japan 2 December 2023 IAU 24 Hour World Championship: Taipei, Taiwan [52] 100 m hurdles: 12.44 (−0.8 m/s) Olga Shishigina Kazakhstan 27 June 1995 Lucerne, Switzerland 400 m hurdles: 53.09 Kemi Adekoya Bahrain 24 August 2023 World Championships: Budapest, Hungary [53] 2000 m steeplechase: 5:54.16+ Ruth Jebet ...