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Athletic Distances Conversion

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

Table below shows typical olympic and championship athletic distances (race and walk) in metric system of measurement (meters and kilometers) and their conversion into imperial and us system of measurement (yards and miles). For example, as you can see, 100 meters (shortest outdor sprint distance) is equal to 0.1 kilometer [km], 109.4 yards [yd] and 0.06 imperial mile [mi]; 400 m in yards is 437.4 yd; Marathon distance in miles is 26.667 etc.

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Meters Kilometers Yards Miles Info/Sport
100 0.1 109.3613 0.0621  
110 0.11 120.2975 0.0684 Hurdles
200 0.2 218.7227 0.1243  
400 0.4 437.4453 0.2485  
800 0.8 874.8906 0.4971  
1500 1.5 1640.4199 0.9321  
3000 3 3280.8399 1.8641 Steeplechase
5000 5 5468.0665 3.1069  
10,000 10 10,936.1330 6.2137  
20,000 20 21,872.2660 12.4274 Walk
42,915 42.915 46,932.4147 26.6661 Marathon
50,000 50 54,680.6649 31.0686 Walk

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Sport Conversion