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The women's vault record has been advanced 9 times indoors by three different women, each ratified as a world record. The last record to be set indoors was in 2004. 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.
The "Wind" column in the table below indicates the wind assistance in metres per second. 2.0 m/s is the current maximum allowable, and a negative value indicates that the mark was set against a headwind. the "Auto" column indicates a fully automatic time that was also recorded in the event when hand-timed marks were used for official records, or which was the basis for the official mark ...
The world records of this women's event have been recognised by World Athletics (called the International Association of Athletics Federations until 2019) since 1974. Every world record is fully automatically timed and undergoes a ratification process that includes doping control. The first world record of 56.51 seconds was set by Krystyna ...
The last hand-timed world record of 12.3 seconds was set by Annelie Ehrhardt of East Germany in 1973. In 1977, the first recognised fully automatically timed world record became the time of 12.59 seconds set by Ehrhardt in 1972. The longest-standing world record of 12.21 seconds was set by Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria in 1988 and stood for ...
Website. guinnessworldrecords .com. Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
The world records in swimming are ratified by World Aquatics (formerly known as FINA), the international governing body of swimming. Records can be set in long course (50 metres) or short course (25 metres) swimming pools. World Aquatics recognizes world records in the following events for both men and women, except for the mixed relays, where ...
Commonwealth Games. 2002 Manchester. 5000 m. Paula Jane Radcliffe MBE (born 17 December 1973) is a former British long-distance runner. She is a three-time winner of the London Marathon (2002, 2003, 2005), three-time New York Marathon champion (2004, 2007, 2008), the 2002 Chicago Marathon winner and the 2005 World Champion in the Marathon from ...
Record Date Women Record Date 100 metres: Usain Bolt: 9.58 16 August 2009: Florence Griffith Joyner: 10.49 16 July 1988 200 metres: Usain Bolt: 19.19 20 August 2009: Florence Griffith Joyner: 21.34 29 September 1988 400 metres: Wayde van Niekerk : 43.03 14 August 2016: Marita Koch: 47.60 6 October 1985 800 metres: David Rudisha: 1:40.91 9 ...