30 km 1:38:49 Mizuki Noguchi (Japan) Berlin, Germany 25 September 2005 Also listed under Record ID 59500.
1:11:50 Samuel Kiplimo Kosgei (Kenya) Berlin, Germany 9 May 2010
1,500 m 3:31.18 Hicham El Guerrouj (Morocco) Stuttgart, Germany 2 February 1997
3,000 m 8:23.72 Meseret Defar (Ethiopia) Stuttgart, Germany 3 February 2007
19.19 Usain Bolt (Jamaica) Berlin, Germany 20 August 2009 Bolt won the 200 metres at the IAAF World Championships with this run and became the first man ever to hold Olympic Gold and World Championship Gold at the two sprint distances of 100 and 200 metres.
800 m 1:53.28 Jarmila Kratochv (Czechoslovakia) Munich, Germany 26 July 1983 Both speed and speed-endurance are required to run the 800 m. The race is linked to the half-mile (880 yards or 804.67 m) first run in Britain by professionals around 1830. For many years, it was usual to run very fast opening laps. However, in 1932 Tom Hampson (GBR) became the first man to break 1:50 with 1:49.7 by running even paced laps (54.8 + 54.9). Germany’s Rudolf Harbig broke this record in 1939
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Thomas Dold (Germany) ran 1,000 metres backwards in a time of 3 min 36.07 sec at Messkirch, Germany on 13 July 2003.
The highest speed officially measured for an airship, according to the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI), is 112 km/h (69.6 mph), by Steve Fossett (USA) flying a Zeppelin Luftshifftechnik LZ N07-100 airship on 27 October 2004 over Friedrichshafen, Germany. The large rigid airships built by the USA and Germany in the 1920s and 30s could reach higher speeds (up to 140 km/h or 87 mph according to some sources), but these were never officially measured to FAI standards.
The fastest speed on a gravity powered snow sled is 100.18 kmh (62.25 mph) and was achieved by Rolf Allerdissen (Germany) on the Brunnenkogel at the Pitztal Glacier (Austria) on 10 April 2010. The speed was measured on a 200 metre (656.17 ft) long course with a 38 degree incline.
The fastest swim relay 100 x 400 m by a mixed team was 9 hr 2 min 32 sec by members of SSV Ulm 1846 (Germany) in their club pool in Ulm, Germany, on 10 July 2010. Participants ranged in age from 11 to 57 years old and the average time to complete 400 m was 5 min 25 sec. By comparison, the world record in the 400 m freestyle long course is 3 min 40.07 sec.