Who ran the fastest marathon?
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Here are the top 10\n1 2:04:55 Tergat, Paul KEN Berlin 1 9/28/03 \n2 2:04:56 Korir, Sammy KEN Berlin 2 9/28/03 \n3 2:05:38 Khannouchi, Khalid USA London 1 4/14/02 \n4 2:05:42 Khannouchi, Khalid MAR Chicago 1 10/24/99 \n5 2:05:48 Tergat, Paul KEN London 2 4/14/02 \n6 2:05:50 Rutto, Evans KEN Chicago 1 10/12/03 \n7 2:05:56 Khannouchi, Khalid USA Chicago 1 10/13/02 \n8 2:06:05 da Costa, Ronaldo BRA Berlin 1 9/20/98 \n9 2:06:14 Limo, Felix KEN Rotterdam 1 4/4/04 \n10 2:06:15 Munji, Titus KEN Berlin 3 9/28/03
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I think you are referring to the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and an English runner called Derek Redmond. He popped a hamstring in the 400 metre semifinal and his father jumped out of the stand to help him cross the finish line.\n\nRead the full story here:\nhttp://sports.espn.go.com/espn/espn25/story?page=moments/94\n\nI trust this is what you are looking for.
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Fastest person F/E Richard Davey (UK) 1988 08.05 \nFastest woman Penny Lee Dean (USA) E/F 1978 07.40 \nFastest woman F/E Alison streeter MBE (UK) 1989 08.48 \nOldest man George Burnstad (USA) 2004 15.59 (70 yrs 4 days) \nOldest woman Carol Sing (USA) 1999 12.32 (57 yrs) \nYoungest person Thomas Gregory (UK) 1988 11.54 (11yrs 11 months) \nYoungest girl Samantha Druce (UK) 1983 15.28 (12 yrs 118 days) \nLongest time (solo) Henry Sullivan (USA) E/F 1923 26.50 \nLongest time (2-way) Antonio Abertondo (Arg) 1961 43.10 \nFastest 2-way Plil Rush (NZ) E/F/E 1987 16.10 \nFastest 2-way woman Susie Maroney (Australia) 1991 17.14 \nFastest 2-way F/E/F Phil Rush (NZ) 1987 20.26 \nFastest 3-way Phil Rush (NZ) 1987 28.21 \n1st man 3-way  Jon Erikson (USA)   1981 38.26 \n1st woman 3-way Alison Streeter E/F/E/F 1990 34.40 \nRelay records       \nFastest relay US National Swim Team 1990 06.52 \nFastest relay 2-way US National Swim Team 1990 14.18 \n1 st relay 4-way E/F/E/F/E Sun Rice Australia 1993 43.07 \nFastest relay 2-way F/E/F Sun Rice Australia 1993 20.40 \nFastest relay 3-way Sun Rice Australia 1993 31.23 \nFastest relay 3-way F/E/F/E Sun Rice Australia 1993 32.24 \nFastest junior relay Lada Ireland Junior Team 1978 08.40 \nFastset junior relay F/E BLDSA Junior members 1984 08.46
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It depends on your frame of reference.  Relative to the Earth, the fastest speed man is capable of is probably 10km/s, that's 1/30000 the speed of light.
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Apolo Anton Ohno (short-track speedskater)!!!! BUT, Lenny Krayzelburg (swimmer) comes in at a close second.
