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This article is about the track race and is not to be confused with 20K run, the same distance run on a road.
The 20,000 metres (approximately 12.43 mi or 65,617 ft) is a rarely contested long-distance running event in track and field competitions; most world records in the event have been set during half marathons and one-hour races, as a half marathon is roughly 21,000 meters.
World Records
+ = indicates a time was taken at an intermediate distance in a longer race
Men
Zersenay Tadese in the lead pack of the 2013 Prague Half MarathonUpdated January 2024.
Tegla Loroupe's 20,000 meter world record was mentioned in Chapter 1, problem 64P of Chemistry (Seventh Edition) by John E. McMurry, Robert C. Fay, and Jill Kirsten Robinson. [11]