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Usain Boltbeating Tyson Gayand setting a 100 m world record at the 2009 World Championships in Athleticsin BerlinJürgen Schultbeside the indication of his new discus world record, 1986. World recordsin athleticsare ratified by World Athletics. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road runningand ...
Website. guinnessworldrecords .com. Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
Records 1912–1976. The first manual time of 9.9 seconds was recorded for Bob Hayes in the final of the 100 metres at the 1964 Olympics. Hayes' official time of 10.0 seconds was determined by rounding down the electronic time of 10.06 to the nearest tenth of a second, giving the appearance of a manual time.
200 metres. Usain Bolt. 19.19 (2009) Florence Griffith Joyner. 21.34 (1988) 400 metres. Wayde van Niekerk. 43.03 (2016) Marita Koch.
Masters athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of over 35 years of age. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running.These are the current world records in various five-year-groups, maintained by WMA, the World Association of Masters Athletes, which is designated by the World Athletics (formerly IAAF) to conduct the worldwide sport of Masters ...
A world record is usually the best global and most important performance that is ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill, sport, or other kind of activity. The book Guinness World Records and other world records organizations collates and publishes notable records of many.
List of world records in swimming. Caeleb Dressel holds the most world swimming records in men's swimming with six (four individual and two relays). Katie Ledecky holds the most individual world records in women's swimming with four. The world records in swimming are ratified by World Aquatics (formerly known as FINA), the international ...
Numerous world records and Olympic records were set in various events at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.Some events, such as rowing, occur under variable weather conditions that can unfairly benefit an athlete's performance through no fault of their own.