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300 Meters Hurdles
The 300 metres hurdles (also spelled 300 meters hurdles in American English) is an athletics or track and field event. It is a cut-down version of the International event the 400 metres hurdles. It is a standard event under the NFHS in American high school competition and a championship level event in Masters athletics. The two iterations of the event vary somewhat. Common to all long hurdling events, the distance between hurdles is 35 metres. High school The high school version uses a standard 45 meter start to the first hurdle. Thus the high school race is equivalent to beginning of a standard 400 meter hurdle race, but its placement on the track is shifted 100 meters around the track so it finishes at the common finish line on the straightaway, where the longer race would reach the same point near the end of the second turn. There are 8 hurdles in the high school version, the last hurdle just 10 meters before the finish line. High schools began adopting the longer hurdle even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics (sport)
Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and racewalking. The results of racing events are decided by finishing position (or time, where measured), while the jumps and throws are won by the athlete that achieves the highest or furthest measurement from a series of attempts. The simplicity of the competitions, and the lack of a need for expensive equipment, makes athletics one of the most common types of sports in the world. Athletics is mostly an individual sport, with the exception of relay races and competitions which combine athletes' performances for a team score, such as cross country. Organized athletics are traced back to the Ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC. The rules and format of the modern events in athletics were defined in Western Europe and North America in the 19th and early 20th century, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sport Governing Body
A sports governing body is a sports organization that has a regulatory or sanctioning function. Sports governing bodies come in various forms and have a variety of regulatory functions. Examples of this can include disciplinary action for rule infractions and deciding on rule changes in the sport that they govern. Governing bodies have different scopes. They may cover a range of sport at an international level, such as the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee, or only a single sport at a national level, such as the Rugby Football League. National bodies will largely have to be affiliated with international bodies for the same sport. The first international federations were formed at the end of the 20th century. Types of sports governing bodies Every sport has a different governing body that can define the way that the sport operates through its affiliated clubs and societies. This is because sports have different levels of difficulty and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ockert Cilliers
Ockert Cilliers (born 21 April 1981) is a South African 400 m hurdler. Born in Vanderbijlpark, Cilliers now lives in Sydney (Australia). He is 1.84 m tall and weighs 74 kg. His athletics career started in 1996 at school, where he also played rugby union. The rugby coach forced all players to take part in athletics as well. Cilliers chose 200m and 300m hurdles, and hurdling quickly became his primary interest. He is a member of the Fenerbahçe S.K. athletics club in Turkey. His current coach is Dr. Ria van den Berg. Competition record References External links *from IAAF World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body for ... South African male hurdlers 1981 births Living people People from Vanderbijlpark Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Goller
Thomas Goller (born 28 October 1977 in Dohna, Bezirk Dresden) is a retired German hurdler. He was banned from competing for two years for doping. Biography He won a bronze medal in a 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1997 European Athletics U23 Championships and two gold medals in the events of 400 metres hurdles and relay at the 1999 edition. At senior level he competed at the 1998 European Championships (9th place in 400 m hurdles), the 1999 World Championships (15th in 400 m hurdles and 11th in relay) and the 2000 Summer Olympics (16th in 400 m hurdles) without reaching the final. His personal best time was 48.54 seconds, achieved in June 1999 in Jena. This ranked him fifth on the German all-time list, behind Harald Schmid, Olaf Hense, Edgar Itt and Uwe Ackermann. Goller represented the sports clubs Dresdner SC, LAZ Leipzig and LG Asics Pirna. He was the German Champion in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2009 over the 400 metres hurdles. In May 2010 it was proved that Thomas Goller ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hemery
David Peter Hemery, (born 18 July 1944) is a British former track and field athlete, best known as the winner of the 400 metres hurdles at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Early life Hemery was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, but his father's accounting work took the family to the United States, where he attended school and graduated from Boston University. At one point the family had returned to Britain for a time, and Hemery moved back and forth across the Atlantic during his training. Athletics career Hemery's first International title came at the 1966 Commonwealth Games, where he won the 120 yd hurdles in 14.1 seconds, a title he retained four years later at the 1970 Commonwealth Games (by then it was the 110m hurdles which he won in 13.8 seconds). at 3:35. At the Mexico City Olympics in 1968, Hemery won the 400m hurdles in 48.12 seconds, a new world record. His margin of victory was the largest since 1924, beating second-placed Gerhard Hennige from West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Rawlinson
