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Anna Hall grew up in an athletic household in Highlands Ranch, Colorado near Denver. Her father David was a three-sport letterman at the University of Michigan: a quarterback on the football team, a basketball player, and a competitor in the decathlon. Her older sisters Kathryn and Julia played tennis and ran track at Michigan respectively.
Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking. Records are kept for all events contested at the Olympic Games and some others. Unofficial records for some other events are kept by track and field statisticians.
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 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) track and field system has been touted as one of the main reasons for the success of the United States on the global stage of athletics. [1] All of the collegiate records come from athletes competing in the NCAA, with the exception of the outdoor women's 1500 metres record (NAIA).
1.1 Track events. 1.2 Field events. 1.3 Road events. 2 European ... Athletics records progressions outline the lineage and improvement of the best ratified marks in a ...
An ancient Greece vase from 600 BC depicting a running contest An early model of hurdling at the Detroit Athletic Club in 1888 Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, one of the first modern track and field stadiums American athlete Jim Thorpe lost his Olympic medals after taking expense money prior to the 1912 Summer Olympics for playing baseball, a violation of Olympic amateurism rules.
Thomas Edward Tolan (September 29, 1908 – January 30, 1967), [3] [4] nicknamed the "Midnight Express", was an American track and field athlete who competed in sprints.He set world records in the 100-yard dash and 100 meters event and Olympic records in the 100 meters and 200 meters events.
He is one of six athletes to win gold in the same individual event in four consecutive Olympic Games, and is one of two people to win gold in the same individual athletics event in four Olympic Games, along with USA discus thrower Al Oerter. He is the head track and field coach for the University of Houston.