Sentence examples for lowered the mark from inspiring English sources

That lowered the mark Sebastian Vettel had set in his Ferrari, which was already lower than the previous quickest time in Melbourne, which Vettel set in 2011.

Powell lowered the mark by three-hundredths of a second, having recorded a time of 9.77 three times despite never winning a major competition.

A countryman, Liu Xiang, is the defending Olympic champion and was the world-record holder until Dayron Robles of Cuba lowered the mark earlier this month.

Paula Radcliffe of Britain broke it Oct. 13, 2002, in 2 17:18 and has since lowered the mark to 2 15:25, but she is not competing in New York.

Nico Rosberg vaulted to the top of the order with a 1 37.841, but team-mate Lewis Hamilton has just lowered the mark again with a lap two tenths quicker.

who was the biggest name in Jamaican sprinting before the rise of double world and Olympic champion Usain Bolt, broke the world record in the 100m when he ran 9.77 seconds in 2005, then lowered the mark to 9.74 in 2008.

It appears that in order to maintain a semblance of consistency between this year's results and last year's, the exam boards deliberately lowered the marks of top students.

Samuelson, 51, clocked 10 minutes 22.69 seconds at the USA Masters Indoor Track & Field Championships in Landover, Md., lowering the mark of 10 23.84.

Dalpiaz's two-mile time yesterday was a New York indoor record, lowering the mark of 9 02.60 set by John Trautmann of Monroe-Woodbury in 1986.

On Saturday, Cameron Burrell will run 100 meters against other top high school sprinters at the New York Grand Prix on Randalls Island, where his father set a world record of 9.90 seconds in 1991 (later lowering the mark to 9.85 in 1994 in Lausanne, Switzerland).

The defending champion set a new Paralympic record of 1 41.09 in qualifying for the evening final, but then saw Great Britain team-mate Charlotte Henshaw lower the mark to 1 39.64 in the second heat.