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  2. Orders of magnitude (speed) - Wikipedia

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    0.18: 2.6 × 10 −10: The top ... Average speed of Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt while setting the 100m world record in Berlin on 16 ... 320 km/h or 200 mph is a ...

  3. List of conversion factors - Wikipedia

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    ≡ Distance from fingers to elbow ≈ 18 in ≈ 0.5 m ell (H) ell ... ≡ 100 m 2: ≡ 100 m 2: barn: b ... = 2.54 × 10 −2 m/s: kilometre per hour: km/h ≡ 1 km ...

  4. Kilometres per hour - Wikipedia

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    SI, and hence the use of "km/h" (or "km h −1 " or "km·h −1 ") has now been adopted around the world in many areas related to health and safety [36] and in metrology [37] in addition to the SI unit metres per second ("m/s", "m s −1 " or "m·s −1 "). SI is also the preferred system of measure in academia and in education.

  5. Elaine Thompson-Herah - Wikipedia

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    At the 2021 Prefontaine Classic, Thompson-Herah set another 100 m personal best, Jamaican and Diamond League record of 10.54 s, becoming the first woman to break the 40 km/h barrier, then ran times of 10.64 s and 10.65 s.

  6. List of world records in athletics - Wikipedia

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    In running events up to 200 m in distance and in horizontal jump events, wind assistance is permitted only up to 2.0 m/s. In decathlon or heptathlon, average wind assistance of less than 2.0 m/s is required across all applicable disciplines; and maximum of 4.0 m/s in any one event. As an exception, according to rule 36.2, specific event ...

  7. Men's 100 metres world record progression - Wikipedia

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    One estimate suggests times in the 200 m sprint can be assisted by between 0.09s and 0.14s with the maximum allowable tailing wind of 2.0 m/s, and gain 0.3s at altitudes over 2000m. [14] For this reason, unofficial low-altitude record lists have been compiled.

  8. Metre per second - Wikipedia

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    ft/s 3.2808 The metre per second is the unit of both speed (a scalar quantity ) and velocity (a vector quantity , which has direction and magnitude) in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the speed of a body covering a distance of one metre in a time of one second .

  9. List of world records in speed skating - Wikipedia

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    43.73 km/h (27.17 mph) [ 13 ] * Seven skaters have a recorded a 3000m time below this world record on this irregularly competed distance, including Denis Yuskov , who recorded a 3000m time of 3:34.37 during a training race held on 2 November 2013.