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'World records in athletics (track and field)' are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Records are kept for all events contested at the Olympic Games and some others. Unofficial records for some other events are kept by track and field statisticians. The only non-metric distance for which official records are kept is the mile run.

Contents

Ratification

Bonus payments

Outdoor world records

Men

Women

Indoor world records

Men

Women

Notes

See also

External links

Statistics

Rules

Ratification

The criteria which must be satisfied for ratification also apply to national or other restricted records and also to performances submitted as qualifying marks for eligibility to compete in major events such as the Olympic Games.
The criteria include:

★ The dimensions of the track and equipment used must conform to standards.

★ Performance must be set in a single-sex race. This is especially noteworthy in marathon races.

★ All team members in a relay race must be of the same nationality.

★ Pacemakers are allowed, provided they have not been lapped; lapped athletes must give way.

★ Drug testing immediately after the performance is now required for ratification of a record. Existing records which predate this requirement are still extant. Athletes who pass the immediate test but are later found to have been on drugs have their performances invalidated.

★ In sprint events up to 200 m and in jump events, wind assistance is permitted only up to 2.0 m/s. In decathlon or heptathlon, average wind assistance of less than 2.0 m/s is required across all applicable disciplines; and maximum of 4.0 m/s in any one event.

★ In sprint events up to 400 m, photo finish electronic timing is required.

★ There is no restriction on altitude; since the thinner atmosphere of higher altitude provides less air resistance, locations such as Mexico City and Sestriere are popular in the sprint and jump events.

★ In road events (e.g. walks and marathon) the course is not required to be a circuit, but must not have too great a downhill gradient.

Bonus payments

Witnessing a world record being a great pleasure for athletics fans, athletes' personal sponsors and the promoters of major meetings such as the IAAF Golden League have offered bonuses to athletes breaking a record.
Some middle-distance runners have specialized in acting as pacemakers in longer races, receiving a fee without even finishing the race, and possibly a bonus if a record results. This is a useful occupation for athletes who are capable of running accurately to a specified pace, but not capable of the very fastest times to become champions in their own right.
In the pole vault (and potentially the high jump) record bonuses create an incentive for an athlete capable of smashing a record to instead break it by the minimum amount (one centimetre), multiple times, at multiple meetings, in order to accumulate multiple bonuses. This has been done by Sergei Bubka in the men's pole vault, and Yelena Isinbayeva in the women's pole vault. Some commentators have complained that neither athlete ever posted as high a mark as they were capable of. In other disciplines this perverse incentive does not arise, since it is practically impossible to deliberately break a record by a small margin.

