Sentence examples for metres setting from inspiring English sources

Less than a month earlier, she had won the national title in the 400 metres, setting an Ethiopian record, and was now to compete in the US.

At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, she pushed the pace again in the 10,000 metres, setting up an Olympic record for winner Derartu Tulu of Ethiopia but finishing fourth herself.

With the Knights having snatched the lead minutes earlier, the Warriors found themselves on the attack late in the match before Gagai scrambled out of the defensive line to pluck the ball from the air and run 70 metres, setting up Robbie Rochow to score the match winner just a few plays later.

Jackson won another gold medal in the 200 metres, setting a world record, and competed for the Australian 4 × 100-metre relay team that set a world record (46.1 seconds) in its first heat at Helsinki; the team led in the final race until a teammate accidentally knocked the baton from Jackson's hand.

The 21-year-old from Bridgend saw off the challenge of Iranian discus rival Mehrdad Karam Zadeh at the Olympic Stadium with a best throw of 46.14 metres, setting a new European record in the process.

Aoki's pitch to 5 feet (1.5 metres) set up a certain birdie on 17.

In 2004, an Oregon boy named Galen Rupp finally broke the high-school record in the five thousand metres, set by Gerry Lindgren, in 1964.

The people who run London's parks are stuck with a large and costly object not of their choosing; the committee responsible for the fountain is nowhere to be seen.Designed by Kathryn Gustafson, an American architect, at a cost of £3.6m ($6.6m), the memorial is an oval stone channel with a circumference of about 200 metres, set in a sloping, expensively landscaped site.

However, in the summer the record is 137.0 metres, set by Poland's Kamil Stoch in 2011.

The hill record in the large hill is 134.0 metres, set by Germany's Jörg Ritzerfeld in 2002.

Several days after Bolt broke the world records in 100 and 200 metres events, Mike Powell, the world record holder in long jump (8.95 metres set in 1991) argued that Bolt could become the first man to jump over 9 metres, the long jump event being "a perfect fit for his speed and height".