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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 1 Ratification 2 Bonus payments 3 Outdoor world records 3.1 Men 3.2 Women 4 Indoor world records 4.1 Men 4.2 Women 5 Notes 6 See also 7 External links 7.1 Statistics 7.2 Rules

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 fully automatic 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.

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.

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place
100 m	9.74 s	Asafa Powell	Jamaica	September 9, 2007	Rieti, Italy
200 m	19.32 s	Michael Johnson	United States	August 1, 1996	Atlanta, GA, USA
400 m	43.18 s	Michael Johnson	United States	August 26, 1999	Seville, Spain
800 m	1:41.11	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	August 24, 1997	Cologne, Germany
1000 m	2:11.96	Noah Ngeny	Kenya	September 5, 1999	Rieti, Italy
1500 m	3:26.00	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	July 14, 1998	Rome, Italy
Mile	3:43.13	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	July 7, 1999	Rome, Italy
2000 m	4:44.79	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	September 7, 1999	Berlin, Germany
3000 m	7:20.67	Daniel Komen	Kenya	September 1, 1996	Rieti, Italy
Two miles	7:58.61	Daniel Komen	Kenya	July 19, 1997	Hechtel, Belgium
5000 m	12:37.35	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	May 31, 2004	Hengelo, Netherlands
10,000 m	26:17.53	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	August 26, 2005	Brussels, Belgium
10 kilometres (road)	27:02	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	December 11, 2002	Doha, Qatar
15 kilometres (road)	41:29	Felix Limo	Kenya	November 11, 2001	Nijmegen, Netherlands
20,000 m	56:26.0	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	June 27, 2007	Ostrava, Czech Republic
20 kilometres (road)	55:48	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	January 15, 2006	Phoenix, AZ, USA
Half marathon (road)	58:33	Samuel Kamau Wanjiru	Kenya	March 17, 2007	The Hague, Netherlands
One hour (track)	21.285 km	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	June 27, 2007	Ostrava, Czech Republic
25,000 m	1:13:55.8	Toshihiko Seko	Japan	March 22, 1981	Christchurch, New Zealand
25 kilometres (road)	1:12:45	Paul Malakwen Kosgei	Kenya	May 9, 2006	Berlin, Germany
30,000 m	1:29:18.8	Toshihiko Seko	Japan	March 22, 1981	Christchurch, New Zealand
Marathon	2:04:26	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	September 30, 2007	Berlin, Germany
100 kilometres (road)	6:13:33	Takahiro Sunada	Japan	June 21, 1998	Tokoro, Japan
3000 m steeplechase	7:53.63	Saif Saaeed Shaheen (born Stephen Cherono, Kenya)	Qatar	September 3, 2004	Brussels, Belgium
110 m hurdles	12.88 s	Liu Xiang	China	July 11, 2006	Lausanne, Switzerland
400 m hurdles	46.78 s	Kevin Young	United States	August 6, 1992	Barcelona, Spain
High jump	2.45 m	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	July 27, 1993	Salamanca, Spain
Pole vault	6.14 m	Sergei Bubka	Ukraine	July 31, 1994	Sestriere, Italy
Long jump	8.95 m	Mike Powell	United States	August 30, 1991	Tokyo, Japan
Triple jump	18.29 m	Jonathan Edwards	United Kingdom	August 7, 1995	Göteborg, Sweden
Shot put	23.12 m	Randy Barnes	United States	May 20, 1990	Westwood, USA
Discus	74.08 m	Jürgen Schult	East Germany	June 6, 1986	Neubrandenburg, Germany
Hammer	86.74 m	Yuriy Sedykh	Soviet Union	August 30, 1986	Stuttgart, Germany
Javelin	98.48 m (Current design)	Jan Železný	Czech Republic	May 25, 1996	Jena, Germany
	104.80 m (old design)	Uwe Hohn	East Germany	20 July 1984	Berlin, Germany
Decathlon	9026 pts	Roman Šebrle	Czech Republic	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)	1:17:16	Vladimir Kanaykin	Russia	September 29, 2007	Saransk, Russia
30000 m walk (track)	2:01:44.1	Maurizio Damilano	Italy	October 3, 1992	Cuneo, Italy
50000 m walk (track)	3:40:57.9	Thierry Toutain	France	September 29, 1996	Héricourt, France
50 km walk (road)	3:35:47	Nathan Deakes	Australia	December 6, 2006	Geelong, Australia
4x100 m relay	37.40 s	United States Mike Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Dennis Mitchell, Carl Lewis  United States Jon Drummond, Andre Cason, Dennis Mitchell, Leroy Burrell	United States  United States	August 8, 1992 August 21, 1993	Barcelona, Spain Stuttgart, Germany
4x200 m relay	1:18.68	United States Mike Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Floyd Heard, Carl Lewis	United States	April 17, 1994	Walnut, USA
4x400 m relay	2:54.20	United States Jerome Young, Antonio Pettigrew, Tyree Washington, Michael Johnson	United States	July 22, 1998	New York City, USA
4x800 m relay	7:02.43	Kenya Joseph Mutua, William Yiampoy, Ismael Kombich, Wilfred Bungei	Kenya	August 25, 2006	Brussels, Belgium
4x1500 m relay	14:38.8	West Germany Thomas Wessinghage, Harald Hudak, Michael Lederer, Karl Fleschen	West Germany	August 17, 1977	Cologne, Germany

