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The World's 10 Longest Auto Races Total Distance: 18,000 miles. Last month, 48 teams packed in street-legal cars from old Datsuns to new Jeep Wranglers left London for a 29-day, 8600-mile time-trial rally to Cape Town. The London to Cape Town World Cup Rally is one of a series of nonprofessional long-distance endurance rallies that has included 19 events since 1997. The longest of these was the 2000 Around the World in 80 Days rally: The race covered 18,000 miles, had 42 entries, and required nearly three months to drive. The cars were airlifted only twice, from Beijing to Alaska and then from New York to Marrakesh. Barney Gaylord/Chicagoland MG Club.
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Le Mans 24 hours : Distance and speed records. Le Mans 24 hours : Distance and speed records. Having reviewed the records for victories and participations (see article), with a special mention for Tom Kristensen and Henri Pescarolo, we now look at distance and speed. Some records seem hard to break, while others last only one or two races.
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Track and field The 1500 m and mile run events have historically been some of the most prestigious track and field events. Swedish rivals Gunder Hägg and Arne Andersson broke each other's 1500 m and mile world records on a number of occasions in the 1940s.
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5000 metres The 5000 m has been present on the Olympic programme since 1912 for men and since 1996 for women. Prior to 1996, women had competed in an Olympic 3000 metres race since 1984. The 5000 m is a standard international championship racing distance and has been held at the World Championships in Athletics since its first edition in 1983. The event is almost the same length as the dolichos race held at the Ancient Olympic Games, introduced in 720 BCE.
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- In Beijing, almost 50 years separated the oldest from the youngest athlete: Japanese horse rider Hiroshi Hoketsu took part in his third Olympic Games at the age of 67, whilst Cameroon swimmer, Antoinette Joyce Guedia Mouafo participated in the Games for the first time at the tender age of 12.
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Speed Skating Stadium - Max Aicher Arena Inzell, Germany. The Bavarian town of Inzell hosted the World Single Distant Speed Skating Championships 2011. To create the world-class competition conditions required for this event, the existing outdoor speed-skating track was upgraded through the construction of a high-performance intelligent roof structure.
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- Bloodhound SSC 1,000-MPH Land Speed Record Attempt To Be Streamed Live. The current world land speed record stands at 763.035 mph, as set in October 1997 by British Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green driving the jet-powered Thrust SSC. Green is looking to break his own record and has a new team and a new car behind him.
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From Aix en Provence to Marseille Train Tickets TGV: There is one word to describe TGV. Fast! World speed record holder, it zips from city to city at up to 322 kph (201 mph). With Paris as its hub, France's high speed network interconnects throughout Europe. TGV's high speed travel makes it an attractive alternative to the plane. If we had to find another word to describe the TGV, it would have to be “often”.
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Marathon The current world record time for men over the distance is 2 hours 2 minutes and 57 seconds, set in the Berlin Marathon by Dennis Kimetto of Kenya on 28 September 2014, an improvement of 26 seconds over the previous record also set in the Berlin Marathon by Wilson Kipsang, also of Kenya on 29 September 2013.he Boston Marathon is the world's oldest annual marathon, inspired by the success of the 1896 Olympic marathon and held every year since 1897 to celebrate Patriots Day, a holiday marking the beginning of the American Revolution, thereby purposely linking Athenian and American struggle for democracy.
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Longest ever running race Where. United States New York. When. The longest race ever staged was the 1929 trans-continental race from New York City to Los Angeles, California, USA of 5,850 km (3,635 miles). The Finnish-born Johnny Salo (1893-1931) was the winner in 1929 in 79 days, from 31 March to 17 June.
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Who holds the record for the fastest quarter mile run during the Olympics? From the first Olympics, in 1896, the one lap distance was always 400m so there is no Olympic quarter mile record. Some people (especially older British people) still call a 400m runner a quarter miler.
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- 150/14 hour(s), minute(s), second(s) Where. The longest marathon playing cricket is 150 hr 14 min and was achieved by Loughborough University Staff Cricket Club (UK) at Loughborough College Rubber Crumb in Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK, from 24 to 30 June 2012.
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Tommie Smith Smith's time of 19.83 was recognized as the first automatically timed world record for the event by the IAAF, nine years later. Tommie Smith (center) and John Carlos (right) showing the raised fist on the podium after the 200 m race at the 1968 Summer Olympics; both wear Olympic Project for Human Rights badges.
