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.
| Event
| Record
| Athlete
| Date
| Place
|
| 100 m
| 9.77 s
| Asafa Powell (Jamaica)
| June 14, 2005
| Athens, Greece
|
| June 11, 2006
| Gateshead, United Kingdom.
|
| Justin Gatlin (USA)
| May 12, 2006
| Doha, Qatar
|
| 200 m
| 19.32 s
| Michael Johnson (USA)
| August 1, 1996
| Atlanta, GA, USA
|
| 400 m
| 43.18 s
| Michael Johnson (USA)
| 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
|
| One 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
|
| 20,000 m
| 56:55.6
| Arturo Barrios (Mexico)
| March 30, 1991
| La Flèche, France
|
| Half marathon
| 58:55
| Haile Gebrselassie (Ethiopia)
| January 15, 2006
| Phoenix, Arizona, USA
|
| One hour
| 21.101 km
| Arturo Barrios (Mexico)
| March 30, 1991
| La Flèche, France
|
| 25,000 m
| 1:11:37
| Haile Gebrselassie (Ethiopia)
| March 12, 2006
| Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands
|
| 30,000 m
| 1:29:18.8
| Toshihiko Seko (Japan)
| March 22, 1981
| Christchurch, NZ
|
| Marathon
| 2:04:55
| Paul Tergat (Kenya)
| September 28, 2003
| Berlin, Germany
|
3000 m
steeplechase
| 7:53.63
| Saif Saaeed Shaheen (Qatar)
(born Stephen Cherono, Kenya)
| September 3, 2004
| Brussels, Belgium
|
| 110 m hurdles
| 12.91 s[Liu Xiang broke the record with 12.88 s on July 11, 2006 in Lausanne, Switzerland. The new record is awaiting Ratification, see "Liu Xiang 12.88 World 110m Hurdles record stunner"]
| Colin Jackson (UK)
Liu Xiang (China)
| August 20, 1993
August 27, 2004
| Stuttgart, Germany
Athens, Greece
|
| 400 m hurdles
| 46.78 s
| Kevin Young (USA)
| 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 (USA)
| August 30, 1991
| Tokyo, Japan
|
| Triple jump
| 18.29 m
| Jonathan Edwards (UK)
| August 7, 1995
| Göteborg, Sweden
|
| Shot put
| 23.12 m
| Randy Barnes (USA)
| May 20, 1990
| Los Angeles, CA, USA
|
| Discus
| 74.08 m
| Jürgen Schult (E. Germany)
| June 6, 1986
| Neubrandenburg, E. Germany
|
| Hammer
| 86.74 m
| Yuriy Sedykh (USSR)
| August 30, 1986
| Stuttgart, W. Germany
|
| Javelin
| 98.48 m
(Current design)
| Jan Železný (Czech Rep.)
| May 25, 1996
| Jena, Germany
|
104.80 m
(old design)
| Uwe Hohn (GDR)
| 20 July, 1984
| Berlin, Germany
|
| Decathlon
| 9026 pts
| Roman Šebrle (Czech Rep.)
| 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 (Ecuador)
| August 23, 2003
| Paris, France
|
| 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)
| 3:36:03
| Robert Korzeniowski (Poland)
| August 27, 2003
| Paris, France
|
4x100 m
relay
| 37.40 s
| Mike Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Dennis Mitchell, Carl Lewis (USA)
| Jon Drummond, Andre Cason, Dennis Mitchell, Leroy Burrell (USA)
August 8, 1992
August 21, 1993
| Barcelona, Spain
Stuttgart, Germany
|
4x200 m
relay
| 1:18.68
| Mike Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Floyd Heard, Carl Lewis (USA)
| April 17, 1994
| Walnut, CA, USA
|
4x400 m
relay
| 2:54.20
| Jerome Young, Antonio Pettigrew, Tyree Washington, Michael Johnson (USA)
| July 22, 1998
| New York City
|
4x800 m
relay
| 7:03.89
| Peter Elliott, Garry Cook, Steve Cram, Sebastian Coe (UK)
| August 30, 1982
| London, England
|
4x1500 m
relay
| 14:38.8
| Thomas Wessinghage, Harald Hudak, Michael Lederer, Karl Fleschen (W. Germany)
| August 17, 1977
| Cologne,
W. Germany
|
4x110 m
hurdles relay
| 54.40 s
| University of Tennessee (USA)
| May 22, 1981
| Knoxville, TN, USA
|
| Event
| Record
| Athlete
| Date
| Place
|
| 100 m
| 10.49 s
| Florence Griffith Joyner (USA)
| July 16, 1988
| Indianapolis, IN, USA
|
| 200 m
| 21.34s
| Florence Griffith Joyner (USA)
| September 29, 1988
| Seoul, S. Korea
|
| 400 m
| 47.60