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place
100 m	10.49 s	Florence Griffith Joyner	United States	July 16, 1988	Indianapolis, USA
200 m	21.34 s	Florence Griffith Joyner	United States	September 29, 1988	Seoul, S. Korea
400 m	47.60	Marita Koch	East Germany	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	Russia	August 23, 1996	Brussels, Belgium
1500 m	3:50.46	Qu Yunxia	China	September 11, 1993	Beijing, China
Mile	4:12.56	Svetlana Masterkova	Russia	August 14, 1996	Zürich, Switzerland
2000 m	5:25.36	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	July 8, 1994	Edinburgh, Scotland
3000 m	8:06.11	Wang Junxia	China	September 13, 1993	Beijing, China
Two miles	8:58.58	Meseret Defar	Ethiopia	September 14, 2007	Brussels, Belgium
5000 m	14:16.63	Meseret Defar	Ethiopia	June 15, 2007	Oslo, Norway
10,000 m	29:31.78	Wang Junxia	China	September 8, 1993	Beijing, China
10 kilometres (road)	30:21	Paula Radcliffe	United Kingdom	February 23, 2003	San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA
15 kilometres (road)	46:55	Kayoko Fukushi	Japan	February 5, 2006	Marugame, Japan
One hour	18.340 km	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya	August 7, 1998	Borgholzhausen, Germany
20,000 m	1:05:26.6	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya	September 3, 2000	Borgholzhausen, Germany
20 kilometres (road)	1:02:57	Lornah Kiplagat	Netherlands	October 14, 2007	Udine, Italy
Half Marathon (road)	1:06:25	Lornah Kiplagat	Netherlands	October 14, 2007	Udine, Italy
25,000 m	1:27:05.9	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya	September 21, 2002	Mengerskirchen, Germany
25 kilometres (road)	1:22:13	Mizuki Noguchi	Japan	September 25, 2005	Berlin, Germany
30,000 m	1:45:50.0	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya	June 7, 2003	Warstein, Germany
30 kilometres (road)	1:38:49	Mizuki Noguchi	Japan	September 25, 2005	Berlin, Germany
Marathon	2:15:25	Paula Radcliffe	United Kingdom	April 13, 2003	London, England, UK
100 kilometres (road)	6:33:11	Tomoe Abe	Japan	June 25, 2000	Tokoro, Japan
3000 m steeplechase	9:01.59	Gulnara Samitova,	Russia	July 4, 2004	Heraklion, Greece
100 m hurdles	12.21 s	Yordanka Donkova	Bulgaria	August 20, 1988	Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
400 m hurdles	52.34 s	Yuliya Pechonkina	Russia	August 8, 2003	Tula, Russia
High jump	2.09 m	Stefka Kostadinova	Bulgaria	August 30, 1987	Rome, Italy
Pole vault	5.01 m	Yelena Isinbayeva	Russia	August 12, 2005	Helsinki, Finland
Long jump	7.52 m	Galina Chistyakova	Soviet Union	June 11, 1988	Leningrad, USSR
Triple jump	15.50	Inessa Kravets	Ukraine	August 10, 1995	Göteborg, Sweden
Shot put	22.63	Natalya Lisovskaya	Soviet Union	June 7, 1987	Moscow, USSR
Discus	76.80	Gabriele Reinsch	East Germany	July 9, 1988	Neubrandenburg, Germany
Hammer throw	78.61 m[1]	Tatyana Lysenko	Russia	May 26, 2007	Sochi, Russia
Javelin[2]	71.70 m (Current design)	Osleidys Menéndez	Cuba	August 14, 2005	Helsinki, Finland
	80.00 m (old design)	Petra Felke	East Germany	September 9, 1988	Potsdam, Germany
Heptathlon	7291 pts	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States	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	Lithuania	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	Ireland	July 13, 2002	Dublin, Ireland
10000 m walk (track)	41:56.23	Nadezhda Ryashkina	Soviet Union	July 24, 1990	Seattle, USA
20000 m walk (track)	1:26:52.3	Olimpiada Ivanova	Russia	September 6, 2001	Brisbane, Australia
20 km walk (road)	1:25:41	Olimpiada Ivanova	Russia	August 7, 2005	Helsinki, Finland
4x100 m relay	41.37	East Germany Silke Gladisch, Sabine Rieger, Ingrid Auerswald, Marlies Göhr	East Germany	October 6, 1985	Canberra, Australia
4x200 m relay	1:27.46	United States LaTasha Jenkins, LaTasha Colander-Richardson, Nanceen Perry, Marion Jones	United States	April 29, 2000	Philadelphia, USA
4x400 m relay	3:15.17	Soviet Union Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina, Olga Bryzgina	Soviet Union	October 1, 1988	Seoul, S. Korea
4x800 m relay	7:50.17	Soviet Union Nadezhda Olizarenko, Lyubov Gurina, Lyudmila Borisova, Irina Podyalovskaya	Soviet Union	August 5, 1984	Moscow, USSR

