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At the professional level, many races offer significant prize money to athletes who achieve a high finishing position in the race. At the highest level, annual prize money can total over US$100,000 at races such as the World's Best 10K, Peachtree Road Race, Apryle Showers Run - Florida's Fastest 10K, and World 10K Bangalore.
On May 28, 2000, Roman Rasskazov of Russia set a new 10-km race walk world record in Saransk in a time of 37:11. [4] The all-time women's 10-km race-walk record is held by Yelena Nikolayeva of Russia, at 41:04.
Time Athlete Date Place Ref 37:21 Mary Slaney-Decker (USA) 18 April 1971: Lakewood, California: 37:09.4 Lone Dybdal (DEN) 31 March 1973: Haderslev: 35:42 Thelma Wright (CAN) 3 November 1974: Guayanilla, Puerto Rico: 35:36 Peg Neppel (USA) 12 September 1976: San Francisco: 34:51 Julie Shea (USA) 10 October 1976: Washington D.C. 33:49 Marijke ...
WB10K was ranked among the 20 most competitive races in the world. In 2003, Paula Radcliffe of England completed the course in a world record time of 30 minutes 21 seconds. The men's race at the 2010 edition, won by Rigoberto Gaetán, had six runners break the 28 minute mark. [1]
The race for 2009 took place on 8 February, with the courses for all events remaining the same as the previous year. About 55,000 people enrolled, among which 51,272 runners turned up (of which 31,000 were of the 10 km event, 7000 in full marathon), breaking previous records. The prize pool was US$100,000, with the winner getting US$20,000.
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.
In 1948, as part of its preparatory work for the SI, the CGPM adopted symbols for many units of measure that did not have universally agreed symbols, one of which was the symbol "h" for "hours". At the same time the CGPM formalised the rules for combining units – quotients could be written in one of three formats resulting in "km/h", "km h ...
Time Athlete Date Place 37:11 Roman Rasskazov (RUS) 28 May 2000: Saransk, Russia : 37:50 Andreas Erm (GER) 27 May 2000: Berlin, Germany : 38:26.4 Daniel García (MEX) 17 May 1997