Sentences with phrase «mile world record»

In 2013, during a training day of a Russian drag racing event, Unlim 500, a 1700 hp MK.1 GT - R tuned by Switzer (called Goliath R1K - X) made a new record of top speed and standing mile trap speed, reaching the finish line at 402.23 km / h (249.9 mp / h), breaking the previous record of 386 km / h made by an AMS / Turbo Drive 1550 hp Alpha 12 + GT - R, which still holds the standing mile world record of 22.086 s at 385.43 km / h.

Lonnie Spurrier, sensational San Francisco Olympic Clubrunner who unexpectedly cracked half - mile world record March 26, raced 1,000 yards in 2:08.5, broke U.S. outdoor mark of 2:09.3 (set in 1939) in special race at Berkeley, Calif..

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To reach the oil, it has had to drill horizontally up to 8 miles out below the seabed, setting one world record after another for the longest wells ever drilled.

Ethiopian distance star Dibaba owns five world records after breaking the 26 - year - old indoor - mile record by four seconds in February 2016 at the IAAF World Indoor world records after breaking the 26 - year - old indoor - mile record by four seconds in February 2016 at the IAAF World Indoor World Indoor Tour.

And on Monday, Tim will compete in the Boston Marathon — and he expects to finish in 2 hours 50 minutes, the same 26 - mile time he ran when he set the Ironman world record in 2017.

The electric SUV zoomed through a quarter mile in 11.4 seconds, setting a new world record for the fastest SUV over that distance.

We see this in sports, where Roger Bannister's comment about his world - record race (he was the first to run the mile in under four minutes) has often been repeated by other runners: «The world seemed to stand still, or did not exist... «17 And certainly this can be true of the play world of art, which, according to Gerardus Van der Leeuw, is a new «creation, a second world, with its own power.

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.

Oilman Travis Kerr's moneymaker fought off stretch bids by Manassas and Noureddin to set world record of 1:53 2/5 for 13/16 mile on turf, picked up $ 75,750 to boost alltime earnings to whopping $ 1,541,889.

Diane, a senior at Brooklyn Tech and a member of the Atoms mile - relay team that until recently held the women's indoor world record, won the 400 in 53.67, the fastest time ever run by a schoolgirl.

Two world records fell at the Maple Leaf Games in Toronto when WYOMIA TYUS of Tennessee State won the 50 - yard dash in 5.6, [1/10] of a second under the old mark, and a Cleveland teen - ager, MADELINE MANNING, took the half - mile in 2:10.2, bettering the old record by [3/10] of a second.

HARNESS RACING — SILK STOCKINGS ($ 3.00), driven by Preston Burris Jr., set a world record for fillies and mares with a 1:57 [3/5] clocking over the half - mile Monticello Raceway.

Australia's Kerry O'Brien has a history of being done in by bad luck, but last week he flouted some dire tidings in a Chinese restaurant to smash the world indoor two - mile record by eight seconds

John Landy, world mile record holder (3:58), gallantly stopped to aid fallen opponent but made up lost 30 yards in plenty of time to win Australian mile championship and Olympic berth with good 4:04.2 clocking at Melbourne.

Thompson's countryman, mile world - record holder Steve Cram, experienced his own bitter end, which was equally unexpected.

• 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.

CHRIS SHEA PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. Chris, 17, a senior at Port Washington High, set a high school girls» record for the one - mile walk with a 7:10.8, the second - fastest in the world for women.

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.

This mixture has been used for some of the finest tracks in the world: the one at Oxford on which Roger Bannister ran the first four - minute mile, the 1956 Olympic track at Melbourne, the Dublin track where Herb Elliott ran his world record mile in 1958, and even the track which the Sheik of Kuwait built for his university on the Persian Gulf (no records are likely to be set there, however, because of the tendency of the temperature to climb up to the neighborhood of 140 °).

As the pace setter in the last three indoor mile contests between Wes Santee and Gunnar Nielsen and Freddy Dwyer he has contributed directly to two world records, and has become as familiar to track addicts as the famous principals themselves.

Rodriguez had made his bid for inclusion in The Guinness Book of World Records by riding the Hurricane for 173 consecutive hours — good for a total of 2,624 miles, or the distance from Haines City to San Francisco.

He has run a quarter - mile relay lap (with a flying start) in 45.4 — six - tenths of a second under the world record.

For even though he is gray - haired and a bit paunchy now, with rimless spectacles and the dignified mien one might expect of a retired engineer from New York, Bowers was once a member of the University of Chicago's world - record two - mile - relay team that was coached by Amos Alonzo Stagg.