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place
50 m	5.56 s	Donovan Bailey	Canada	February 9, 1996	Reno, USA
60 m	6.39 s	Maurice Greene	United States	February 3, 1998 March 3, 2001	Madrid, Spain Atlanta, USA
200 m	19.92 s	Frankie Fredericks	Namibia	18 February 1996	Liévin, France
400 m	44.57 s	Kerron Clement	United States	12 March 2005	Fayetteville, USA
800 m	1:42.67	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	9 March 1997	Paris-Bercy, France
1000 m	2:14.96	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	20 February 2000	Birmingham, England
1500 m	3:31.18	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	2 February 1997	Stuttgart, Germany
Mile	3:48.45	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	12 February 1997	Gent, Belgium
2000 m	4:49.99	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	17 February 2007	Birmingham, England
3000 m	7:24.90	Daniel Komen	Kenya	6 February 1998	Budapest, Hungary
2 miles	8:04.69	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	21 February 2003	Birmingham, England
5000 m	12:49.60	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	20 February 2004	Birmingham, England
50 m hurdles	6.25 s	Mark McKoy	Canada	5 March 1986	Kobe, Japan
60 m hurdles	7.30 s	Colin Jackson	United Kingdom	6 March 1994	Sindelfingen, Germany
High jump	2.43 m	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	4 March 1989	Budapest, Hungary
Pole vault	6.15 m	Sergei Bubka	Ukraine	21 February 1993	Donetsk, Ukraine
Long jump	8.79 m	Carl Lewis	United States	27 January 1984	New York City, USA
Triple jump	17.83 m	Aliecer Urrutia Christian Olsson	Cuba  Sweden	1 March 1997 7 March 2004	Sindelfingen, Germany Budapest, Hungary
Shot put	22.66 m	Randy Barnes	United States	20 January 1989	Los Angeles, USA
Heptathlon	6476 pts	Dan O'Brien	United States	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	Russia	14 February 1995	Moscow, Russia
4x200 m relay	1:22.11	United Kingdom Linford Christie, Darren Braithwaite, Ade Mafe, John Regis	United Kingdom	3 March 1991	Glasgow, Scotland
4x400 m relay	3:02.83	United States Andre Morris, Dameon Johnson, Deon Minor, Milton Campbell	United States	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

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

• 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

• 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

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

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