Byline: The Register-Guard100 metersWorld record: 10.49 American record: 10.49 Hayward record: 10.78WC `A' standard: 11.30Name Age Residence PR1, Carmelita Jeter 29 Inglewood, Calif. 10.962, Lauryn Williams 25 Miami 10.903, Marshevet Hooker 24 San Antonio 10.934, Muna Lee 27 College Station, ...
With a time of 10.61 seconds, the latest in the long string of Jamaican speed stars defended her Olympic title in the 100 meters Saturday. She broke a 33-year-old Olympic record held by none other than Florence Griffith Joyner. And, as a more-than-fitting bonus, she revisited a debate ...
The 270 meters long bridge is the largest pedestrian bridge built so far in Iran.Design of this bridge was the result of a two-phase competition which started in May 2008. The winning design was selected in August of the following year. It was inaugurated in October 2014. The architect’s...
Peitrie soon dropped out at 100 kilometers. Perdon also improved Tarrant’s 150K world mark by 4 minutes with a time of 11:32:35 and then clipped Tarrant’s 12-hour record with a new distance of 96 miles, 1426 yards. Perdon, age 45, achieved his goal and broke Tarrant’s 100-mile...
Australia's Kaylee McKeown knocked off Minnesota native and world-record holder Regan Smith in the 100 back on Tuesday night inParis, defending the title she won at the Tokyo Games. Smith, whobroke McKeown's world mark with a time of 57.13 seconds at the U.S. trials last month, ...
On the track, China's star sprinter Su Bingtian, the co-holder of the Asian 100 meters record, qualified as the winner of heat 4 at 10.27 seconds with his teammate Xu Zhouzheng. A relatively slow reaction time of 0.154s cost Su's chance to lead at the start, but his extraordinary ac...
As the mile record was being re-written throughout the ‘70s, a future star was rising in the U.S. Mark Decker – later Mary Slaney – first drew international attention by winning the 800 meters in a USA vs. USSR dual meet in 1972, at age 14. She won the first of her six Mill...
Sandy Combs won three events Saturday to lead the UC Santa Barbara men's track team to an 88-71 dual-meet victory over UC Irvine on the Anteaters' campus.
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Griffith Joyner carries the American flag after winning the 100 meters in world-record time at the 1988 Summer Olympics. (Mike Powell/Allsport/Getty Images) At the 1988 Summer Olympics, “Flo-Jo” won both the 100 and 200 meters — and to this day she still holds the world record in bo...