Christopher "Chris" Lee Rawlinson (born 19 May 1972) is a former track and field athlete who competed in the 400 metre hurdles. He also appeared in Gladiators (UK series 4), the 1995 series of the TV series ''Gladiators (1992 British TV series), Gladiators''. After trying the pole vault, decathlon and 110 m hurdles in his early career, Rawlinson found the gruelling 400 m hurdles to be his best event. A graduate of Loughborough University, until 2020 Rawlinson held the List of world records in athletics, world best of 34.48 seconds for the rarely run 300 m hurdles, which he set at Sheffield, England on 30 June 2002. In July 2004 he ranked third on the United Kingdom all-time list for the 400 m hurdles with a time of 48.14 seconds, set in 1999 at Zurich, Switzerland. In the build-up to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, Rawlinson was ranked number five in the world by the IAAF. Rawlinson retired from competitive athletics at the end of 2005 at the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of in 2019, and the metropolitan area had an estimated population of in 2021. During the Viking Age the area was part of Viken. Oslo was founded as a city at the end of the Viking Age in 1040 under the name Ánslo, and established as a ''kaupstad'' or trading place in 1048 by Harald Hardrada. The city was elevated to a bishopric in 1070 and a capital under Haakon V of Norway around 1300. Personal unions with Denmark from 1397 to 1523 and again from 1536 to 1814 reduced its influence. After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, during the reign of King Christian IV, a new city was built closer to Akershus Fortress and named Christiania in honour of the king. It became a municipality ('' formannskapsdistrikt'') on 1 January 1838. The city fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karsten Warholm
Karsten Warholm (; born 28 February 1996) is a Norwegian sprinter who competes in the 400 metres and 400 m hurdles. He’s the world record holder in the latter event. In July 2021, he broke the 29-year-old world record in 400 metres hurdles. The following month at the 2020 Summer Olympics, he won the gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles with a time of 45.94 seconds, breaking his own world record by over three-quarters of a second. Warholm has also won gold in the event at the World Championships in 2017 and 2019, as well as the 2018 European Championships. He is a two-time 400m hurdles Diamond League champion. In 2021, he was voted World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year. Career Early career In March 2013, Warholm won eight gold medals in the Norwegian Youth Indoors Championships.Malin Kjellstadli Korsnes and Tore Ellingseter (10 March 2013)Karsten Warholm tok åtte NM-gull på tre dagar NRK, retrieved 17 July 2013 In June at the 2013 Bislett Games, he competed in the 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Raschker
Eileen-Philippa "Phil" Raschker (born February 21, 1947) is a Germany, German-born American masters athletics, masters athlete. Raschker was born in Hamburg, where she first competed in swimming and gymnastics. She first tried track at age 13. She emigrated to the United States in the late 1960s and now is an accountant in Marietta, Georgia. She has amassed 71 Gold Medals at the World Masters Athletics Championships, including the three she won at the most recent championships in 2011, since she began competing at that level in 1983. As of 2010, she holds ten outdoor Masters Athletics World Records, Masters World Records across Sprint (running), sprints, hurdles and jumping events and another dozen indoors. August 1988 a major milestone was achieved when she was the first female to pole vault at a major USA track and field outdoor championship. She vaulted 8'-0 1/2" (age 40) at the Masters Track and Field Outdoor Championship. Competing as a 47 year old Masters athlete, Raschk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Fee
Earl Fee (born March 22, 1929) is a Canadian track and field athlete. Biography After being an above average high school and collegiate runner, Fee spent a career working as a nuclear engineer for the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, otherwise known as CANDU. After a 33-year hiatus from competitive athletics, he joined his sons Curtis and Tyler in a running program. At age 56, he ran his first race in masters athletics. Since then in 2020 he has set 60 age group world records including the still current records in the M80 and M85 200 metre hurdles, the M85, and M90 400 metres, and the M65, M70, M75, M80, M85, and M90 800 metres The 800 metres, or meters ( US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of an outdoor (400-metre) track and has been an Olympic event since the ....He has in 2020 a total of 17 indoor and outdoor WMA age group records including an indoor M75 mile an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masters M75 300 Metres Hurdles World Record Progression
This is the progression of world record improvements of the 300 metres hurdles M75 division of Masters athletics Masters athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of over 35 years of age. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running. Competitors are bracketed into five-year age groups (which promotes fair comp .... ;Key: References {{Reflist}Masters Athletics 300 m hurdles list Masters athletics world record progressions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Greenwood (athlete)
Jack Eldred Greenwood (February 5, 1926, in Steele City, Nebraska – January 9, 2015, in Aurora, Colorado) was an American track and field athlete. He is the former world record holder in the 400 metres hurdles in the masters age divisions M45, M50, M55, M60 and M65. His hurdle records were so advanced, the shortest any of them lasted was almost ten years, all but one broken by the same athlete, German Guido Müller. He had a similar record over the short hurdles. He also had his time at the top of the M50 and M60 400 meters and ten years at the top of the M65 200 meters (plus the M50 record). Two of his marks survive to this day as American records. Jack went tArgentine High Schoolin Kansas City, Kansas, where he was the Kansas state high hurdles champion before joining the Army in 1945. His son Riley MacGregor Greenwood would follow in his father's footsteps winning the same race in 1977 for Medicine Lodge High School. Following two years in the Army, Greenwood ran fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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