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The Men

	Holder	World Record	Ought to win
100m	Maurice Greene (US) 9.86	Maurice Greene (US) 9.79 1999	Greene (US)
110m hurdles	Allen Johnson (US) 12.93	Colin Jackson (GB) 12.91 1993	Mark Crear (US)
200m	Ato Boldon (Trinidad) 20.04	Michael Johnson (US) 19.32 1996	Frankie Fredericks (Namibia)
400m	Michael Johnson (US) 44.12	Butch Reynolds (US) 43.29 1988	Johnson (US)
400m hurdles	Stephane Diagana (Fr) 47.70	Kevin Young (US) 46.78 1992	Lewellyn Herbert (SA)
800m	Wilson Kipketer (Den) 1.43.38	Kipketer 1.41.11 1997	Kipketer
1500m	Hicham El Guerrouj (Mor) 3.35.83	El Guerrouj 3.26.00 1998	El Guerrouj
4 x 100m	Canada 37.86	United States 37.40 1992 & 1993	Britain
4 x 400m	United States 2.56.47	US 2.54.20 1998	US
3000m steeplechase	Wilson Boit Kipketer (Kenya) 8.05.84	Bernard Barmasai (Kenya) 7.55.72 1997	Barmasai
5000m	Daniel Komen (Kenya) 13.07.38	Haile Gebrselassie (Eth) 12.39.36 1998	Komen
10,000m	Haile Gebrselassie (Eth) 27.24.58	Gebrselassie 26.22.75 1998	Gebrselassie "The Emperor"
20km walk	Daniel Garcia (Mexico) 1.21.43	none	Julio Rena Martinez (Guatemala)
50km walk	Robert Korzeniowski (Pol) 3.44.46	none	Korzeniowski
Marathon	Abel Anton (Sp) 2.13.16	Gert Thys (SA) 2.06.33	Thys
Shot put	John Godina (US) 21.44	Randy Barnes (US) 23.12 1990	Godina
Hammer	Heinz Weiss (Ger) 81.78	Yuriy Sedykh (Russ) 86.74 1986	Tibor Gecsek (Hungary)
High jump	Javier Sotomayor (Cuba) 2.37	Sotomayor 2.45 1993	Steve Smith (GB)
Pole vault	Sergey Bubka (Ukr) 6.01	Bubka 6.14 1994	Maksim Tarasov (Russia)
Long jump	Ivan Pedroso (Cuba) 8.42	Mike Powell (US) 8.95 1991	Pedroso
Triple jump	Yoelbi Quesada (Cuba) 17.85	Jonathan Edwards (GB) 18.29 1995	Edwards
Javelin	Marius Corbett (SA) 88.40	Jan Zelezny (Cz) 98.48 1996	Aki Parviainen (Fin)
Discus	Lars Riedel (Germ) 68.54	Jurgen Schult (DDR) 74.08 1986	Riedel
Decathalon	Tomas Dvorak (Cz) 8837 points	Dvorak 8994 points 1999	Dvorak

The Women

	Holder	World Record	Ought to win
100m	Marion Jones (US) 10.82	Florence Griffith Joyner (US) 10.49 1988	Jones (US)
100m hurdles	Ludmila Fingquist (Swe) 12.50	Yordanka Oonkova (Bul) 12.21 1988	Olga Shishigina (Kaz)
200m	Zhanna Pintusevich (Ukr) 22.32	Florence Griffith Joyner (US) 21.34 1988	Jones (US)
400m	Cathy Freeman (Australia) 49.77	Maria Koch (DDR) 47.60 1985	Freeman
400m hurdles	Nezha Bidouane (Mor) 52.97	Kim Batten (US) 52.61 1995	Deon Hemmings (Jam)
800m	Ana Quiroi (Cuba) 1.57.14	Jarmila Kratochilova (Cz) 1.53.28 1983	Maria Mutola (Mozam)
1500m	Carla Sacramento (Por) 4.04.24	Yunxia Qu (China) 3.50.46 1993	Beclea Szekely (Rom)
4 x 100m	United States 41.47	East Germany 41.37 1985	US
4 x 400m	Germany 3.20.92	Soviet Union 3.15.17 1988	Russia
20km walk	Debut event	none	Nadezhda Ryashikina (Rus)
5000m	Gabriela Szabo (Rom) 14.57.68	Bo Jiang (China) 14.28.09 1997	Szabo
10,000m	Sally Barsosio (Kenya) 31.32.92	Junxia Wang (Ch) 29.31.78	Paula Radcliffe (GB)
Javelin	Trine Hattestad (Nor) 68.87	Hattestad 68.19 1999	Hattestad
Heptathalon	Sabine Braun (Ger) 6739 points	Jackie Joyner Kersee (US) 7291 points	Denise Lewis (GB)
Marathon	Hiromi Suzuki (Jap) 2.29.48	Tegla Loroupe (Kenya) 2.22.48	Joyce Chepchumba (Kenya)
Shot put	Astrid Kumbernuss (Ger) 20.71	Natalya Lisovskaya (USSR) 22.63 1987	Svetlana Krivelyova (Rus)
Hammer	Debut event	Michaela Melinte (Rom) 75.97 1999	Melinte
High jump	Hanna Haugland (Nor) 1.99	Stefka Kostadinova (Bul) 2.09 1987	Hestrie Storbeck-Cloete (SA) 2.01
Pole vault	Debut event	Emma George (Australia) 4.60 1999	George
Long jump	Lyudmila Galkina (Rus) 7.05	Galina Chistyakova (USSR) 7.52 1988	Marion Jones (US)
Triple jump	Sarka Kasparkova (Cz) 15.20	Innessa Kravets (Ukr) 15.50 1995	Tatyana Lebedeva (Rus)

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