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4:22 second, Josh Auerbeck, Dolmoore Michigan
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There is no official world record for 40 yards.\n\nThe shortest distance that the IAAF, track and field's international governing body, recognizes for world-record purposes is an indoor 50 meters, or about 54 yards. It is 5.56 seconds and it was set by Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey in 1996. There is also a world record for 60 meters -- 6.39 seconds by American Maurice Greene in 1998.\n\nBut it is another Canadian, Ben Johnson, who is believed to have run 40 yards faster than any human in history. Johnson is best known for injecting copious amounts of steroids and winning the 100 meters at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul in 9.79 seconds, only to have his gold medal and world record stripped after failing a post-race drug test.\n\nTiming officials have since broken down that famed race into 10-meter increments, and Johnson was so preposterously fast that he went through 50 meters in 5.52 seconds and 60 meters in 6.37 -- both under the current world records at those distances. He went through 40 yards that day in 4.38 seconds.\n\nHe was running in spikes . . . on a warm afternoon perfectly suited for sprinting . . . with a slight tailwind . . . with years of training from arguably track's top coach, Charlie Francis . . . with Carl Lewis and six others of the fastest men on the planet chasing him . . . with 69,000 people roaring at Seoul's Olympic Stadium . . . with hundreds of millions of people watching on TV . . . with the ultimate prize in sports, an Olympic gold medal, at stake.\n\nAnd, as we learned later, with muscles built with the assistance of the anabolic steroid stanazolol.\n\nFour-point-three-eight seconds.\n\nThen again, maybe Ben Johnson isn't the fastest 40-yard man in the world.\n\nMaybe half the NFL is faster.\n\no o o\n\nIt can be the most important few hours of a football player's career. It is the day NFL scouts come to campus to determine whether prospects have what it takes to play at the next level.\n\nPlayers are measured to the quarter-inch. They're weighed to the half-pound. They do a vertical jump and a standing broad jump. They see how many times they can bench-press 225 pounds. They do a 20-yard shuttle drill and something called a three-cone drill. They are put through a short workout specific to their position.\n\nBut it is something else that commands everyone's attention, something else that interrupts the businesslike atmosphere of players shuffling from one station to the next. Something else that causes scouts and spectators to snap to attention.\n\nThe 40-yard dash.\n\nIt is the day's shortest event, and the most critical. No other statistic carries more influence for an NFL prospect, no single number has more impact on his draft fortunes. It's not called Pro Scouting Day or Pro Prospect Day or Pro Workout Day. The sign taped to the weight-room door at San Diego State on March 19 says: "Pro Timing Day."\n\nOr as local football agent David Caravantes puts it: "There's football speed and there's 40 speed, and the scouts will all tell you they understand that and game film is the most important thing. But how many defensive backs who ran a 4.6 are left on the draft board ahead of guys who ran 4.3?\n\n"I'll give you another example. There's this DB who was originally projected as a first-rounder. But he didn't run the 40 that fast -- something like 4.6 instead of in the 4.4s -- and now they're talking about him slipping to the second round. Well, he's looking at a minimum $4 million signing bonus if he goes in the first round and only about $1.6 million if he goes in the middle of the second round.\n\n"You do the math."\n\nThe players are inside the SDSU weight room being measured and weighed. In the hallway outside are their agents, pacing. Nervously. Occasionally they'll walk outside, look up at the sky and stick out an upturned hand to feel the raindrops.\n\nThis is not good. The plan, according to t
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Some Greek guy who was faster than all the other Greek guys in the race...
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I think it was Eric Winston, University of Miami OT.  He ran a 4.96 forty.
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first and youngest player to reach 2000 points the fastest.
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In the FIFA World Cup Hakan Sukur of Turkey scored the fastest goal in World Cup history in 2002 when he scored 11 seconds into the match against South Korea.
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Linford Christie in the 100 metre run.  He won gold at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, an Olympic Gold in 1992, and the World Championship a year later.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linford_Christie
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He is an Ethiopian distance runner. Some say he is the greatest distance runner of all times.\n\nHe was gold medalist 10K at Atlanta and Sydney\n\nHe currently holds these world records:\n2 miles 8:01.08\n1/2 Marathon 58:55 \n20K 55:48\n25K 1:11:37\n\nHe set these world records which have since been surpassed:\n10K 26:31.32\n5K 12:41.86\n1500 3:32.39
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First of all a marathon s 26.22 miles.  I would have to assume in the shape he was in and the diciplne he had.  He should be able to do it.\n\nSince\n1924 42.195 km 26.22 ml
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Based on video evidence, one of the fastest ever scored was in 2.8 seconds by Ricardo Olivera (Uruguay) in December 1998\nSource-Sam
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Around 15 kmph I guess\n\nAdded info: "The average speed for the marathon world record is 12.1 mph..." and that is 19.47kmph and from answer below average for all men is around 9.3kmph, the mean would be 14.4kmph.
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Well like Athletics, there are different people for different distance, so we will presume you mean fastest sprinters. Some swimmers can maintain a high speed over a longer distance, while, obviously the sprinters get the total highest speed.\nAlexander Popov (russia) 50m mens record \nInge Debruin (Netherlands) 50m womens record