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Middle distance track events are track races longer than sprints up to (and arguably including) 3000 metres.

standard middle distances are the 800 m, 1500 m, mile (in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
), and the 3000 m (which is viewed by some as more of a long distance event). In the United States, the 3000 m is more common at the high school and collegiate levels (along with the US two mile).






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Middle distance track events are track races longer than sprints up to (and arguably including) 3000 metres.

Middle distance events

The standard middle distances are the 800 m, 1500 m, mile (in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
), and the 3000 m (which is viewed by some as more of a long distance event). In the United States, the 3000 m is more common at the high school and collegiate levels (along with the US two mile). In Japan, the 800, 1500 and 3000 meter events are competed in both genders for junior high school and high school
High school

High school is the name used in some parts of the world to describe an institution which provides all or part of secondary education. The term originated in Scotland and spread to the New World countries as the high prestige that the Scottish educational system had at the time led several countries to employ Scottish educators to develop the...
, except that high school boys jump to 5000 meters. Both 3000 and 5000 meter distances are sometimes described as long distance but also frequently as middle distance, depending on the context. From the perspective of a longer race like a half marathon, marathon or relays such as the ekiden
Ekiden

DefinitionAn , originally referred to a post-horse or stagecoach which transmitted communicaton by stages, and now usually refers to a long-distance relay race, typically a road race....
 relay, the 5000 meter race might be viewed as middle distance.

What constitutes a good mark for each event of course varies by gender, age, individual, intensity of training/competition, point in the competitive season and many other factors.

600 m

This middle distance length is rather uncommon, and is mainly run by sprinters wishing to test their endurances at a longer distance. The 600 m is also used as an early season stepping stone by 800 m runners before they have reached full race fitness. The record at this distance is for men:

  • Johnny Gray
    Johnny Gray

    John Lee Gray was an United States 800 m runner of the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1985 he set the US record of 1:42.60 min at a meet in Koblenz....
     (United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    ) 1:12.81 Santa Monica
    Santa Monica, California

    Santa Monica is a city in western Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. Situated on Santa Monica Bay of the Pacific Ocean, it is completely surrounded by the City of Los Angeles ? Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood, Los Angeles, California on the north, West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California on the northeast...
     24 May, 1986


For women:

  • Ana Fidelia Quirot
    Ana Fidelia Quirot

    Ana Fidelia Quirot is an Athletics from Cuba, who specialised in the 800 metres but was also successful over 400 metres.Quirot won a silver medal at the 1991 IAAF World Championships in Athletics and a bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona....
     (Cuba
    Cuba

    The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
    ) 1:22.63 Guadalajara
    Guadalajara, Spain

    Guadalajara is a city and municipality in the autonomous communities of Spain of Castile-La Mancha, Spain, and in the natural region of La Alcarria....
     25 July, 1997


800 m

The 800 m consists of two laps around a standard 400 m track
Race track

A race track is a purpose-built facility for racing of animals , automobiles, motorcycles or sportsperson. A race track may also feature grandstands or concourses....
, and has always been an Olympic
Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
 event. It was included in the first women's track programme in 1928, but suspended until 1960 because of shock and the exhaustion it caused the competitors. Without the benefits of modern training, men of the era were, in contrast, expected to run themselves to complete exhaustion during competitions. The current record is for men:

  • Wilson Kipketer
    Wilson Kipketer

    Wilson Kipketer is a former Denmark Middle distance track event running. He holds the current world records at both indoor and outdoor 800 m and the indoor 1000 m metre distances....
     (Denmark
    Denmark

    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
    ), 1:41.11 Cologne
    Cologne

    Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants....
     24 August, 1997


For women:

  • Jarmila Kratochvílová
    Jarmila Kratochvílová

    is a former late-developing Czech people 400 m runner whose career was dogged by injury and illness. Always in the shadow of Marita Koch she hit peak form in 1983 aged 32....
     (Czechoslovakia
    Czechoslovakia

    Czechoslovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918 until 1992 . On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia....
    ) 1:53.28 Munich
    Munich

    Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
    , 26 July, 1983


1000 m

This distance is not commonly raced, though it is more common than the 500 m event is for sprinters. This is commonly raced as an indoor men's heptathlon
Heptathlon

A heptathlon is a track and field athletics combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek hepta and athlon ....
 event, or as an indoor high school event. The record at this distance for men is:

