Both Bolt and Griffith-Joyner also hold the respective world records for the 200m. In both instances, both athletes also broke the 200m record in the same year that they previously broke the 100m record. Bolt ran the fastest 200m ever recorded, 19.19 seconds, to take gold at the ...
The Danish middle-distance runner Wilson Kipketer was the second fastest of all time over the 800m, setting the world record and breaking his own record two more times in 1997 (1:41.11m). Wilson dominated the 800m distance for a decade, remaining undefeated for three years. Near...
Kosgei had nearly two minutes on the two Ethiopians. Her time was the third-fastest by a woman in history, but Kosgei seemed a little disappointed as she accepted her winner’s medal, trophy, and wreath. She said that the wind in the final stretches...
In 2006, she competed at the commonwealth games and in 2011 at the Pan Am games as a 1,500m specialist where she ran one of the fastest times ever by a Canadian woman at 4:02.64. In 2010 she briefly decided to retire, however seven years later in January of 2019 when ...