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Athletics World Records

Can you guess the world records holders in athletics?
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First submittedFebruary 13, 2021
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1. 100m men (9.58)
Tyson Gay
Maurice Greene
Usain Bolt
Asafa Powell
2. 200m men (19.19)
Noah Lyles
Yohan Blake
Usain Bolt
Michael Johnson
3. 400m men (43.03)
Jeremy Wariner
Wayde van Niekerk
Butch Reynolds
Michael Johnson
4. 800m men (1:40.91)
Wilson Kipketer
Sebastian Coe
David Rudisha
Sammy Koskei
5. 1500m men (3:26.00)
Fermin Cacho
Bernard Lagat
Hicham El Guerrouj
Noureddine Morceli
6. 5000m men (12:35.36)
Kenenisa Bekele
Jakob Ingebrigtsen
Josua Cheptegei
Daniel Komen
7. 10,000m men (26:11.00)
Joshua Cheptegei
Haile Gebrselassie
Mo Farah
Paul Tergat
8. 110m hurdles (12.80)
Colin Jackson
Aries Merritt
Allen Johnson
Dayron Robles
9. 400m hurdles (45.94)
Edwin Moses
Karsten Warholm
Kevin Young
Samuel Matete
10. 3000m steeplechase men (7:52.11)
Lamecha Girma
Brahim Boulami
Moses Kiptanui
Saif Saaeed Shaheen
11. Marathon men (1:59:30)
Sabastian Sawe
Eliud Kipchoge
Kelvin Kiptum
Kenenisa Bekele
12. 20km walk men (1:16:36)
Wang Kaihua
Sergey Morozov
Yusuke Suzuki
Maurizio Damilano
13. High jump men (2.45m)
Javier Sotomayor
Bohdan Bondarenko
Patrick Sjoberg
Mutaz Essa Barshim
14. Long jump men (8.95m)
Carl Lewis
Mike Powell
Bob Beamon
Larry Myricks
15. Pole vault men (6.31m)
Armand Duplantis
Steve Hooker
Sergey Bubka
Renaud Lavillenie
16. Triple jump men (18.29m)
Jonathan Edwards
James Beckford
Mike Conley Sr.
Christian Taylor
17. Shot put men (23.56m)
Randy Barnes
Kevin Toth
Ryan Crouser
Joe Kovacs
18. Discus throw men (75.56m)
Lars Riedel
Mykolas Alekna
Virgilijus Alekna
Jürgen Schult
19. Hammer throw men (86.74m)
Igor Astapkovich
Yuriy Sedykh
Sergey Litvinov
Tibor Gecsek
20. Javelin throw men (98.48m)
Jan Zelezny
Raymond Hecht
Johannes Vetter
Andreas Thorkildsen
21. Decathlon (9126)
Dan O'Brien
Ashton Eaton
Roman Sebrle
Kevin Mayer
22. 4 x 100m relay men (36.84)
Great Britain
Jamaica
United States
Japan
23. 4 x 400 relay men (2:54.29)
Poland
Great Britain
Bahmas
United States
24. 100m women (10.49)
Marion Jones
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Merlene Ottey
Florence Griffith-Joyner
25. 200m women (21.34)
Marion Jones
Allyson Felix
Daphne Schippers
Florence Griffith-Joyner
26. 400m women (47.60)
Marie-Jose Perec
Marita Koch
Jarmila Kratochvilova
Kathy Freeman
27. 800m women (1:53.28)
Caster Semenya
Ana Fidelia Quirot
Pamela Jelimo
Jarmila Kratchvilova
28. 1500m women (3:48.68)
Yunxia Qu
Genzebe Dibaba
Faith Kipyegon
Sifan Hassan
29. 5000m women (13:58.06)
Letesenbet Gidey
Tirunesh Dibaba
Faith Kipyegon
Beatrice Chebet
30. 10,000m women (28:54.14)
Letesenbet Gidey
Sifan Hassan
Wang Junxia
Beatrice Chebet
31. Marathon women (2:15:41)
Tigst Assefa
Brigis Kosgei
Ruth Chepng'etich
Tirunesh Dibaba
32. 100m hurdles (12.12)
Kendra Harrison
Gail Devers
Brianna Rollins
Tobi Amusan
33. 400m hurdles women (50.37)
Femke Bol
Kim Batten
Dalilah Muhammad
Sydney McLaughlin
34. 3000m steeplechase women (8:44.32)
Beatrice Chepkoech
Ruth Jebet
Gulnara Galkina
Norah Jeruto
35. 20km walk women (1:23:49)
Olimpiada Ivanova
Katie Burnett
Liu Hong
Yang Jiayu
36. High jump women (2.10m)
Kajsa Bergqvist
Yaroslava Mahuchikh
Heike Henkel
Stefka Kostadinova
37. Long jump women (7.52m)
Brittney Reese
Galina Chistyakova
Heike Drechsler
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
38. Pole vault women (5.06m)
Yelena Isinbayeva
Stacy Dragila
Sandi Morris
Svetlana Feofanova
39. Triple jump women (15.74m)
Tatyana Lebedeva
Francoise Mbango Etone
Yulimar Rojas
Inessa Kravets
40. Shot put women (22.63m)
Natalya Lisovskaya
Valerie Adams
Helena Fibingerova
Claudia Losch
41. Discus throw women (76.80m)
Ilke Wyludda
Sandra Elkasević
Zdenka Silhava
Gabriele Reinsch
42. Hammer throw women (82.98m)
Tatyana Lysenko
Yipsi Moreno
Anita Wlodarczyk
Betty Heidler
43. Javelin throw women (72.28m)
Trine Hattestad
Barbora Špotáková
Sara Kolak
Osleidys Menendez
44. Heptathlon (7291)
Sabine Braun
Jessica Ennis
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Carolina Kluft
45. 4 x 100 relay women (40.82)
Bahamas
USA
Jamaica
Canada
46. 4 x 400 relay women (3:15.17)
USA
Germany
Soviet Union
Jamaica
47. 4 x 400 relay mixed (3:07.41)
Netherlands
USA
Jamaica
Bahamas
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