Natalya Lisovskayafrom the former Soviet Union holds the oldest world record in the women’s field events. She set three world records during her career and her 22.63 m from June 1987 still stands. What are the current world records in the combined events? Kevin Mayer...
Her final international race was set to be the 4x400m mixed relay final at the start of the meet, where the USA won bronze. But after answering a mid-meal call to compete in the women's 4x400m competition, having already travelled home, Felix hopped on a plane ...
Bol ran the final with a sense of ownership. The Dutch women had the two outside lanes and Bol erased the stagger on Klaver coming around the second curve. Pole position at the break was decisively hers and the remainder of the race was just a matter of how long Klaver could hang on....
Gender equity hadn’t yet come to track and field. 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 ...
Middle-distance runner Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia and long-distance runners Beatrice Chepkoech and Kibiwott Kandie of Kenya had their world records ratified by World Athletics, the world track-and-field organizing body, on Friday. Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia celebrates after breakin...
The night was historic for more than just McLaughlin-Levrone, as U.S. Trials records were set in all six track finals, plus one in the field courtesy ofMaggie Malone-Hardin, who topped the women's javelin final. See below for event recaps, highlights and more.U.S. Ol...
World records, which must be ratified by World Athletics and adhere to strict competition regulations, can become the defining achievement of an elite runner's career. Below is a list of the major track events and the fastest official times ever recorded in each by men and women in outdoo...
World Records are those officially ratified by the IAAF. We have also listed the statistically best-acceptable marks in other non-ratified events that are “frequently” contested (+). If the ratified WR is altitude-aided—i.e., made at an altitude over 1000 meters in an event where the ...
The Jamaican trio formed by Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce, Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shericka Jackson is set to dominate the women’s 100 metres. Fraser Pryce set the three fastest times of the season, clocking 10.67 in Nairobi and in the Paris Diamond League and 10.70 in the heats of the ...
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