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On 30 March 1991, Arturo Barrios ran a world record distance of 21.101 km in one hour, becoming the first man to run the half marathon distance in under one hour. [11] On 3 April 1993, Moses Tanui became the first man to run a half marathon race in under one hour, with a time of 59:47. [12]
Scott is also regarded as the founder of speed golf in 1979; on December 2, 1982, Scott set a record for the fastest round of golf played on a regulation course, completing 18 holes in 29 minutes, 33.05 seconds at Miller Golf Course in Anaheim, California. Using only two clubs and running from hole to hole, he posted a respectable score of 95.
She was previously the fastest female marathoner of all time, and held the Women's World Marathon Record with a time of 2:15:25 for 16 years from 2003 to 2019 when it was broken by Brigid Kosgei. [2] Radcliffe is a former world champion in the marathon, half marathon and cross country.
At the time Homorody applied to Guinness, the record-holding time was 1:30:42. "My best (half marathon) time was 1:19, so I knew I could run that easily unless there was some crazy circumstance ...
This included a British all-comers' record in the 10K in Manchester (27:25), a win at the Amsterdam Marathon in the fastest marathon time in the world for 2006 (2:06:20), and a new world best for 10 miles in Tilburg Ten Miles race, The Netherlands (44:24). (His unofficial split of 41:22 at the 15K mark was 7 seconds faster than the official ...
Hicks was attempting to break the Guiness record for half marathon time ran in handcufs. He completed the race with a chip time of 01:20:36 and a gun time of 01:29:47. More than 10,000 runners ...
In 1977, when an airline strike forced him to miss a scheduled event, he signed up at the last minute for the Dartford half-marathon and won it with ease, wearing borrowed shoes, in a time of 1:05:38, [10] running a course more than twice as long as anything he had attempted in public before, against the British marathon champion. [11]
Kiptum, whose record was officially confirmed last week by World Athletics, ran the first sub-two-hour, one-minute marathon in an official race at the 2023 Chicago Marathon. He came just 35 ...