Outdoor world records

Men

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place
100 m	9.74 s	Asafa Powell		September 9, 2007	Rieti, Italy
200 m	19.32 s	Michael Johnson		August 1, 1996	Atlanta, GA, USA
400 m	43.18 s	Michael Johnson		August 26, 1999	Seville, Spain
800 m	1:41.11	Wilson Kipketer		August 24, 1997	Cologne, Germany
1000 m	2:11.96	Noah Ngeny		September 5, 1999	Rieti, Italy
1500 m	3:26.00	Hicham El Guerrouj		July 14, 1998	Rome, Italy
Mile	3:43.13	Hicham El Guerrouj		July 7, 1999	Rome, Italy
2000 m	4:44.79	Hicham El Guerrouj		September 7, 1999	Berlin, Germany
3000 m	7:20.67	Daniel Komen		September 1, 1996	Rieti, Italy
Two miles	7:58.61	Daniel Komen		July 19, 1997	Hechtel, Belgium
5000 m	12:37.35	Kenenisa Bekele		May 31, 2004	Hengelo, Netherlands
10,000 m	26:17.53	Kenenisa Bekele		August 26, 2005	Brussels, Belgium
20,000 m (track)	56:26.0	Haile Gebrselassie		June 27, 2007	Ostrava, Czech Republic
Half marathon (road)	58:33	Samuel Wanjiru		March 17, 2007	The Hague, Netherlands
One hour (track)	21.285 km	Haile Gebrselassie		June 27, 2007	Ostrava, Czech Republic
25,000 m (road)	1:11:37	Haile Gebrselassie		March 12, 2006	Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands
30,000 m (track)	1:29:18.8	Toshihiko Seko		March 22, 1981	Christchurch, New Zealand
Marathon	2:04:55	Paul Tergat		September 28, 2003	Berlin, Germany
3000 m steeplechase	7:53.63	Saif Saaeed Shaheen (born Stephen Cherono, Kenya)		September 3, 2004	Brussels, Belgium
110 m hurdles	12.88 s	Liu Xiang		July 11, 2006	Lausanne, Switzerland
400 m hurdles	46.78 s	Kevin Young		August 6, 1992	Barcelona, Spain
High jump	2.45 m	Javier Sotomayor		July 27, 1993	Salamanca, Spain
Pole vault	6.14 m	Sergei Bubka		July 31, 1994	Sestriere, Italy
Long jump	8.95 m	Mike Powell		August 30, 1991	Tokyo, Japan
Triple jump	18.29 m	Jonathan Edwards		August 7, 1995	Göteborg, Sweden
Shot put	23.12 m	Randy Barnes		May 20, 1990	Westwood, USA
Discus	74.08 m	Jürgen Schult		June 6, 1986	Neubrandenburg, Germany
Hammer	86.74 m	Yuriy Sedykh		August 30, 1986	Stuttgart, Germany
Javelin	98.48 m (Current design)	Jan Železný		May 25, 1996	Jena, Germany
	104.80 m (old design)	Uwe Hohn		20 July, 1984	Berlin, Germany
Decathlon	9026 pts	Roman Šebrle		May 27, 2001	Götzis, Austria
	10.64 s ''(100 m)'', 8.11 m ''(long jump)'', 15.33 m ''(shot put)'', 2.12 m ''(high jump)'', 47.79 s ''(400'' m'')'', 13.92 s ''(110 m hurdles)'', 47.92 m ''(discus)'', 4.80 m ''(pole vault)'', 70.16 m ''(javelin)'', 4:21.98 min ''(1500 m)''
20 km walk (road)	1:17:21	Jefferson Pérez		August 23, 2003	Paris, France
30000 m walk (track)	2:01:44.1	Maurizio Damilano		October 3, 1992	Cuneo, Italy
50000 m walk (track)	3:40:57.9	Thierry Toutain		September 29, 1996	Héricourt, France
50 km walk (road)	3:35:47	Nathan Deakes		December 6, 2006	Geelong, Australia
4x100 m relay	37.40 s	Mike Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Dennis Mitchell, Carl Lewis Jon Drummond, Andre Cason, Dennis Mitchell, Leroy Burrell		August 8, 1992 August 21, 1993	Barcelona, Spain Stuttgart, Germany
4x200 m relay	1:18.68	Mike Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Floyd Heard, Carl Lewis		April 17, 1994	Walnut, USA
4x400 m relay	2:54.20	Jerome Young, Antonio Pettigrew, Tyree Washington, Michael Johnson		July 22, 1998	New York City, USA
4x800 m relay	7:02.43	Joseph Mutua, William Yiampoy, Ismael Kombich, Wilfred Bungei		August 25, 2006	Brussels, Belgium
4x1500 m relay	14:38.8	Thomas Wessinghage, Harald Hudak, Michael Lederer, Karl Fleschen		August 17, 1977	Cologne, Germany

