Whats the world record time for the Marathon?
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Can't have such a record since terrains are different in all races...
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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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About 175km \n\nabout 2hours 29 minutes
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15 year old girl (freshmen)\n5:41, but i'm a sprinter that was forced to run it lol so i'm hoping to improve it next year when i switch to distance
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The answer to that would delve so deep into fitness, physisology, biology, and training that the answer can't be answered here.\n\nAlthough it looks like a small intereval at those paces it is actually a Huge GAP.  Look at it this way.  The Marathon's pace is over a minute slower than a Miler's.  \nThat is more than a 25% difference at World Record Pace.  That is the difference (in a sprint) between a 2006 Camaro and a 1969 VW bug.
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alexander popov(russia)...21.64\ninge de bruijn(netherlands)...24.13\nthese are long course meters times, but world records exist for every type of pool.
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Gold  Venuste Niyongabo, Burundi 13:07.96 min \nSilver  Paul Bitok, Kenya 13:08.16 min \nBronze  Khalid Boulami, Morocco 13:08.37 min
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whats considered marathon. 9 hours once
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world record : 8minutes 58 seconds by Tom Sietas.\n\ni heard some pearl divers holding their breath 13 minutes but it is a hearsay..
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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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Well, let's see. Since you've selected 1949 as your starting point, this would preclude the '48 London Olympic games.\n\n1952 - Josey Barthel of Luxemboug won in 3:45.1 \n\n1956 - Ron Delany of Ireland won in 3:41.2\n\n1960 - Herb Elliot of Australia won in 3:35.6\n\n1964 - Peter Snell of New Zealand won in 3:38.1\n\n1968 - Kip Keino of Kenya won in 3:34.9\n\n1972 - Pekka Vasala of Finland won in 3:36.3\n\n1976 - John Walker of New Zealand won in 3:39.17\n\n1980 - Sebastian Coe of Great Britain won in 3:38.40\n\n1984 - Sebastian Coe of Great Britain won in 3:32.52\n\n1988 - Peter Rono of Kenya  won in 3.35.96\n\n1992 - Fermin Cacho of Spain won in 3.40.12\n\n1996 - Noureddine Morceli of  Algeria won in 3.35.78\n\n2000 - Noah Ngeny of Kenya won in 3.32.07\n\n2004 - Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco won in 3.34.18\n\nSo, what we can say is:\n\nThe times improved from 3:45.1 to 3:32.07, well off the current world record of 3:26.0\n\nOne World record was set by Herb Elliot 3:35.6\n\nThe fastest winning time was 3:32.07 by Kenya's Ngeny.\n\nMost of the races were tactical in nature, thus most of the times were well off the the WR or the athletes's PRs. (Especially in 1976, 1980 & 1992)\n\nKenya has won 3 golds, Great Britian and Australia has 2 each. \n\nEurope has produced 6 winners, Africa has 5, and Australia/NZ has 3.
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The current WORLD RECORD - 235.5 metres
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As far as I have researched, no woman has run a mile under four minutes - yet. There is a source below with the closest, 4 minutes, 12.56 seconds.
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I believe you have to submit a qualifying time when you enter.  Atleast that is what you have to do in the Boston Marathon.
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Heck, if that's the case! Call Guiness Book of World Records. You might be a record holder or be the first. You never know.
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1 hour or 60 mins or 3600 seconds :-) is the time it takes but it will still be 12:30 :-p
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26.2 miles.  The distance from Marathon to Athens.