Even the IAAF didn’t recognize a women’s mile world record. The failure to recognize Leather’s accomplishment wasn’t a matter of the IAAF alone being shortsighted, but an overall lack of recognition for women’s distance running in particular, and to a large degree, women’s athletics...
10 Fastest Marathons on Record-Eligible Course: Women Runner Finish Time Pace/Mile Marathon Ruth Chepngetich (Kenya) 2:09:56 4:57.4 Chicago, 2024 Tigist Assefa (Ethiopia) 2:11:53 5:01.8 Berlin, 2023 Sifan Hassan (Netherlands) 2:13:44 5:06.0 Chicago, 2023 Br...
Additionally, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, the American triple Olympic gold medalist, edged world champion Marlies Gohr of East Germany in the women’s 100 meters with a personal best of 11.01 seconds. She also won the 200 in 21.98, beating world record-holder Marita Koch of East Germany. Advertiseme...
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s Lucia Stafford to take a close win in the women’s mile in 4:23.42. Maclean went through at 1500 meters split in a world-leading time of 4:06.07. Stafford finished second, improving her PB to 4:23.52. Esther Guerrero improved the Spanish record to a leading European time of...
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Other events at the adizero Road to Records included a men's road 800m, won by Canada's Marco Arop in 1:44:30, and a women's mile, where Kenya's Nelly Chepchirchir claimed victory with a time of 4:30.93. Kenya's Agnes Ngetich almost set the women's-only world 10...
Alpine skiing legend Shiffrin concluded her FIS World Cup 2022-23 season with 88 titles in total, 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 ...