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Fastest run 200 metres (male)

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.

Fastest run 800 metres (female)

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 Continue reading →

Fastest speed for an airship

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.

Fastest swim relay 100 x 400 metres by a team (mixed)

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.