With the IAAF World Championships set to take place in Daegu, South Korea, from August 27-September 4, it seemed only right to remind you of all the world records that are currently in place and which the likes of Usain Bolt will be hoping to shatter.
MEN
100 Metres – 9.58, Usain Bolt (JAM) Berlin 16/08/2009
200 Metres – 19.19, Usain Bolt (JAM) Berlin 20/08/2009
400 Metres – 43.18, Michael Johnson (USA) Seville 26/08/1999
800 Metres – 1:41.01, David Rudisha (KEN) Rieti 29/08/2010
1500 Metres – 3:26.00, Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) Rome 14/07/1998
5000 Metres – 12:37.35, Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) Hengelo 31/05/2004
10,000 Metres – 26:17.53, Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) Brussels 26/08/2005
Marathon – 2:03:59, Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) Berlin 28/09/2008
3000 Metres Steeplechase – 7:53.63, Saif Saaeed Shaheen (QAT) Brussels 03/09/2004
110 Metres Hurdles – 12.87, Dayron Robles (CUB) Ostrava 12/06/2008
400 Metres Hurdles – 46.78, Kevin Young (USA) Barcelona 06/08/1992
High Jump – 2.45m, Javier Sotomayor (CUB) Salamanca 27/07/1993
Pole Vault – 6.14m, Sergey Bubka (UKR) Sestriere 31/07/1994
Long Jump – 8.95m, Mike Powell (USA) Tokyo 30/08/1991
Triple Jump – 18.29m, Jonathan Edwards (GBR) Gothenburg 07/08/1995
Shot Put – 23.12m, Randy Barnes (USA) Westwood 20/05/1990
Discus Throw – 74.08m, Jurgen Schult (GDR) Neubrandenburg 06/06/1986
Hammer Throw – 86.74m, Yuriy Sedykh (USSR) Stuttgart 30/08/1986
Javelin Throw – 98.48m, Jan Zelezny (CZE) Jena 25/05/1996
Decathlon – 9,026pts, Roman Sebrle (CZE) Gotzis 27/05/2001
20 Kilometres Walk – 1:17:16, Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS) Saransk 29/09/2007
50 Kilometres Walk – 3:34:14, Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS) Cheboksary 11/05/2008
4×100 Metres Relay – 37.10, Jamaica (JAM) Beijing 22/08/2008
(Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell)
4×400 Metres Relay – 2:54.29, United States (USA) Stuttgart 22/08/1993
(Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Harry Reynolds, Michael Johnson)
WOMEN
100 Metres – 10.49, Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) Indianapolis 16/07/1988
200 Metres – 21.34, Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) Seoul 29/09/1988
400 Metres – 47.60, Marita Koch (GDR) Canberra 06/10/1985
800 Metres – 1:53.28, Jarmila Kratochvilova (CZE) Munich 26/07/1983
1000 Metres – 2:28.98, Svetlana Masterkova (RUS) Brussels 23/08/1996
1500 Metres – 3:50.46, Yunxia Qu (CHN) Beijing 11/09/1993
5000 Metres – 14:11.15, Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH) Oslo 06/06/2008
10,000 Metres – 29:31.78, Junxia Wang (CHN) Beijing 08/09/1993
Marathon – 2:15:25, Paula Radcliffe (GBR) London 13/04/2003
3000 Metres Steeplechase – 8:58.81, Gulnara Galkina (RUS) Beijing 17/08/2008
100 Metres Hurdles – 12.21, Yordanka Donkova (BUL) Stara Zagora 20/08/1988
400 Metres Hurdles – 52.34, Yuliya Pechenkina (RUS) Tula 08/08/2003
High Jump – 2.09m, Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Rome 30/08/1987
Pole Vault – 5.06m, Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS) Zurich 28/08/2009
Long Jump – 7.52m, Galina Chistyakova (USSR) Leningrad 11/06/1988
Triple Jump – 15.50m, Inessa Kravets (UKR) Gothenburg 10/08/1995
Shot Put – 22.63m, Natalya Lisovskaya (USSR) Moscow 07/06/1987
Discus – 76.80m, Gabriele Reinsch (GDR) Neubrandenburg 09/07/1988
Hammer – 79.42m, Betty Heidler (GER) Halle 21/05/2011
Javelin – 72.28m, Barbora Spotakova (CZE) Stuttgart 13/09/2008
Heptathlon – 7,291pts, Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) Seoul 24/09/1988
20 Kilometres Walk – 1:25:41, Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS) Helsinki 07/08/2005
4×100 Metres Relay – 41.37, East Germany (GDR) Canberra 06/10/1985
(Marlies Gohr, Silke Gladisch-Moller, Sabine Rieger-Gunther, Ingrid Auerswald-Lange)
4×400 Metres Relay – 3:15.17, Soviet Union (USSR) Seoul 01/10/1988
(Olga V.Nazarova, Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Vladykina-Bryzgina, Mariya Kulchunova-Pinigina)
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