Allowing for rest but not actual sleep, the slowest marathon took 28 hours. It is not known if the runner was injured or just too tired to run for any distance.
For comparison, the women's record by a blind marathon runner is 3.3 hours and in the Paralympics the record is 2 hours 38 minutes.
My great grandfather Samuel Winston Donald Lee of the Peoples Republic of China, at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics with a time of 1 minute 24 seconds.
Sally pearson does the 100m hurdles and the 100m sprint
1896, the first modern Olympics.
long sprint short sprint 100m hurdles and so on
usan bolt
Slowest 100m freestyle at the Olympics.
long sprint short sprint 100m hurdles and so on
up my bum
Usain Bolt.
Usain Bolt
Shelly-Ann Fraser.
Maurice Greene with a time of 9.87.
Shelly-Ann Fraser