  • Noah Ngeny
    Noah Ngeny

    Noah Kiprono Ngeny is a Kenyan Athletics , and the surprise winner of the 1500 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics....
     (Kenya
    Kenya

    The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....
    ) 2:11.96 Rieti
    Rieti

    Rieti is a town in Lazio, central Italy, with a population of c. 47,700. It is the capital of province of Rieti.The town centre rests on a small hilltop, commanding a wide plain at the southern edge of an ancient lake....
     5 September, 1999


For women:

  • Svetlana Masterkova
    Svetlana Masterkova

    Svetlana Alexandrovna Masterkova is a Russian former middle distance runner and current world record holder for the mile. At the 1996 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal in both the 800 and 1,500 metres....
     (Russia
    Russia

    Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
    ) 2:28.98 Munich
    Munich

    Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
     23 August, 1996


1200 m

A distance seldom raced on its own, but commonly raced as part of the Distance Medley Relay
Distance Medley Relay

The Distance Medley Relay is an athletic event in which four athletes compete as part of a relay. Unlike most track relays, each member of the team runs a different distance....
.

1500 m

Along with the 800 m, this is a premier middle-distance race, covering three and three-quarter laps around a standard Olympic-sized track. In recent years, races over this distance have become more of a prolonged sprint, with each lap averaging 55 seconds for the world record performance by Hicham El Guerrouj
Hicham El Guerrouj

Hicham El Guerrouj is a Morocco former Middle distance track event. He is the World records in athletics holder for the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 1500 metres , the World record progression for the mile run and the outdoor Middle_distance_track_event#2000_m , and a double Olympic Games gold medalist....
 of Morocco
Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....
 in 1998 at Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
 (two 1:50 s 800 m performances back to back). Thus, speed is necessary, and it seems that the more aerobic conditioning
Aerobic conditioning

Aerobic conditioning is a process whereby one trains the heart to pump blood more efficiently, allowing more oxygen to get to muscles and organ ....
, the better. This is a difficult distance to compete at, mentally, in addition to being one of the more tactical middle-distance track events. The distance is often witness to some of the most tactical, physical races in the sport, as many championship races are won in the final few metres. The record at this distance for men is:

  • Hicham El Guerrouj
    Hicham El Guerrouj

    Hicham El Guerrouj is a Morocco former Middle distance track event. He is the World records in athletics holder for the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 1500 metres , the World record progression for the mile run and the outdoor Middle_distance_track_event#2000_m , and a double Olympic Games gold medalist....
     (Morocco
    Morocco

    Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....
    ) 3:26.00 Rome
    Rome

    Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
     14 July, 1998


For women:

  • Qu Yunxia
    Qu Yunxia

    Qu Yunxia is a Chinese Olympic games athlete who specialized in the 1500 metres.At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona she won a bronze medal on 1500 m....
     (China
    China

    China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
    ) 3:50.46 Beijing
    Beijing

    is a metropolis in northern China and the Capital of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the four municipality of China, which are equivalent to province in China's Political divisions of China....
     11 September, 1993


1600 m

At exactly four laps of a normal 400 m track, this distance is raced as the metric mile
Metric mile

Metric mile is a distance which approximates one statute mile at a round figure of metres . The term is most commonly used in track running and swimming....
 as a near replacement for the mile (it is, in fact, about 9 m shorter; however, it is still colloquially referred to as "the mile"). The 1500 m, however, is the most popular distance run at the college
College

File:Government college for Women Dhoke Kala Khan.JPGCollege is a term most often used today to denote an education institution. More broadly, it can be the name of any group of collegialitys, for example, an electoral college, a College of Arms or the College of Cardinals....
 and international levels.

Mile

This length of middle-distance race, 1760 yards, (1609.344 metres), is very common in countries that don't use the metric system
Si

Si, si, or SI may refer to :...
, and is still often referred to as the "Blue Riband
Blue Riband

The Blue Riband is an unofficial accolade given to the passenger liner with the record highest speed on a regular transatlantic crossing. The term was borrowed from horse racing and was not widely used until after 1910....
" of the track.

When the International Amateur Athletic Federation
International Association of Athletics Federations

The International Association of Athletics Federations is the international Sport governing body for the sport of athletics . It was founded in 1912 during a war, at its first congress in Stockholm, Sweden, Sweden by representatives from 17 national athletics federations as the International Amateur Athletics Federation....
 decided in 1976 to recognise only world records for metric distances, it made an exception for the mile and records are kept to this day.

