Sentences with phrase «meters world records»

The first one to hold the 100 meters and 200 meters world records.

That kind of power carried Johnson to a low - altitude 100 - meter world record of 9.95 in Moscow last summer (the official record is Calvin Smith's altitude - aided 9.93) and to world indoor marks for 50 and 60 meters this winter.

Once a sweet - tempered Ohio State quarter - miler who set the 400 - meter world record of 43.29 in 1988, Reynolds was transformed into a zealot by the IAAF announcement in 1990 that he had failed a drug test.

Like Usain Bolt smashing the 100 - meter world record, then doing it all over again, the Nissan GT - R has upped its game when the competition was already clinging onto its coat tails.

Readers who enjoy Teen fantasy, paranormal, science fiction, action and adventure, with a hint of romance will like The Unaltered Series, an Amazon Bestselling series.Sixteen - year - old Calli Courtnae surprisingly breaks the 100 - meter world record at her high school track meet and is whisked off to Montana to train for Olympic tryouts.

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Hosszu, five times a world champion but without a medal from three previous Olympics, demolished the world record by 2.07 seconds in the final of the women's 400 meters individual medley.

Greek runner Michail Seitis set a world record for his division with a time of 49.66 seconds in the men's 400 - meter final on Thursday.

She won an Olympic gold in the 800 - meter freestyle at 15, has won nine golds in two World Championships, and owns three current world recWorld Championships, and owns three current world recworld records.

Her world record in the 800 - meter freestyle is seven seconds faster than the next competitor, and she now owns the eight fastest times in the history of the event.

The swimming competition at yesterday's Olympic games was full of indelible visuals: Katie Ledecky crushing her own world record in the 400 - meter freestyle, 21 - year - old Ryan Held crying on the podium after his team's victory in the men's 4 × 100 - meter, and Michael Phelps» shoulders, which were dotted with large, wine - colored circles.

When women routinely win Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine, when a woman becomes a world chess champion, when a woman conceives and develops a brand new computer chip that represents a significant advancement over quad cores, when a woman invents warp drive or phasers, when a woman solves an «insolvable» math problem, when a woman, while working with the Large Hadron Collider, discovers the now - hypothetical Higgs Boson to be an actual scalar subatomic particle, when a woman figures out how to pinpoint the exact location of an electron at any point in time, when a woman working for Merck or Pfizer develops a remedy for Alzheimer's disease, when a woman's baseball team can defeat the New York Yankees, when a woman can bench press six hundred pounds, run the 100 meter dash in under nine seconds or set a world record in the high jump, then the fairer sex will have made an advance or contribution unlike any it has made before.

An athlete who breaks a world record in the 100 - meter dash has not only achieved a goal for himself in surpassing a limit, but has defined a new historical limit, available to and a challenge for others.

Becky Collins, Indianapolis, clipped two seconds off listed world 200 - meter butterfly record with 2:38.5 at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio meet.

MAURICE GREENE, Sprinter The Kansas City native and Kansas City Kansas Community College alum set the world record in the 100 meters (9.79 seconds) in 1999 and earned two gold medals at the 2000 Olympics, in the 100 and the 4x100 relay.

The record holder and the world champion were set to duel for the Olympic 100 meters title.

The Kansas alum held world records at 880 yards, a mile and 1,500 meters, and won Olympic silver in the 1,500 in» 68.

Guy Drut of France tied Rod Milburn's 110 - meter hurdles world record of 13.1 at an international meet in St. Maur, France.

Overseas, indoor world records were broken in separate meets as WENDELL MOTTLEY of Trinidad lowered the 440 - yard mark by [3/10] of a second with a 47.3 in a Cosford, England meet, and MICHEL JAZY of France clipped 1.2 seconds off the 1,500 - meter record of 3:41.9 (set in Berlin by East Germany's Jurgen May a week earlier) at a meet in Lyon, France.

Hot on the heels of Maurice Greene, the 2000 Olympic100 - meter champion, and Leonard Scott, the»06 world 60 - meter champ, zips46 - year - old Willie Gault, a former Tennessee hurdler and member of the 4 √ ó100relay team that set the world record at the»83 world championships.

Reggie Jones of Saginaw, Mich. joined a long list of world record holders for the 100 - meter dash (9.9) in a meet at Boston University.

Soni, the current world - record holder in the 200 - meter breaststroke, was born and raised in New Jersey by her Hungarian parents.

Only world - record holder Florence Griffith Joyner, five - time Olympian Merlene Ottey of Jamaica and Jones have run faster than 10.79 for 100 meters and 21.77 for 200.

In a race that jolted his sport, 21 - year - old Usain Bolt of Jamaica smashed the world record for 100 meters and established himself as a threat to win multiple gold medals at the Beijing Olympics

For the entire race, Ledecky swam at world record pace, coming up just short of Adlington's record in the final meters.