| Marita Koch (E. Germany)
| October 6, 1985
| Canberra, Australia
|
| 800 m
| 1:53.28
| Jarmila Kratochvílová (Czechoslovakia)
| July 26, 1983
| Munich, W. 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
|
| One mile
| 4:12.56
| Svetlana Masterkova (Russia)
| August 14, 1996
| Zürich, Switzerland
|
| 2000 m
| 5:25.36
| Sonia O'Sullivan (Rep. Ireland)
| July 8, 1994
| Edinburgh, Scotland
|
| 3000 m
| 8:06.11
| Wang Junxia (China)
| September 13, 1993
| Beijing, China
|
| 5000 m
| 14:24.68[On 3 June 2006 this time was beat by Ethiopian Meseret Defar, who ran in 14:24.53 in New York. The new world record is currently subject to ratification - see "Meseret Defar runs 5000m World Record in New York - 14:24.53" by Parker Morse, IAAF, June 3, 2006)]
| Elvan Abeylegesse (Turkey)
| June 11, 2004
| Bergen, Norway
|
| 10,000 m
| 29:31.78
| Wang Junxia (China)
| September 8, 1993
| Beijing, China
|
| 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
|
| Half Marathon
| 1:06:44
| Elana Meyer (RSA)
| January 15, 1999
| Tokyo, Japan
|
| 25,000 m
| 1:27:05.8
| Tegla Loroupe (Kenya)
| September 21, 2002
| Mengerskirchen, Germany
|
| 30,000 m
| 1:45:50.0
| Tegla Loroupe (Kenya)
| June 7, 2003
| Warstein, Germany
|
| Marathon
| 2:15:25
| Paula Radcliffe (UK)
| April 13, 2003
| London, England, UK
|
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
| 52.34s
| 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 (USSR)
| June 11, 1988
| Leningrad, USSR
|
| Triple jump
| 15.50
| Inessa Kravets (Ukraine)
| August 10, 1995
| Gothenburg, Sweden
|
| Shot put
| 22.63
| Natalya Lisovskaya (USSR)
| June 7, 1987
| Moscow, USSR
|
| Discus
| 76.80
| Gabriele Reinsch (E. Germany)
| July 9, 1988
| Neubrandenburg, E. Germany
|
| Hammer throw
| 77.06 m[On 12 June 2006 this mark was beat by fellow Russian Gulfiya Khanafeyeva, who threw 77.26 metres at the Russian athletics championships in Tula. However, on 24 June 2006 Lysenko regained the record with 77.41 metres in Zhukovskiy. The new world record is currently subject to ratification - see "Lysenko regains World Hammer Throw Record ", IAAF, June 24, 2006)]
| Tatyana Lysenko (Russia)
| July 15, 2005
| Moscow, Russia
|
Javelin[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.]
| 71.70 m
(Current design)
| Osleidys Menéndez (Cuba)
| August 14, 2005
| Helsinki, Finland
|
80.00 m
(old design)
| Petra Felke (GDR)
| September 9, 1988
| Potsdam, East Germany
|
| Heptathlon
| 7291 pts
| Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)
| September 24, 1988
| Seoul, S. Korea
|
| 12.69s (100 m hurdles), 1.86 m (high jump), 15.80 m (shot put), 22.56s (200 m), 7.27 m (long jump), 45.66 m (javelin), 2:08.51 (800 m)
|
| Decathlon
| 8366 pts
| Austra Skujytė (Lithuania)
| 14 April, 2005 –
15 April, 2005
| Columbia, MO, USA
|
| 12.45 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 (Rep. of Ireland)
| July 13, 2002
| Dublin, Ireland
|
| 10000 m walk (track)
| 41:56.23
| Nadezhda Ryashkina (USSR)
| July 24, 1990
| Seattle, WA, 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
| Silke Gladisch, Sabine Rieger, Ingrid Auerswald, Marlies Göhr (E. Germany)
| October 6, 1985
| Canberra, Australia
|
| 4x200 m relay
| 1:27.46
| LaTasha Jenkins, LaTasha Colander-Richardson,
Nanceen Perry, Marion Jones (USA)
| April 29, 2000
| Philadelphia, PA, USA
|
| 4x400 m relay
| 3:15.17
| Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina, Olga Bryzgina (USSR)
| October 1, 1988
| Seoul, S. Korea
|
| 4x800 m relay
| 7:50.17
| Nadezhda Olizarenko, Lyubov Gurina, Lyudmila Borisova, Irina Podyalovskaya (USSR)
| August 5, 1984
| Moscow, USSR
|
"Athletics world record"