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The world best time for a "football 40" is 4.17 by Deion Sanders, while the extrapolated best for an Olympic-level athlete (including reacting to a starting gun) is 4.24 by Maurice Greene at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. [246] [247] Under conventional football timing on a turf field in 2017, Christian Coleman reportedly ran a 4.12 ...
This category is for people who compete in track and field. For other types of competitors within the sport of athletics , see Category:Competitors in athletics . Subcategories
This is a category of Olympic competitors in the sport of athletics (including track and field, cross country running, racewalking and marathon athletes). All other Olympic competitors should be categorized into an appropriate subcategory of the Category:Olympic competitors by sport.
Key No longer contested at the Summer Olympics Men's records Usain Bolt currently holds three Olympic records; two individually in the 100m & 200m, and one with the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team. Ethiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele holds the Olympic record in the 5,000 m. ♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of August 5, 2024 ...
Ottey ranks at number seven on the all-time list of the 200 metres, and number ten on the 100 metres list. In 1990, Ottey was awarded the World Athlete of the Year and the Track & Field News Athlete of the Year awards. Ottey is the first female athlete to run 60 metres under seven seconds (6.96 in 1992).
Gay is a two-time winner of the Jesse Owens Award, was the 2007 IAAF World Athlete of the Year, won Best Track and Field Athlete for Track & Field News in 2007 and for ESPY Award in 2008 and 2011. He has also achieved multiple Men's season's best performances in the 100 m and 200 m.
Juantorena made it to the 800m Olympic final, and led the field for most of the race, eventually winning in a world record time of 1:43.50. [9] He was the first non-English speaking athlete to win Olympic gold in this event. Three days later, he also won the 400 meter final, setting a low-altitude world record at 44.26. [10]
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