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To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following list describes various speed levels between approximately 2.2 × 10 −18 m/s and 3.0 × 10 8 m/s (the speed of light). Values in bold are exact.
0–0.2 m/s: 0 ft 0 m Sea like a mirror Smoke rises vertically 1 Light air 1–3 knots 1–3 mph 1–5 km/h 0.3–1.5 m/s 0–1 ft 0–0.3 m Ripples with appearance of scales are formed, without foam crests Direction shown by smoke drift but not by wind vanes 2 Light breeze 4–6 knots 4–7 mph 6–11 km/h 1.6–3.3 m/s 1–2 ft 0.3–0.6 m
Event Time Name Nation Games Date Ref 500 metres 34.32 Gao Tingyu China 2022 Beijing: 12 February 2022 [1]500 metres × 2 [A]: 69.23 Casey FitzRandolph United States 2002 Salt Lake City
Roddie Haley ran 59.82 i in Oklahoma City on 15 March 1986, but this time was rejected as a record due to an incorrectly measured track. Haley also ran a 59.90 i in Oklahoma City on 14 March 1987, but this time was rejected as a record for the same reason.
The world record of 38.9 seconds was set by Hasse Börjes on 18 January 1970 had been manually timed and thus with a precision of only one tenth of a second. In those days, it was not yet required that a performance be automatically timed (with a precision of one hundredth of a second) in order for it to be recognised as a world record.
13.38 (−0.7 m/s) Anuradha Biswal: 26 August 2002 DDA-Raja Bhalendra Singh National Circuit meet New Delhi, India 13.38 (+0.4 m/s) 8 September 2002 13.23 (−0.1 m/s) Jyothi Yarraji: 10 May 2022 Cyprus International Athletics Meeting Limassol, Cyprus [87] 13.11 (+0.3 m/s) Jyothi Yarraji: 22 May 2022 Loughborough International Athletics
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Haralds Silovs of Latvia became the first athlete in Olympic history to participate in both short track (1500m) and long track (5000m) speed skating, and the first to compete in two different disciplines on the same day. He competed in the 5000m and then raced across town to the 1500m event.