Team members of the United States react after the 4x400m relay mixed round 1 of Athletics at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, Aug. 2, 2024. (Xinhua/Lui Siu Wai) PARIS, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Friday's Paris 2024 athletics action saw a new world record set by the United...
Laure Manaudou of France would finally break Evans’ mark a couple times in 2006, and then Italy’s Federia Pellegrini would be the most recent world record holder, and also becoming the first woman to siwm under 4 minutes, when she did so in a time of 3:59.15 at the FINA World Champ...
A year later,she dropped another world record of 51.41at the USATF Championships in Eugene. The world record holder, who took up running after her parents, had a gradual start to her 2022 season. Just 13 months after her Olympic triumph, she broke the 51-second mark with another magical r...
In similar fashion to the men’s Olympic final, this was not a one-athlete show, either. Fellow American Dalilah Muhammad, the reigning Olympic champion and former world record-holder, ran McLaughlin close and clocked a PB of 51.58 – inside the old world record – for the silv...
The current men's world record is held by Michael Johnson, with a time of 43.18 seconds. The world indoor record holder is Kerron Clement, in 44.57 seconds. The current women's world record is held by Marita Koch, with a time of 47.60 seconds. The reigning Olympic champions are Jeremy ...
Kenyan world record holder Beatrice Chebet held off a late challenge from Italy's Nadia Battocletti to claim gold in the women's 10,000m. Chebet, who became the first woman to break the 29-minute barrier in May, finished in 30 minutes, 43.25, just a tenth of a second ahead of Batto...
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone lowered her world record once again, running the 400-meter hurdles in 50.65 seconds to win the U.S. Olympic trials.
Norway's world record holder regains his world title in Budapest, while the British Virgin Islands claim their first ever World Championships medal through McMaster.
improving on his bronze medal finish at the Beijing Olympics and his runner-up finish to Michael Phelps in the 2007 World Championships.World record-holder Phelps opted not to swim the four-stroke events here.Lochte took full advantage of his absence, breaking Phelps's world record in winning ...
He even plays FIFA online with the world record holder, describing interacting with him as "a big honour" while admitting feeling nervous about their first football computer game encounter. "I could cry actually, when I think about it," he told Olympics.com in an exclusive interview....