Michael Graham 48.1, Mike Marsh 47.7, Sean Kelly 47.1, Henry Thomas 44.5 Ireon Brown, Kary Vincent, Xavier Hall, Deandre AngelleĮthan Bonner, Jake Lainer, DeAngelo Alexander, Kesean Carter Milton Wesley, Monte Clopton, Michael Franklin, DeMario Wesley Pan American Junior Athletics ChampionshipsĢ002 World Junior Championships in Athletics Philadelphia Catholic League Championships NFHS record NFHS recognized record in legacy events Awaiting NFHS ratification Track and Field News record Awaiting Track and Field News publication, ratification not NFHS eligible or T&FN recognized event/mark Boys Event On this list, marks listed as the NFHS record with no other marks listed for that event, are the universally accepted record in the current official events. Invitational meets have offered an assortment of legacy events and an array of relays, which allow each new generation of athlete a legitimate opportunity to compete in all these events, effectively keeping all records relevant and contemporary. Over time, this has resulted in statisticians collecting results and performing conversions as athletes have run different distances, jumped different hurdles and thrown different weights. Some states throw javelin or hammer, while the majority do not. In field events, boys throw different weights of their implements than with international open division or the more comparable junior-division implements. Some states ran over lower hurdle heights for a period of time. For the long-hurdle race, they run 300 meters instead of the 400 metres hurdles. For the two- mile run, they run 3200 meters. For example, in 1980, high schools converted their running distances from Imperial (yards) to metric, but instead of running conventional international distances like 1500 metres in place of the mile run, a more equitable but non-standard 1600 meters was chosen. Since there are no national championships in high-school competition, post-state-championship meets that proclaim such a position are not sanctioned by the NFHS and thus fall only under the T&FN guidelines.Īdditionally, high-school competition is conducted under slightly different rules, which have evolved over time. These records include marks made in open competition against higher-level competitors, post-season meets and international competition up until August 31 following their high-school graduation. Track and Field News (T&FN) has tracked records by any American high school students, in any competition until they enter college. Those would be scholastic dual meets, high-school-only invitationals and championship meets up through the individual state championships. The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) compiles records based only upon competitions its state affiliates sanction. While these records have been compiled for over 100 years, there are varying standards for these records. The list of United States high-school national records in track and field is separated by indoor and outdoor and boys and girls who have set a national record in their respective events.

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