Four track meets and six races later, Robinson was an Olympic champion and a joint world record-holder.
The current record-holder for current, as it were, is SuperPower, a firm based in Schenectady, New York.
In the past, the organization has arranged for a rice cooker in the room of marathon world record-holder Paula Radcliffe.
World champion and world record-holder Liu Haixia of China was not competing because the hosts chose to prioritize other weight categories.
At least one from Bolt, Gay or former world record-holder Asafa Powell will be scheduled to run at every Diamond League meeting.
That makes its failure nearly three times larger than Japan's previous record-holder.
In London, Bolt will be running against compatriot and former world record-holder Asafa Powell in the 100m, and with him in the relay.
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She finished second in that race behind U.S. record-holder Helen Filkey.
"Emotionally it kicks you in the guts, " said the world record-holder who has now failed three times to win an Olympic medal of any colour.
In the 30th running of the event, run in cool, overcast conditions, the half marathon world record-holder finished 1:50 ahead of Kimutai with Morocco's Jaouad Gharib third.
Former 100-meter world record-holder Asafa Powell tweeted about Steenkamp's death.
Porter Hall, an Alabamian who has spent his life on the quest, is building a 25-acre lake in Mississippi, in which he plans to grow the next world record-holder.
But he has been surpassed by Rafael Nadal on the list of all-time Masters Series titles after the Spaniard won in Rome to match record-holder Andre Agassi on 17.
Before Dibaba, the great Kenenisa Bekele -- a three-time Olympic champion and double world record-holder in the 5, 000 and 10, 000m -- was the most famous product of the area.
The previous record-holder in terms of aggregate market-cap was Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) which hit its all-time high on December 30, 1999 at the height of the technology bubble.
Priority Sports was announced today in Nike Town, London, replete with the likes of marathon world record-holder Paula Radcliffe ready to talk up the new service which lands in August.
Earlier in the day, marathon world record-holder Haile Gebrselassie, 35, will hope to triumph in the Great Manchester Run, an event which he won in 2005 in a then-record time of 27 minutes 25 seconds.
World record-holder Michael Johnson set the fastest 400m time in the world this year on Saturday and then revealed he had cruised to the 43.92 second time after feeling a slight twinge in his left leg.
Much has been made of the fact Twell was quicker than the future marathon world record-holder over 3, 000m at 17, but by 18 their paths had already diverged, with Radcliffe's focus on the longer distances starting to tell.
On a dramatic day for Britain's athletes, new national indoor record-holder Kate Dennison jumped an impressive 4.35m in the pole vault final but needed to break another GB record to progress and had to settle for sixth position.
Wilkinson extended his world-record points tally to 1, 119 with a penalty after 15 minutes, while All Blacks fullback Mils Muliaina had a try ruled out by the video referee before Carter overtook Andrew Mehrtens as the Kiwis' overall record-holder with another kick seven minutes later.
Paterson, who became Scotland's record cap-holder and points scorer last month, left Edinburgh in July 2007 amid uncertainty over the club's future.
It was almost an afterthought that Eaton, already the indoor world-record holder in the heptathlon, broke Dan O'Brien's 20-year-old American record of 8, 891 points.
Reno informs us that, as a young girl, she loved the celebrated land-speed-record holder, Flip Farmer.
Lochte, the world-record holder, went 1:54.9, followed by Hungary's Laszlo Cseh in 1:56.22.
On a cold, rainy afternoon, the American-record holder eased to victory in the 100 meters, finishing in 10.02 seconds into a headwind Saturday.
But the marathon world-record holder, 37, surged clear at halfway to win by a huge margin from Kenya's Kiplimo Kimutai in a time of 59:33.
The multi world-record holder has endeared himself to his home nation both in and away from the pool since he first made an impact at the 1998 World Championships.
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