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200 metres hurdles
The 200 metres hurdles is a rarely run hurdling event in track and field competitions. Sometimes, this event is referred to as the low hurdles. It was run twice in the Summer Olympics, in 1900 and 1904.
Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 22.50:
Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 26.16:
The event is the official distance for the M80+ and W70+ divisions of Masters athletics. The height for all hurdles in these age groups is 27 in (69 cm), and the arrangement of the hurdles is different from the previous version of the race. The distance to the first hurdle is 20 metres, which corresponds with the markings for the last half of a 400 metres hurdle race, standard on most tracks. Because, like the flat 200 metres, the race only covers half of a standard track, a wind reading is required.
The idea of using 27 in (69 cm) hurdles was introduced in Europe in 2000. Standard hurdles do not accommodate this height, which caused resistance from some NGBs, but the rules were adopted worldwide. Many hurdles will not go to that height at all, or would only do so if they were cut down. Most facilities that have spent thousands of dollars to buy regulation hurdles would not allow them to be damaged by cutting. Since it is a requirement, major championship meets have purchased a few sets of modified hurdles, and ship these few hurdles between meets.[citation needed] As a substitute, many older hurdle designs are easier to modify, and most facilities are less protective of old equipment. Also many training hurdles (used to teach smaller, youth beginners) will go to 27 inches and lower.[citation needed]
After setting the world record for the 300 metres hurdles during its last year on the official program at age 80, Canadian Earl Fee set the still standing world record of 36.95 (+0.0) a year later at the NCCWMA Regional Championships in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico on September 5, 2010. Almost four years later, Fee also set the M85 record of 42.70 (+0.4) in the same meet, this time being held in San Jose, Costa Rica on August 23, 2014. The M90 record of 51.31 was set a month earlier by American Ralph Maxwell with the benefit of high altitude in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA at the Rocky Mountain Masters Games.
Australian Marge Allison holds the W70 record of 36.71 (+0.7), set August 12, 2015 in Lyon, France, at the 2015 World Masters Athletics Championships. Allison also holds the W65 record set four years earlier at the same championships. Canadian Christa Bortignon set the W75 record of 39.89 (+0.0) at a domestic meet in Kamloops, British Columbia on May 18, 2013. American sprinting legend Irene Obera learned hurdles sufficiently to set the W80 record 42.24 (+1.2) on July 20, 2014, at the USATF Masters Championships in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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200 metres hurdles
The 200 metres hurdles is a rarely run hurdling event in track and field competitions. Sometimes, this event is referred to as the low hurdles. It was run twice in the Summer Olympics, in 1900 and 1904.
Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 22.50:
Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 26.16:
The event is the official distance for the M80+ and W70+ divisions of Masters athletics. The height for all hurdles in these age groups is 27 in (69 cm), and the arrangement of the hurdles is different from the previous version of the race. The distance to the first hurdle is 20 metres, which corresponds with the markings for the last half of a 400 metres hurdle race, standard on most tracks. Because, like the flat 200 metres, the race only covers half of a standard track, a wind reading is required.
The idea of using 27 in (69 cm) hurdles was introduced in Europe in 2000. Standard hurdles do not accommodate this height, which caused resistance from some NGBs, but the rules were adopted worldwide. Many hurdles will not go to that height at all, or would only do so if they were cut down. Most facilities that have spent thousands of dollars to buy regulation hurdles would not allow them to be damaged by cutting. Since it is a requirement, major championship meets have purchased a few sets of modified hurdles, and ship these few hurdles between meets.[citation needed] As a substitute, many older hurdle designs are easier to modify, and most facilities are less protective of old equipment. Also many training hurdles (used to teach smaller, youth beginners) will go to 27 inches and lower.[citation needed]
After setting the world record for the 300 metres hurdles during its last year on the official program at age 80, Canadian Earl Fee set the still standing world record of 36.95 (+0.0) a year later at the NCCWMA Regional Championships in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico on September 5, 2010. Almost four years later, Fee also set the M85 record of 42.70 (+0.4) in the same meet, this time being held in San Jose, Costa Rica on August 23, 2014. The M90 record of 51.31 was set a month earlier by American Ralph Maxwell with the benefit of high altitude in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA at the Rocky Mountain Masters Games.
Australian Marge Allison holds the W70 record of 36.71 (+0.7), set August 12, 2015 in Lyon, France, at the 2015 World Masters Athletics Championships. Allison also holds the W65 record set four years earlier at the same championships. Canadian Christa Bortignon set the W75 record of 39.89 (+0.0) at a domestic meet in Kamloops, British Columbia on May 18, 2013. American sprinting legend Irene Obera learned hurdles sufficiently to set the W80 record 42.24 (+1.2) on July 20, 2014, at the USATF Masters Championships in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.