Historically, the mile took the place that the 1500 m has today. It is still raced on the world class level, but usually only at select occasions, like the famous Wanamaker Mile
Wanamaker Mile

The Wanamaker Mile is an event held annually at the Millrose Games in New York City's Madison Square Garden.The event is an indoor one-mile race....
 held annually at the Millrose Games
Millrose Games

The Millrose Games is an annual indoor athletics meet held on the first Friday in February in New York City Madison Square Garden since 1914. The games were started when employees of the Wanamaker's formed the Millrose Track Club to hold a meet....
. The distance can be romantically appreciated as a remnant of the past, but is, of course, still fiercely contested. Running a mile in less than four minutes is a famously difficult achievement, long thought impossible by the scientific community. The first man to break the four minute barrier
Four-minute mile

In athletics , the four-minute mile is the running of a mile in less than four minutes. It was first achieved in 1954 by Roger Bannister. The 'four minute barrier' has since been broken by many male athletes, and is now the standard of all professional Middle distance track event runners....
 was Englishman
Englishman

Englishman may refer to:*English people*grey partridge* Jenny-Bea Englishman, real name of the Canadien singer Esthero...
 Roger Bannister
Roger Bannister

Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister, Order of the British Empire is an England former athlete best known as the first man in history to run the mile in Four-minute mile....
 at Oxford
Oxford

Oxford is a City status in the United Kingdom, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. It has a population of 151,000. The rivers River Cherwell and River Thames run through Oxford and meet south of the city centre....
 in 1954. The term "miler" is sometimes also applied to a 1500 m runner. The record at this distance for men is:

  • Hicham El Guerrouj
    Hicham El Guerrouj

    Hicham El Guerrouj is a Morocco former Middle distance track event. He is the World records in athletics holder for the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 1500 metres , the World record progression for the mile run and the outdoor Middle_distance_track_event#2000_m , and a double Olympic Games gold medalist....
     (Morocco
    Morocco

    Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....
    ) 3:43.13 Rome
    Rome

    Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
     7 July, 1999


For women:

  • Svetlana Masterkova
    Svetlana Masterkova

    Svetlana Alexandrovna Masterkova is a Russian former middle distance runner and current world record holder for the mile. At the 1996 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal in both the 800 and 1,500 metres....
     (Russia
    Russia

    Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
    ) 4:12.56 Zürich
    Zürich

    Z?rich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Z?rich. The city is Switzerland's main commercial and cultural centre and sometimes called the Cultural Capital of Switzerland, the political capital of Switzerland being Berne....
     14 August, 1996


2000 m

  • Another event that is rarely run, a miler's speed will generally allow him/her to prevail at this distance over less balanced challengers. The record at this distance for men is:


  • Hicham El Guerrouj
    Hicham El Guerrouj

    Hicham El Guerrouj is a Morocco former Middle distance track event. He is the World records in athletics holder for the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 1500 metres , the World record progression for the mile run and the outdoor Middle_distance_track_event#2000_m , and a double Olympic Games gold medalist....
     (Morocco
    Morocco

    Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....
    ) 4:44.79 Berlin
    Berlin

    Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
     September 7, 1999


For women:

  • Sonia O'Sullivan
    Sonia O'Sullivan

    Sonia O'Sullivan is an Republic of Ireland runner from Cobh, County Cork. She was one of the world's leading female 5000m runners for most of the 1990s and early 2000s....
     (Ireland
    Republic of Ireland

    Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....
    ) 5:25.36 Edinburgh
    Edinburgh

    Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
     July 8, 1994


3000 m

  • Truly on the borderline between middle and longer distances, the 3000 m (7.5 laps) is a standard race in the United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    , though it is not raced at the outdoor IAAF World Championships
    IAAF World Championships in Athletics

    The World Championships in Athletics is an event organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations . Originally, it was organised every four years, but this changed in 1991, and it has since been organised biennially....
    . This race requires decent speed, but a lack of natural quickness can be made up for with superior aerobic conditioning and supporting race tactics. The record at this distance for men is:


  • Daniel Komen
    Daniel Komen

    Daniel Kipngetich Komen is a Kenyan Middle distance track event and Long-distance track event. Komen is the only man to achieve back-to-back four-minute mile, and is also the second man ever to break both the 13-minute mark in the 5,000-meter run and the 3?-minute mark for the 1,500-meter run....
     (Kenya
    Kenya

    The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....
    ) 7:20.67 Rieti
    Rieti

