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Age Restriction: Applications for this record title will only be accepted if the applicant is 16 years of age or over. The fastest one mile (1.6 km) sack race is 16 min 41 sec and was set by Ashrita Furman (USA) in Baruun Salaa in Mongolia, on 19 May 2007. ...
breaking the all-time world record of 86 wins set by Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark. She also set another new world record for the most women's World Cup giant slalom wins with 21, and became the first female skier to finish with 138 World Cup podiums in FIS history. ...
his record of 13 min 58.2 sec remained unbroken until 1954. In 1943, on a tour of theUnited States, he was undefeated in eight races. In 1945 Hägg, known as “Gunder the Wonder,” ran the mile in 4 min 1.4 sec, a record that stood until 1954, whenRoger Bannisterbroke the 4-min...
Two-time Olympian and RunGum founder Nick Symmonds ran the fastest known time for a mile run while dribbling a basketball, 5:29, on August 23.
yet the mile remains the only non-metric race distance for which the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) recognizes a world record. Long after the other non-metric distances have vanished from the world record books, those 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards (about 1.61 kilometers...
In the women’s race, St. Pierre entered with two Wanamaker Mile championships on her mantle. She craved more, and on Sunday, St. Pierre edged Australian rivalJessica Hullby three seconds to win her third – in record time of 4:16.41, the fastest women’s mile in American history. ...
Then she became a middle-distance runner, running the 800 meters (half mile) race. Her best time in the 800 meters was 1 minute and 59 seconds. Last March, she ran her first marathon. Then last September, she entered the Berlin Marathon. She won, and set a new women’s record for ...
Objectives: The pacing strategies adopted by world-record breakers during the 1-mile footrace in order to evaluate different models for the biological basis of pacing was determined in this study. Methods: Lap times in 32 world record performances were analysed. Average times for each of the ...
The Edmunds U-Drag is a unique competition that tests the overall performance capabilities of vehicles. In this racing series, Edmunds pits two machines against each other in a U-shaped drag strip (hence its name), where they travel down the track for the first quarter mile, brake, make a...