Events worldwide

All major events throughout the world

IAAF World records

The Men

 

Holder

World Record

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

The Women

  Holder World Record
100m Marion Jones (US) 10.82 Florence Griffith Joyner (US) 10.49 1988
100m hurdles Ludmila Fingquist (Swe) 12.50 Yordanka Oonkova (Bul) 12.21 1988
200m Zhanna Pintusevich (Ukr) 22.32 Florence Griffith Joyner (US) 21.34 1988
400m Cathy Freeman (Australia) 49.77 Maria Koch (DDR) 47.60 1985
400m hurdles Nezha Bidouane (Mor) 52.97 Kim Batten (US) 52.61 1995
800m Ana Quiroi (Cuba) 1.57.14 Jarmila Kratochilova (Cz) 1.53.28 1983
1500m Carla Sacramento (Por) 4.04.24 Yunxia Qu (China) 3.50.46 1993
4 x 100m United States 41.47 East Germany 41.37 1985
4 x 400m Germany 3.20.92 Soviet Union 3.15.17 1988
20km walk Debut event none
5000m Gabriela Szabo (Rom) 14.57.68 Bo Jiang (China) 14.28.09 1997
10,000m Sally Barsosio (Kenya) 31.32.92 Junxia Wang (Ch) 29.31.78
Javelin Trine Hattestad (Nor) 68.87 Hattestad 68.19 1999
Heptathalon Sabine Braun (Ger) 6739 points Jackie Joyner Kersee (US) 7291 points
Marathon Hiromi Suzuki (Jap) 2.29.48 Tegla Loroupe (Kenya) 2.22.48
Shot put Astrid Kumbernuss (Ger) 20.71 Natalya Lisovskaya (USSR) 22.63 1987
Hammer Debut event Michaela Melinte (Rom) 75.97 1999
High jump Hanna Haugland (Nor) 1.99 Stefka Kostadinova (Bul) 2.09 1987
Pole vault Debut event Emma George (Australia) 4.60 1999

Long jump

Lyudmila Galkina (Rus) 7.05 Galina Chistyakova (USSR) 7.52 1988
Triple jump Sarka Kasparkova (Cz) 15.20 Innessa Kravets (Ukr) 15.50 1995