Both the men's and women's two - mile relay world records were broken in an international meet in Crystal Palace, England, by a KENYA men's team (Naftali Bon, Hezekiah Nyamau, Thomas Saisi, Robert Ouko) in 7:11.6, and a BRITISH women's team (Rosemary Stirling, Georgena Craig, Pat Lowe, Sheila Carey) in 8:25.0.

«I think the ego of someone who even conceives of setting the world record in the mile doesn't allow for a sober look at things,» says Masback.

At 25 he holds the indoor and outdoor world records in both the mile and its metric equivalent, the 1,500, which he ran in 3:26 flat in Rome in 1998.

Another movie portrays Roger Bannister's four - minute mile, Wilt Chamberlain at Overbrook High, some smooth moves by Pelé and a slow - motion high jump by world - record holder Dwight Stones.

Challenged as seldom before, New Zealand's Peter Snell persevered to take the mile from a determined field in Los Angeles as Australia's Ron Clarke, running alone most of the way, paced himself to two world records

Jurek, a legend in the ultra marathoning world, set the speed record on the Appalachian Trail back in the summer of 2015, hiking through the 2,189 miles from Georgia to Maine in 46 days, eight hours and seven minutes.

Paula Radcliffe's untouched world record is just one of many memorable moments over 26.2 miles in London.

In the mile, USA's 2007 world 1500m and 5000m champion Bernard Lagat will line up alongside 2011 world 1500m silver medallist Silas Kiplagat and Scotland's Andy Butchart, while the women's mile features a top GB line - up, led by British 1500m record - holder Laura Muir, Steph Twell, Eilish McColgan and the North - East's own Laura Weightman.

World marathon record - holder and Olympic champion among those to challenge debutant Mo Farah over 26.2 miles in April

In this award - winning film, Eamonn Coghlan, former world indoor record - holder for the mile, travels to Kenya to exploring the country's dominance over middle and long distance running

Genzebe Dibaba continued her record - breaking ways in Birmingham on Saturday as she set a world indoor best over two miles at the Sainsbury's Indoor Grand Prix.

Global warming has replaced the China Syndrome as the number one energy worry in the United States, and Cassini is delivering a whole world of new data on Saturn: rubble - pile moons, record - groove gaps in the planet's famous rings, complex weather systems churning through the pastel cloud cover, and possible explanations for the unrelenting 900 - mile - an - hour winds.

9 The world record for crossing the Sahara by bicycle was set in 2011 by Reza Pakravan, 36, a market security analyst in London, who made the 1,084 - mile journey in 13 days, 5 hours, 50 minutes, and 14 seconds.

«Experimental electric cars already have achieved sustained speeds of more than 180 miles per hour, and established world speed records above 300 mph,» Waters said.

The evidence is now clear that far below the sea, and far below the floor of the sea, in sediments all over the world, microbes live to astonishing depths — the record so far is half a mile — and in astonishing numbers.

The TGV also holds the world rail speed record, set in 1990, at 322 miles per hour.

Astronomers have measured and mapped a weather system on a planet outside our solar system for the first time ever, and discovered a world where raging winds blow at nearly 5,400 miles per hour — nearly 20 times greater than the fastest ever recorded on Earth.

Case in point: In 2014, top endurance SUPer Shane Perrin paddled 101 miles in 24 hours to set a new world - record.

The current marathon world record is 2:02, a pace of 4:42 per mile!

«Josh Garrett, a dedicated vegan and avid hiker, crushed the previous world record for hiking the grueling Pacific Crest Trail, a 2,655 - mile trek from Mexico to Canada.

A UK runner who once held all four middle distance world records, at the same time... the 800m, 1000m, 1500m and the mile.

It's the second - wealthiest state by per capita income, the 11th most populous, the most densely populated, second in solar power installations, has an annual record of $ 43.4 billion in tourism revenue, and has more scientists and engineers per square mile than any other place in the world.

(In Inuktitut with subtitles) Big River Man (Unrated) Endurance documentary highlights the exploits of Slovenian swimmer Martin Strel as he attempts to get into the Guinness Book of World Records by swimming the entire 3,375 - mile length of the Amazon River.

Beating Norway's world record tunnel by three miles, the scheme has been described by transport minister John Hayes as «the most ambitious project since the construction of the first motorways 50 years ago.»

The 205mph record is just the latest electric car record to be set in a matter of weeks, after TV presenter and occasional evo contributor Jonny Smith set a new world quarter - mile record for a street - legal electric car.

The previous world record had been set in Abu Dhabi last February at a distance of 47.71 miles.