Women

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place
100 m	10.49 s	Florence Griffith Joyner		July 16, 1988	Indianapolis, USA
200 m	21.34 s	Florence Griffith Joyner		September 29, 1988	Seoul, S. Korea
400 m	47.60	Marita Koch		October 6, 1985	Canberra, Australia
800 m	1:53.28	Jarmila Kratochvílová	Czechoslovakia	July 26, 1983	Munich, Germany
1000 m	2:28.98	Svetlana Masterkova		August 23, 1996	Brussels, Belgium
1500 m	3:50.46	Qu Yunxia		September 11, 1993	Beijing, China
Mile	4:12.56	Svetlana Masterkova		August 14, 1996	Zürich, Switzerland
2000 m	5:25.36	Sonia O'Sullivan		July 8, 1994	Edinburgh, Scotland
3000 m	8:06.11	Wang Junxia		September 13, 1993	Beijing, China
5000 m	14:16.63	Meseret Defar		June 15, 2007	Oslo, Norway
10,000 m	29:31.78	Wang Junxia		September 8, 1993	Beijing, China
One hour	18.340 km	Tegla Loroupe		August 7, 1998	Borgholzhausen, Germany
20,000 m	1:05:26.6	Tegla Loroupe		September 3, 2000	Borgholzhausen, Germany
Half Marathon	1:06:44	Elana Meyer		January 15, 1999	Tokyo, Japan
25,000 m	1:27:05.8	Tegla Loroupe		September 21, 2002	Mengerskirchen, Germany
30,000 m	1:45:50.0	Tegla Loroupe		June 7, 2003	Warstein, Germany
Marathon	2:15:25	Paula Radcliffe		April 13, 2003	London, England, UK
3000 m steeplechase	9:01.59	Gulnara Samitova,		July 4, 2004	Heraklion, Greece
100 m hurdles	12.21 s	Yordanka Donkova		August 20, 1988	Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
400 m hurdles	52.34 s	Yuliya Pechonkina		August 8, 2003	Tula, Russia
High jump	2.09 m	Stefka Kostadinova		August 30, 1987	Rome, Italy
Pole vault	5.01 m	Yelena Isinbayeva		August 12, 2005	Helsinki, Finland
Long jump	7.52 m	Galina Chistyakova		June 11, 1988	Leningrad, USSR
Triple jump	15.50	Inessa Kravets		August 10, 1995	Göteborg, Sweden
Shot put	22.63	Natalya Lisovskaya		June 7, 1987	Moscow, USSR
Discus	76.80	Gabriele Reinsch		July 9, 1988	Neubrandenburg, Germany
Hammer throw	78.61 m[1]	Tatyana Lysenko		May 26, 2007	Sochi, Russia
Javelin[2]	71.70 m (Current design)	Osleidys Menéndez		August 14, 2005	Helsinki, Finland
	80.00 m (old design)	Petra Felke		September 9, 1988	Potsdam, Germany
Heptathlon	7291 pts	Jackie Joyner-Kersee		September 24, 1988	Seoul, S. Korea
	12.69 s ''(100 m hurdles)'', 1.86 m ''(high jump)'', 15.80 m ''(shot put)'', 22.56 s ''(200 m)'', 7.27 m ''(long jump)'', 45.66 m ''(javelin)'', 2:08.51 ''(800 m)''
Decathlon	8358 pts	Austra Skujytė		14 April, 2005 – 15 April, 2005	Columbia, USA
	12.49 s ''(100 m)'', 46.19 m ''(discus)'', 3.10 m ''(pole vault)'', 48.78 m ''(javelin)'', 57.19 s ''(400 m)'', 14.22 s ''(100 m hurdles)'', 6.12 m ''(long jump)'', 16.42 m ''(shot put)'', 1.78 m ''(high jump)'', 5:15.86 ''(1500 m)''
5000 m walk (track)	20:02.60	Gillian O'Sullivan		July 13, 2002	Dublin, Ireland
10000 m walk (track)	41:56.23	Nadezhda Ryashkina		July 24, 1990	Seattle, USA
20000 m walk (track)	1:26:52.3	Olimpiada Ivanova		September 6, 2001	Brisbane, Australia
20 km walk (road)	1:25:41	Olimpiada Ivanova		August 7, 2005	Helsinki, Finland
4x100 m relay	41.37	Silke Gladisch, Sabine Rieger, Ingrid Auerswald, Marlies Göhr		October 6, 1985	Canberra, Australia
4x200 m relay	1:27.46	LaTasha Jenkins, LaTasha Colander-Richardson, Nanceen Perry, Marion Jones		April 29, 2000	Philadelphia, USA
4x400 m relay	3:15.17	Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina, Olga Bryzgina		October 1, 1988	Seoul, S. Korea
4x800 m relay	7:50.17	Nadezhda Olizarenko, Lyubov Gurina, Lyudmila Borisova, Irina Podyalovskaya		August 5, 1984	Moscow, USSR

Indoor world records

Men

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place
50 m	5.56 s	Donovan Bailey		February 9, 1996	Reno, USA
60 m	6.39 s	Maurice Greene		February 3, 1998 March 3, 2001	Madrid, Spain Atlanta, USA
200 m	19.92 s	Frankie Fredericks		18 February, 1996	Liévin, France
400 m	44.57 s	Kerron Clement		12 March, 2005	Fayetteville, USA
800 m	1:42.67	Wilson Kipketer		9 March, 1997	Paris-Bercy, France
1000 m	2:14.96	Wilson Kipketer		20 February, 2000	Birmingham, England
1500 m	3:31.18	Hicham El Guerrouj		2 February, 1997	Stuttgart, Germany
Mile	3:48.45	Hicham El Guerrouj		12 February, 1997	Gent, Belgium
2000 m	4:49.99	Kenenisa Bekele		17 February, 2007	Birmingham, England
3000 m	7:24.90	Daniel Komen		6 February, 1998	Budapest, Hungary
2 miles	8:04.69	Haile Gebrselassie		21 February, 2003	Birmingham, England
5000 m	12:49.60	Kenenisa Bekele		20 February, 2004	Birmingham, England
50 m hurdles	6.25 s	Mark McKoy		5 March, 1986	Kobe, Japan
60 m hurdles	7.30 s	Colin Jackson		6 March, 1994	Sindelfingen, Germany
High jump	2.43 m	Javier Sotomayor		4 March, 1989	Budapest, Hungary
Pole vault	6.15 m	Sergei Bubka		21 February, 1993	Donetsk, Ukraine
Long jump	8.79 m	Carl Lewis		27 January, 1984	New York City, USA
Triple jump	17.83 m	Aliecer Urrutia Christian Olsson		1 March, 1997 7 March, 2004	Sindelfingen, Germany Budapest, Hungary
Shot put	22.66 m	Randy Barnes		20 January, 1989	Los Angeles, USA
Heptathlon	6476 pts	Dan O'Brien		13 March, 1993	Toronto, Canada
	6.67 s ''(60 m)'', 7.84 m ''(long jump)'', 16.02 m ''(shot put)'', 2.13 m ''(high jump)'', 5.20 m ''(pole vault)'', 2:57.96 min ''(1000 m)''
5000 m walk (track)	18:07.08	Mikhail Shchennikov		14 February, 1995	Moscow, Russia
4x200 m relay	1:22.11	Linford Christie, Darren Braithwaite, Ade Mafe, John Regis		3 March, 1991	Glasgow, Scotland
4x400 m relay	3:02.83	Andre Morris, Dameon Johnson, Deon Minor, Milton Campbell		7 March, 1999	Maebashi, Japan
4x800 m relay	7:13.94	(Global Athletics & Marketing) Joey Woody, Karl Paranya, Rich Kenah, David Krummenacker	-	6 February, 2000	Boston, USA

