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The following are the national records in athletics in India. Some of the records are maintained by Athletics Federation of India (AFI). Outdoor times for track races between 200 meters to 10,000 meters are set on 400-meter unbanked tracks. Indoor marks are established on 200-meter tracks, whether banked or unbanked. Indoor tracks longer than ...
World U20 records in the sport of athletics are ratified by World Athletics. Athletics records comprise the best performance of an athlete before the year of their 20th birthday. Technically, in all under 20 age divisions, the age is calculated "on December 31 of the year of competition" [1] to avoid age group switching during a competitive season.
10,000 m walk (track) 39:47.20 Chen Ding China 11 July 2008 World Junior Championships: Bydgoszcz, Poland 15 years, 341 days 10 km walk (road) 38:57 Li Tianlei China 18 September 2010 IAAF Race Walking Challenge Final: Beijing, China 15 years, 248 days [33] 20,000 m walk (track) 1:23:37.21 Li Tianlei China 18 September 2012 Chinese University Games
Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed by six consecutive records set indoors, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2023 with a 6.22 m mark. In 2020 ...
Neeraj Chopra won India's first-ever Olympic gold medal in athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics (held in 2021) by throwing his best of 87.58 meters in the javelin throw final. Chopra is the first javelin thrower from India who won a gold medal, and only the second Indian sportsperson after Abhinav Bindra to win an Olympic gold medal. [11] [42]
Track events. 50 metres ; 60 metres ... IAAF Statistics Book 2009 – World record progressions (Men's from page 202–222, women's from page 292–309)
He ran from Puri to Bhubaneswar at the age of five covering 65 kilometres (40 miles) in seven hours and two minutes and was listed as the world's youngest marathon runner in the 2006 edition of the Limca Book of Records, an Indian records book. [1] [2] He was given a Rajiv Gandhi Award for excellence in 2006. [3]
USATF, the United States governing body, does not keep records for the youth division. This list is compiled from IAAF lists and corresponds to IAAF definitions of the age division. USATF keeps outdoor youth division records here, but the age divisions do not correspond with IAAF divisions and records mostly outdated. A youth could be in the ...