Inger interviewed several agents before settling on Hudson, the flamboyant lawyer who, with sprint coach and former U.S. Olympian John Smith, formed HSI, a management company that includes many athletes trained by Smith, among them 100 - meter world - record holder Maurice Greene and 1996 Olympic double bronze medalist Ato Boldon of Trinidad.

29 Andre Cason breaks the world indoor record in the 60 - meter dash, in Ghent, Belgium, with a time of 6.45 seconds.

Lydia Skoblikova is not quite 22, much younger than Grishin, and she was not even at Cortina four years ago; but at Squaw Valley she won two gold medals in speed skating, too, setting a world record in the 1,500 - meter race, winning the 3,000 and coming close to winning a third medal in the 1,000, where she finished fourth.

Grishin, who won the 500 - meter race, equaling his own world and Olympic record, and tied Norway's Roald Aas for the 1,500 - meter medal, is one of Russia's finest athletes.

There was shock, as when a green U.S. men's 4 x 100 - meter relay team, meaning to show off a little, tied a great world record with a 37.40 — in the semis.

Kenichi Ito of Japan, who says he spent nine years developing his technique, modeled on the gait of the African patas monkey, set a world record (17.47 seconds) for running 100 meters on all fours.

Tom Courtney, holder of 880 - yard world record and 800 - meter Olympic champion, accepted assistant track coach job at Harvard.

• Hungary «sslender Sandor Iharos provided latest flurry in prodigal year for track «sdistance men, stepped off 5,000 meters in 13 minutes 40.6 seconds at Budapest, 6.2 seconds faster than briefly held world mark of Russia's Vladimir Kuc, lowered Chris Chataway's three - mile record by nine seconds to 13:14.2 in samerace.

SWIMMING — JOSE FIOLO, Brazil's 17 - year - old Pan-American Games champion, broke the world 100 - meter breaststroke record in Rio de Janeiro with a 1:06.4 clocking,.3 second faster than the mark set by Vladimir Kosinsky at Leningrad last November.

SPEED SKATING — FRED ANTON MAIER of Norway won the 5,000 - and 10,000 - meter events at the world championships in G √ ∂ teborg, Sweden to gain the overall title with a world - record low of 176,340 points.

Indianapolis AC»S Frank McKinney, who tuned up with American record of 1:03.6 for 100 - meter backstroke, windmilled 200 meters in 2:17.9 for world mark.

Son of an ex-lifeguard and swimming since he was 9, this 17 - year - old high schooler from Santa Clara, Calif. set a world record in the 200 - meter butterfly (2:06.4) and already had a pending mark in the 100 - meter butterfly.

He competed in only two events at Winnipeg; he helped the 400 - yard freestyle relay team win, and then he lowered his world record in the 200 - meter freestyle to 1:56.0.

She set a world record in the 400 - meter freestyle (4:32.6) and was especially brutal in the 800, where she knocked 14 seconds off the world mark.

He outkicked Bernard Lagat to win the 1,500 here on Aug. 24 and on Saturday night sat patiently as the 10,000 - meter gold medalist — and 5,000 world - record holder — Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia set a sluggish pace in the 5K.»

TRACK & FIELD — In Sydney, KERRY SAXBY of Australia finished the 5,000 - meter walk in 21:16 to lower by 10.5 seconds the women's world record set in 1986 by Guan Ping of China.

# 9 Renaldo Nehemiah NEWARK Set high school records in 120 - yard and 110 - meter high hurdles; held world record in 110 - meter high hurdles from 1979 to» 89.

At 29 he came to Athens as the world - record holder in the mile and 1,500 meters, yet he had fallen short in the latter at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics.

Slaney's best indoor performance, a world record at 1,500 meters (4:00.8), came in» 80, and Coghlan's, a world record in the mile (3:49.78), in» 83.

TRACK & FIELD — Australian Olympian PAM KILBORN broke her own world record for the 200 - meter hurdles with a 26 - second clocking and was one - quarter of a 220 - yard relay team that set another world mark — 1:35 — at a meet in Brisbane.

He broke nine world records between 1974 and»75 and is only the second swimmer to have simultaneously held world marks in four freestyle events, from 200 to 1,500 meters.

In the same meet ZOLA BUDD ran the rarely contested women's 2,000 meters in 5:33.15 to break by 2.35 seconds the world record held by Maricica Puica since 1979.

SWIMMING — The two - year - old world record for the women's 400 - meter medley relay was broken by a U.S. team in Osaka, Japan.

He returns to the track on Friday in the opening round of the 200 (in which he is also the Olympic and world champion, and world - record holder) and will run on Sunday on Jamaica's 4 √ ó 100 - meter relay team.

Last September, in Berlin, El Guerrouj set a world record in the 2,000 meters — by an astounding three seconds — for which sponsors of the meet tastefully awarded him a kilo of gold.

Four weeks later, in Rieti, Italy, he would run 1,500 meters in 3:28.86, breaking the seven - year - old world record of Morocco's Sa «Äö √ † √ ∂ «àö √ ≤ d Aouita.