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This 13-Mile Racetrack In Germany Is The Most Daunting In The World This 13-Mile Racetrack In Germany Is The Most Daunting In The World. Hidden deep in Germany's Eifel Forest is one of the legends of the motoring world. 13 miles long. 985 feet of altitude change. 170 corners. This is the Nurburgring Nordschleife. Frequently called the Green Hell, the Nordschleife is one of the longest and scariest race tracks still in existence today. With blind hills, narrow straights, and trees lining the entire track, one mistake can be the difference between life and death.
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Racewalking Races have been walked at distances as short as 3 kilometres (1.9 mi)—at the 1920 Summer Olympics —and as long as 100 km (62.1 mi) . The men's world record for the 50-mile race walk is held by Israeli Shaul Ladany, whose time of 7:23:50 in 1972 beat the world record that had stood since 1935. The modern Olympic events are the 20 km (12.4 mi) race walk (men and women) and 50 km (31 mi) race walk (men only).
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Ironman 70.3 The 70.3 refers to the total distance in miles (113.0 km) covered in the race, consisting of a 1.2-mile (1.9 km) swim, a 56-mile (90 km) bike ride, and a 13.1-mile (21.1 km) run.owever, prior to the launch of the 70.3 series in 2005, races were then known as Half Ironman before adopting the Ironman 70.3 label. The oldest half iron-distance race, though not under the WTC umbrella at the time, is the Superfrog Triathlon, which began in 1979.
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What was the fastest 5k run ever? The International Association of Athletics Federations does not recognize world records over the 5 km road distance. Other statistical organisations, including the Association of Road Racing Statisticians, record best times for the event.[21] Records for the 5K are often noted in national records in athletics.
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List of cycling records Allan Abbott, a cycling enthusiast and motorcycle racer, elevated the motor-paced bicycle speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats, reaching 223 km/h (139 mph) in 1973.he hour record for bicycles is the record for the longest distance cycled in one hour on a bicycle. The most famous type of record is for upright bicycles meeting the requirements of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) for old or modern bicycles.
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- United States Columbus. When. The fastest sport stacking individual cycle stack is 5.000 seconds and was achieved by William Orrell (USA), at the WSSA Girls Incorporated of Columbus and Phenix-Russell Open Sport Stacking Tournament in Columbus, Georgia, USA, on 31 January 2015.
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Koenigsegg Agera The Koenigsegg Agera is a mid-engined sports car produced by Swedish car manufacturer Koenigsegg from March 2011 until 2017. It is a successor to the Koenigsegg CCX/CCXR. The name comes from the Swedish verb 'agera' which means to act or in imperative form  act!. It was named Hypercar of the Year in 2010 by Top Gear Magazine. As of November 2017 the Agera RS model is the world's-fastest production car, with a GPS-verified two-way average top speed of 277.9 mph and a fastest straight-line spe
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- Van Niekerk smashes 400m world record - South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk ran the fastest single lap in history to win the 400 meters gold medal in 43.03 seconds and break a 17-year-old world record at the Olympic Games on Sunday.
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Using WPS PIN Mode to Connect to a Network Using WPS PIN Mode to Connect to a Network. If you have a WPS-enabled wireless router or access point that supports PIN mode, you can use Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) PIN mode to connect your scanner to the network. Set the connection mode switch on the scanner to AP mode. Open the input tray.
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Speed limit The first maximum speed limit was the 10 mph (16 km/h) limit introduced in the United Kingdom in 1861. The highest posted speed limit in the world is 140 km/h (87 mph), which applies to some motorways in Poland and Bulgaria; similarly Texas posts 85 mph (137 km/h) on one 40-mile (64 km) long toll road. However, some roads have no speed limit for certain classes of vehicles.
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Speed Art Museum Speed Art Museum. The Speed Art Museum, originally known as the J.B. Speed Memorial Museum, now colloquially referred to as the Speed by locals, is the oldest, largest, and foremost museum of art in Kentucky. It is located in Louisville, Kentucky on Third Street next to the University of Louisville Belknap campus and receives around 180,000 visits annually.
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FIA World Land Speed Records WORLD RECORDS. There are many World Records for different categories but the most famous is the Outright World Land Speed Record-this is the Absolute World Record for the 1 Mile Flying Start. Absolute World Records are for a given distance or elapsed time, independent of Category, Group, or Class.
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Flight airspeed record In October 1941, an unofficial speed record of 1004 km/h (624 mph) was secretly set by a Messerschmitt Me 163 AV4 rocket aircraft. Continued research during the war extended the secret, unofficial speed record to 1130 km/h (702 mph) by July 1944, achieved by a Messerschmitt Me 163B V18.