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50 metres, or 50-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field. It is a relatively uncommon non-championship event for indoor track and field, normally dominated by the best outdoor 100 metres runners. At outdoor athletics competitions it is used in the Special Olympics and a rare distance, at least for senior athletes.
At the 2017 National Senior Games, she won the women's 100+ 100-meter sprint, with a record time of 36.62 seconds, and finished the 50-meter sprint in 18.31 seconds. [9] In July 2017, she competed in the 100-meter sprint in the 100–104 age category of the USA Track and Field Outdoors Masters Championships, finishing with a time of 39.62. [5] [4]
The first world record in the men's 50 metres freestyle in long course (50 metres) swimming was recognized by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in 1976.In short course (25 metres) swimming events the world's governing body recognizes world records since March 3, 1991.
Masters athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of over 35 years of age. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running.These are the current world records in various five-year-groups, maintained by WMA, the World Association of Masters Athletes, which is designated by the World Athletics (formerly IAAF) to conduct the worldwide sport of Masters ...
The modern sprinting events have their roots in races of imperial measurements which were later altered to metric: the 100 m evolved from the 100-yard dash, [7] the 200 m distance came from the furlong (or 1 ⁄ 8 mile), [8] and the 400 m was the successor to the 440-yard dash or quarter-mile race.
Indoor tracks longer than 200 meters are considered "oversized" and times are not accepted for record purposes. Indoor sprint races (50 to 60 meters) are held on level straight-aways. American athletes are successful on an international stage with many American records being at the same time world records.
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 ...
29.52 m (96 ft 10 in) Ian Reed 1927-Jul-10 90 San Mateo, California 2017-Nov-12 Encore Senior Games 28.49 m (93 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) Ian Reed 1927-Jul-10 90 San Diego, California 2017-Sep-17 95-99 18.92 m(62'0½") Donald Pellmann: 1915-Aug-15 95 Palo Alto, California 2011-Mar-27 Bay Area Senior Games 100-104 14.86 m (48 ft 9 in) Donald Pellmann