    Rieti is a town in Lazio, central Italy, with a population of c. 47,700. It is the capital of province of Rieti.The town centre rests on a small hilltop, commanding a wide plain at the southern edge of an ancient lake....
     1 September, 1996


For women:

  • Junxia Wang
    Wang Junxia

    Wang Junxia is a Chinese race former long-distance runner....
     (China
    China

    China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
    ) 8:06.11 Beijing
    Beijing

    is a metropolis in northern China and the Capital of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the four municipality of China, which are equivalent to province in China's Political divisions of China....
     13 September, 1993


3200 m

At exactly 8 laps on a standard 400 m track, this event is typically run only in American high school
High school

High school is the name used in some parts of the world to describe an institution which provides all or part of secondary education. The term originated in Scotland and spread to the New World countries as the high prestige that the Scottish educational system had at the time led several countries to employ Scottish educators to develop the...
s along with the 1600 m. It is colloquially called the "two-mile," as the distance is only about 18 metres shorter than two miles. In college, the typical runner of this event would convert to the 3,000 metre run.

5000 m


2,000 metre steeplechase


3,000 metre steeplechase


  • The 3,000 metre Steeplechase
    Steeplechase (athletics)

    The steeplechase is an obstacle race in athletics , which derives its name from the steeplechase in horse racing....
     is a distance event requiring greater strength, stamina, and agility than the flat 3,000 metre event. This is because athletes are requied to jump over five barriers per lap, after a flat first 200 m to allow for settling in. One barrier per lap is placed in front of a water pit, meaning that runners are also forced to deal with the chaffing of wet shoes as they race. The world record for men is:


  • Saif Saeed Shaheen (Qatar
    Qatar

    Qatar , officially the State of Qatar , is an Arab emirate in Southwest Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the larger Arabian Peninsula....
    ) 7:53.63 Brussels
    Brussels

    Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
     3 September, 2004


For women:

  • Gulnara Samitova
    Gulnara Samitova

    File:Gulnara Samitova-Galkina on 2008 Summer Olympics.jpgGulnara Iskanderovna Samitova-Galkina is a Russian middle-distance runner. In July 2004 she ran 3000 metres steeplechase in a new world records in athletics of 9:01.59....
     (Russia
    Russia

    Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
    ) 8:58.81 Beijing
    Beijing

    is a metropolis in northern China and the Capital of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the four municipality of China, which are equivalent to province in China's Political divisions of China....
     17 August, 2008

Middle Distance Times: Youth Focus


The tables below do not focus on record times but rather on the performance of many runners in a given year (in this case, 2007 and 2008). These are the top 100 (or even 500) junior high school and high school runners in Japan and the USA. Results from other countries would be welcomed.

800 meters


800 meters Age Group Country # of Athletes Time Range 2007 Time Range 2008
Boys Junior High School Japan Top 200 1:56.06 - 2:03.91
Boys Middle School USA Top 500 2:00.67 - 2:29.00
Boys High School Japan Top 100 1:51.66 - 1:56.34 1:50.85 - 1:57.87
Boys High School USA Top 100 1:48.63 - 1:53.82 1:48.6 - 1:53.77
Girls Junior High School Japan Top 100 2:09.87 - 2:19.02
Girls Middle School USA Top 500 2:18.03 - 2:48.00
Girls High School Japan Top 100 2:07.34 - 2:16.34 2:06.47 - 2:15.70
Girls High School USA Top 100 2:02.38 - 2:12.83 2:01.61 - 2:13.09


1500 meters

A few states of the USA use this distance, among them Oregon and Florida.

1500 meters Age Group Country # of Athletes Time Range 2007 Time Range 2008
Boys Junior High School Japan Top 150 3:59.40 - 4:13.77
Boys Middle School USA Top 200 4:21.07 - 5:17
Boys High School Japan Top 100 3:51.65 - 3:59.10 3:44.21 - 3:57.87
Boys High School USA Top 31, Top 100 3:47.31 - 3:59.68 3:49.51 - 4:08.0
Girls Junior High School Japan Top 200 4:23.92 - 4:45.49
Girls Middle School USA Top 200 4:58.73 - 6:01.00
Girls High School Japan Top 200 4:20.44 - 4:37.68 4:17.13 - 4:36.64
Girls High School USA Top 28, Top 200 4:16.98 - 4:39.92 4:14.50 - 4:55.0

1600 meters


1600 meters Age Group Country # of Athletes Time Range 2007 Time Range 2008
Boys Middle School USA Top 200 4:39.0 - 5:24.0
Boys High School USA Top 100, Top 200 4:04.9 to 4:15.05 4:00.29 to 4:18.0
Girls Middle School USA Top 200 5:09.26 - 6:07.5
Girls High School USA Top 100, Top 200 4:38.15 to 4:58.15 4:33.82 to 5:03.0

3000 meters

A few states of the USA use this distance, among them Oregon and Florida.

