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The imperial analogue of the 200 m straight is the 220 yards straight – held over 220 yards (201.17 m) – which has been contested at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships 38 times from 1887 to 1926.
Panhandle track (or pot handle track) is a slang expression for a running track built with a 220-yard straightaway.The name came from the resemblance of the shape of a pan (the track oval) with a long handle.
From the Middle Ages on, the word stadium has been used as a synonym for the furlong (which is 220 yards, equal to one eighth of a mile), which is of Old English origin.
220 yards 20.5 Dwayne Evans: South Mountain High School: Phoenix, Arizona: 1976 220 yards straightaway 20.2 (+1.7 m/s) Forrest Beaty: Hoover High School: Glendale, California: Ontario, California: CIF Southern Section Prelims May 27, 1961 [10] 400 m: 44.20 Quincy Wilson: Bullis School: Potomac, Maryland: Gainesville, Florida: Holloway Pro ...
Forrest Orren Beaty (born September 5, 1944) is a retired American track and field athlete memorable for setting the National High School record in the straight 220 yard dash, a race slightly longer than the 200 metres straight. It is the longest standing record on the books, although mostly because that distance is not run anymore.
For the second consecutive year, Ohio State's Jesse Owens won championships in four individual events—the 100-meter sprint, the 200-meter sprint, the 220-yard low hurdles and the broad jump (now called the long jump). Owens accounted for more than half of Ohio State's points (40 of 73) in the team scoring.
Track and Field News reported that "after 220 yards of dawdling, a record seemed out of the question." However, after 440 yards, which Ryun, in third, passed in 60.9 seconds, Kip Keino took the lead and ran the next lap in 56 seconds (the fastest second lap ever run at the time). Ryun, just behind, passed the 880-yard mark in 1:57.0.
The only thing that changed was the number of feet and yards in a rod or a furlong, and the number of square feet and square yards in an acre. The definition of the rod went from 15 old feet to 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 new feet, or from 5 old yards to 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 new yards. The furlong went from 600 old feet to 660 new feet, or from 200 old yards to 220 ...