[OC] World Record velocity for Long Track Speed Skating, Running, and Swimming by Distance

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[OC] World Record velocity for Long Track Speed Skating, Running, and Swimming by Distance

February 21, 2026

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_athletics, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_speed_skating, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_swimming

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Splinterfight on February 22, 2026 2:27 am

Cool, could use more tick mark labels on the Y axis.
trunningx on February 22, 2026 3:39 am

I knew running performance increases slightly from 100m to 200m, didn’t realize same was true for skating between 500m and 1000m. Interesting.