Women

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place
50 m	5.96 s	Irina Privalova		February 9, 1995	Madrid, Spain
60 m	6.92 s	Irina Privalova		February 11, 1993 February 9, 1995	Madrid, Spain Madrid, Spain
200 m	21.87 s	Merlene Ottey		13 February, 1993	Liévin, France
400 m	49.59 s	Jarmila Kratochvílová		7 March, 1982	Milan, Italy
800 m	1:55.82	Jolanda Čeplak		3 March, 2002	Vienna, Austria
1000 m	2:30.94	Maria Mutola		25 February, 1999	Stockholm, Sweden
1500 m	3:58.28	Yelena Soboleva		18 February, 2006	Moscow, Russia
Mile	4:17.14	Doina Melinte		9 February, 1990	East Rutherford, USA
3000 m	8:23.72	Meseret Defar		3 February, 2007	Stuttgart, Germany
5000 m	14:27.42	Tirunesh Dibaba		27 January, 2007	Boston, USA
50 m hurdles	6.58 s	Cornelia Oschkenat		20 February, 1988	Berlin, Germany
60 m hurdles	7.69 s	Ludmila Narozhilenko		4 February, 1990	Chelyabinsk, USSR
High jump	2.08 m	Kajsa Bergqvist		4 February, 2006	Arnstadt, Germany
Pole vault	4.91 m	Yelena Isinbayeva		12 February, 2006	Donetsk, Ukraine
Long jump	7.37 m	Heike Drechsler		13 February, 1988	Vienna, Austria
Triple jump	15.36 m	Tatyana Lebedeva		6 March, 2004	Budapest, Hungary
Shot put	22.50 m	Helena Fibingerová		19 February, 1977	Jablonec, Czechoslovakia
Pentathlon	4991 pts	Irina Belova		15 February, 1992	Berlin, Germany
	8.22 s ''(60 m hurdles)'', 1.93 m ''(high jump)'', 13.25 m ''(shot put)'', 6.67 m ''(long jump)'', 2:10.26 min ''(800 m)''
3000 m walk (track)	11:40.33	Claudia Stef		30 January, 1999	Bucharest, Romania
4x200 m relay	1:32.41	Yekaterina Kondratyeva, Irina Khabarova, Yuliya Pechonkina, Yuliya Gushchina		29 January, 2005	Glasgow, Scotland
4x400 m relay	3:23.37	Yuliya Gushchina, Olga Kotlyarova, Olga Zaytseva, Olesya Krasnomovets		28 January, 2006	Glasgow, Scotland
4x800 m relay	8:18.71	Olga Kuznetsova, Yelena Afanasyeva, Yelena Zaytseva, Yekaterina Podkopayeva		4 February, 1994	Moscow, Russia

Notes

1. Pending usual ratification by IAAF.
2. As with the men's event, the specification of the women's javelin has been changed. On April 1, 1999 the IAAF moved the centre of gravity forward by 3 cm in order to ensure a greater number of legal throws and to allow for more accurate distance measurement.

See also

★ Association of Track and Field Statisticians

★ World Record progression 100 m men

★ World Record progression 100 m women

★ World record progression for the mile run

★ World record progression for the Men's 10,000 m

★ World Record progression Pole Vault men

★ World Record progression Pole Vault women

★ European records in athletics

External links

Statistics

★ Records overview - IAAF

★ Official world outdoor records - men - IAAF

★ Official world outdoor records - women - IAAF

★ Official world indoor records - men - IAAF

★ Official world indoor records - women - IAAF

★ World Record progression in athletics - athletix.org

★ Track and Field all-time performances

★ World Records for Masters - mastersathletics.net

★ World Records and World Best Performances in standard and nonstandard distances/events

Rules

★ Competition rules - IAAF (PDF file, 829 kilobytes)