How Do You Set a Marathon World Record? Like other sanctioned race distances, marathon world records must be ratified by World Athletics (formerly the IAAF), the international governing body for ...

Runners tend to be competitive by nature, and even if you don’t like to enter races yourself (or even if you don’t like running at all!), it is still fun to look at running records and see who is the ...

Josh Kerr is one of the fastest runners in the world - and this summer, he made history! Jenny caught up with Josh in the Newsround studio to find out ...

Russian long distance runner Iskander Yadgarov has set a new world record for the fastest marathon ever ran while wearing ...