3000 meters Age Group Country # of Athletes Time Range 2007 Time Range 2008
Boys Junior High School Japan Top 250 8:27.57 - 9:09.8
Boys Middle School USA Top 100 9:36.35 - 12:05
Boys High School Japan Top 50 8:17.85 - 8:40.14 7:59.12 - 8:32.69
Boys High School USA Top 23, Top 100 8:09.09 - 8:31.80 8:28.46 - 9:04.0
Girls Junior High School Japan Top 100 9:12.89 - 10:06.89
Girls Middle School USA Top 30 10:54.8 - 12:47.67
Girls High School Japan Top 400 9:04.63 - 9:59.02 8:58.77 - 9:56.75
Girls High School USA Top 50, Top 100 9:26.9 - 10:06.6 9:15.11 - 10:25.0

3200 meters


3200 meters Age Group Country # of Athletes Time Range 2007 Time Range 2008
Boys Middle School USA Top 150 10:54.33 - 13:10
Boys High School USA Top 100 8:46.04 - 9:13.1 8:34.23 - 9:15.54
Girls Middle School USA Top 70 12:03.05 - 15:40/28
Girls High School USA Top 100 10:04.07 - 10:52.32 9:52.13 - 10:51.52

2000 meter steeplechase

In the USA, the steeplechase is still relatively uncommon in high school. One example is New York state, where high school boys compete in the 3000 meter steeplechase and the high school girls compete in the 2000 meter steeplechase. In many states, both boys and girls compete in the 2000 meter steeple chase.

2000 meter steeplechase Age Group Country # of Athletes Time Range 2007 Time Range 2008
Boys High School USA Top 5, Top 100 5:52.63 - 6:03.33 5:54.58 - 7:48.40
Girls High School Japan Top 2 7:06.62 and 7:23.11  
Girls High School USA Top 5, Top 100 16:36.34 - 16:50.47 6:42.86 - 8:11.0

3000 meter steeplechase


3000 meter steeplechase Age Group Country # of Athletes Time Range 2007 Time Range 2008
Boys High School Japan Top 100 9:06.10 - 9:26.91 8:54.55 - 9:25.34
Boys High School USA Top 10, Top 100 9:08.11 - 9:35.80 9:07.02 - 10:50.0
Girls High School Japan Top 2 10:50.14 and 10:52.84  
Girls High School USA Top 1, 10:52.82 10:42.22

5000 meters


Japanese high school boys regularly run 5000 meters on the track rather than 3000 meters. USA high school boys rarely run this distance except during cross country.

5000 meters Age Group Country # of Athletes Time Range 2007 Time Range 2008
Boys High School Japan Top 500 14:00.8 - 14:57.57 13:33.24 - 14:56.94
Boys High School USA Top 5 13:55.96 - 14:41.96
Girls High School Japan Top 200 15:27.98 - 17:24.99 15:02.28 - 17:19.84
Girls High School USA Top 5 16:36.34 - 16:50.47 16:18.91 - 17:20.07


See also

  • Athletics (track and field)
    Athletics (track and field)

    Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping....
  • The Flying Finns
    Flying Finn (athlete)

    "The Flying Finn" was a nickname given to several Finland Middle-distance and Long-distance running runners. The term has such international renown that it is often attached to notable Finnish sportsmen whose exploits are fleet of foot or have to do with fast cars....
  • Sprints
    Sprint (race)

    Sprints are short running races in athletics . They are roughly classified as events in which top runners will not have to "pace themselves", but can run as fast as possible for the entire distance....
  • Athletics long distances
    Long-distance track event

    Long-distance track event track running require runners to balance their energy. Because these types of races are very energy-consuming, one requires mental determination and aerobic conditioning, since stamina is a bigger factor than speed....
  • Relay race
    Relay race

    During a relay race, members of a team take turns running, orienteering, swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon, or skating parts of a circuit or performing a certain action....
  • Ekiden
    Ekiden

    DefinitionAn , originally referred to a post-horse or stagecoach which transmitted communicaton by stages, and now usually refers to a long-distance relay race, typically a road race....