Go Local Guru Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the Go Local Guru Content Network
  2. Marathon world record progression - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_world_record...

    For a performance to be ratified as a world record by World Athletics, the marathon course on which the performance occurred must be 42.195 km (26.219 mi) long, [34] measured in a defined manner using the calibrated bicycle method [35] (the distance in kilometers being the official distance; the distance in miles is an approximation) and meet other criteria that rule out artificially fast ...

  3. List of masters world records in road running - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_masters_world...

    This is a list of world records for Masters age groups in the sport of road running.The world governing body for masters athletics is World Masters Athletics (WMA). WMA conducts various world championships in what are called "non stadia" events, meaning races not held in the confines of a stadium.

  4. Paula Radcliffe - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Radcliffe

    Commonwealth Games. 2002 Manchester. 5000 m. Paula Jane Radcliffe MBE (born 17 December 1973) is a British former long-distance runner. She is a three-time winner of the London Marathon (2002, 2003, 2005), three-time New York Marathon champion (2004, 2007, 2008), the 2002 Chicago Marathon winner and the 2005 World Champion in the Marathon from ...

  5. List of winners of the Boston Marathon - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_of_the...

    Aurèle Vandendriessche won back-to-back marathons in 1963 and 1964. Ron Hill set a course record at the 1970 Boston Marathon. Bill Rodgers won the race four times between 1975 and 1980. Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot won the race four times, and set two course records. Geoffrey Mutai holds the current course record, 2:03:02, set in 2011.

  6. Galen Rupp - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Rupp

    Galen Rupp. Galen Rupp (born May 8, 1986) [ 1 ] is an American long-distance runner. He competed in the Summer Olympics in 2008 in Beijing, 2012 in London, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro and 2021 in Tokyo. He won the silver medal in the men's 10,000 meters in London and the bronze medal in the men's marathon in Rio de Janeiro.

  7. List of United States records in masters athletics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States...

    Contents. List of United States records in masters athletics. These are the current records in the various age groups of masters athletics for United States competitors. Starting at age 35, each age group starts on the athlete's birthday in years that are evenly divisible by 5 and extends until the next such occurrence.

  8. List of world records in athletics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in...

    The world best time for a "football 40" is 4.17 by Deion Sanders, while the extrapolated best for an Olympic-level athlete (including reacting to a starting gun) is 4.24 by Maurice Greeneat the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. [255][256]Under conventional football timing on a turf field in 2017, Christian Colemanreportedly ran a 4.12.

  9. Kenenisa Bekele - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenenisa_Bekele

    Kenenisa Bekele at the 2014 Paris Marathon 2014 - 2015. Kenenisa Bekele started his marathon career in the 2014 Paris Marathon on 6 April 2014. His marathon debut was very successful as he bettered both the Paris course record and the debut marathon times of past legends Haile Gebrselassie, Paul Tergat and Samuel Wanjiru by running 2:05:04 to ...