Sentence examples for by almost three seconds from inspiring English sources

"We knew the record was on the cards but to break it by almost three seconds is amazing".

With a time of 1 02.62, Aitken ranked first in her heat, defeating Baez by almost three seconds.

Brooks then won gold as part of the winning 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, anchoring the team of Fasala, Delany and Graeme Brewer to a victory by almost three seconds, putting in a split of 50.56 s.

In August 1966, she set a new American record of 2 44.8 in the 200-meter breaststroke at the AAU national championships, shattering the previous mark by almost three seconds.

Grevers won by almost two seconds.

Lagat's 13 minutes 11.50 seconds set the mark by almost seven seconds.

The Australians, however, smashed the world record by almost six seconds, the 18th world record to fall in the Water Cube in less than six days.

In a sport where tenths, even hundreths, of a second often separate the top few finishers, Teuscher won the freestyle race by better than two seconds and the medley by almost four seconds.

He ran the same race a year later and improved his pace by almost forty seconds per mile, and a year after that he whittled off fourteen more seconds, to a respectable six minutes and thirty-five seconds per mile.

The 35-year-old former dentist was denied top spot on the podium for a third time as Sarah Hammer of the United States clocked 3 minutes 28.601 seconds to win by almost four seconds.

At the 2000 United States Olympic trials, she was one of the favorites in the 200 I.M. and finished fourth, missing a spot on the team by almost two seconds.