Each marathoner appears on the first list, for the fastest performers in history, only once. The third set of tables, for fastest performances in history, allows for a runner to appear more than once.

The first and second lists record the fastest performers in history, which is why you’ll see a name only once. The third and fourth lists, showing the fastest performances in history, allow for ...

Canadian runner Curtis Hargrove, 36, is attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon by a male in ...

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone made history at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Thursday, setting the ...

Wilma Rudolph, a Clarksville native, overcame childhood illnesses and became the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympics (1960 Rome). Rudolph was a civil rights activist, ...

Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir smashed the world record for the half marathon in women-only races on Saturday, completing a 21.1-kilometre course in Prague in one hour 05.34 minutes.

During his tenure as the cross country and track and field coach at Montgomery High School, Larry Meredith coached a future two-time Olympian and an American record holder — but in February 2020, his ...

Set to open next year, the Tormenta Rampaging Run, themed after the running of the bulls in Spain, will be the tallest, fastest, and longest dive coaster in the world, the park said. Its extreme specs ...

Usain Bolt is no longer lightning-fast. “When I walk up the stairs, I get out of breath,” the eight-time Olympic gold medalist admitted to reporters at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, per ...