Sentences with phrase «miles record»

Laura Muir broke the British 1500m record in this meeting last year and this time she turns her attention to Zola Budd's 32 - year - old UK mile record of 4:17.57.

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 Tour.

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.

GB Rowing's Sir David Tanner has announced 43 of their 47 strong squad that will head to Rio and Laura Muir sets a new Scottish mile record at the Diamond League meeting in Oslo.

Britain's big new race walking star, Tom Bosworth, smashed the world mile record at the Müller Anniversary Games in London on Sunday.

It puts Muir to No. 8 on the UK all - time rankings and will be a great boost ahead of the Muller Anniversary Games on Sunday, where she will attack Zola Budd's long - standing UK mile record.

At the winter peak in early March, it has come down to an ice area of 5.57 million square miles, less than the 35,000 square miles recorded in 2015.

TRACK AND FIELD — At the Knights of Columbus in Cleveland, the final indoor meet of the season, Mrs. Grace Butcher of Chardon, Ohio, 27 - year - old housewife and mother of two, set an American half - mile record with a time of 2:21.6, clipped.5 second off Helen Shipley's record set the week before at the AAU meet in Columbus, Ohio.

Sir Roger Bannister has Parkinson's disease 60 years after 4 minute mile record Daily Mirror, 02/05/2014, Louie Smith

He set a new indoor mile record in January, true enough, but he let Denmark's redheaded Gunnar Nielsen beat him and break it the very next week.

But to more than balance the pole vault, there was Jim Beatty, the tiny distance runner from the Santa Clara Youth Village, who won the mile in 3:58.8, although he was handicapped in his bid to regain his American mile record when his teammate and pace setter, Laszlo Tabori, was forced out after the second lap by a week - old hip injury.

Also known as «fit for purpose»... for the car lovers out there... drop a small block V8 into a 1970's VW Beetle and see if you get the quarter - mile record Even the great Shelby couldn't get that to work.

This is literally true for El Guerrouj, in whose dorm room hangs a framed piece of parchment signed by all 16 living mile record setters, from Sydney Wooderson to Morceli, each of whom appended his record time.

He set the collegiate mile record before enlisting in the Air Force and becoming a bombardier in 1941, and in 1942, was one of three survivors of a B - 24 crash.

The record was set by BMW driving instructor Johan Schwartz in 8 hours, and more than doubles the previous 102 mile record set with a Toyota GT86 last year.

All scheduled maintenance always garaged highway miles records available new tires well maintained very clean interior

Arctic sea ice averaged 2.35 million square miles in August 2013, as compared to the low point of 1.32 million square miles recorded on Sept. 16, 2012, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Talk before the race had been on how the double world, Olympic and European champion would surely have Steve Ovett's almost 36 - year - old British two - mile record of 8:13.51 in his sights but not only did Farah better that mark, but a four - minute flat second mile helped him on his way to break the European best too.

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

Tesla drag racing fanatic behind the Tesla Racing Channel on YouTube has set a new 1/4 mile record in their stripped - down Model...

Aside from setting a production car record up Pikes Peak in a Corvette, taking a standing - mile record at Daytona and starting the Grand Sport racing program, Zora consistently worked on mid-engined prototypes of Corvettes during his career.

Surrey schoolboy Tom Holden ran 4:15.79 to break his countyâ $ ™ s under - 17 mile record, which had stood for 49 years and 314 days, and Keith Gerrard bettered the Isle of Mann mile record by two seconds, running 4:08.23.

• 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.

So the millionaire athlete, at home in his humble dorm room, tries to describe why the mile record means so much to him and why he so desperately wants to win in Sydney.

For the mile record holder, it seems, the handwriting is always on the wall.

Sixteen days after El Guerrouj seized the mile record, King Hassan II died.

«One hundred years from now,» says Ray Flynn of Ireland, a former 3:49 miler and now an agent representing runners, «the mile record will be two or three seconds lower than it is today.

Tough guy, and experts that predict that in 100 years, the mile record may only drop a couple seconds at most.

The 1926 Indy 500 trophy, the Muroc dry lake measured - mile record of 171 mph, and eight of twenty - two board - track races he entered were in his pocket when he died on Daytona «s sands in 1928, already a legend at the age of 25.

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.

Its 1088 miles recorded in the past four weeks is well off the pace for our mileage - hungry six - month veteran.

It is only a few years old at the most and has only a limited number of miles recorded.

Racer A.J. Foyt's recent 257.123 - mph world - record, closed - course run and his 267.399 - mph flying - mile record in a streamlined car equipped with a modified Quad 4 engine can't hurt either.

However, it seems that barely any time passes before an insanely modified Nissan GT - R sets a new quarter - mile record to keep the R35 sports car in the spotlight before it's soon replaced by its successor.

Our used inventory also includes some Certified Pre-Owned vehicles that are only a few years old at the most and are still under the original warranty, have only a limited number of miles recorded, and they have passed a rigorous certification inspection.