Athletics World Records

Can you guess the world records holders in athletics?

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1. 100m men (9.58)

Usain Bolt

Maurice Greene

Tyson Gay

Asafa Powell

2. 200m men (19.19)

Noah Lyles

Usain Bolt

Yohan Blake

Michael Johnson

3. 400m men (43.03)

Wayde van Niekerk

Jeremy Wariner

Butch Reynolds

Michael Johnson

4. 800m men (1:40.91)

Wilson Kipketer

Sammy Koskei

David Rudisha

Sebastian Coe

5. 1500m men (3:26.00)

Noureddine Morceli

Hicham El Guerrouj

Fermin Cacho

Bernard Lagat

6. 5000m men (12:35.36)

Daniel Komen

Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Josua Cheptegei

Kenenisa Bekele

7. 10,000m men (26:11.00)

Joshua Cheptegei

Mo Farah

Haile Gebrselassie

Paul Tergat

8. 110m hurdles (12.80)

Colin Jackson

Aries Merritt

Dayron Robles

Allen Johnson

9. 400m hurdles (45.94)

Samuel Matete

Kevin Young

Edwin Moses

Karsten Warholm

10. 3000m steeplechase men (7:52.11)

Brahim Boulami

Lamecha Girma

Saif Saaeed Shaheen

Moses Kiptanui

11. Marathon men (1:59:30)

Eliud Kipchoge

Sabastian Sawe

Kenenisa Bekele

Kelvin Kiptum

12. 20km walk men (1:16:36)

Yusuke Suzuki

Maurizio Damilano

Sergey Morozov

Wang Kaihua

13. High jump men (2.45m)

Javier Sotomayor

Mutaz Essa Barshim

Patrick Sjoberg

Bohdan Bondarenko

14. Long jump men (8.95m)

Carl Lewis

Larry Myricks

Bob Beamon

Mike Powell

15. Pole vault men (6.31m)

Steve Hooker

Renaud Lavillenie

Armand Duplantis

Sergey Bubka

16. Triple jump men (18.29m)

Christian Taylor

Mike Conley Sr.

James Beckford

Jonathan Edwards

17. Shot put men (23.56m)

Ryan Crouser

Kevin Toth

Randy Barnes

Joe Kovacs

18. Discus throw men (75.56m)

Jürgen Schult

Lars Riedel

Mykolas Alekna

Virgilijus Alekna

19. Hammer throw men (86.74m)

Tibor Gecsek

Yuriy Sedykh

Igor Astapkovich

Sergey Litvinov

20. Javelin throw men (98.48m)

Raymond Hecht

Jan Zelezny

Johannes Vetter

Andreas Thorkildsen

21. Decathlon (9126)

Roman Sebrle

Kevin Mayer

Dan O'Brien

Ashton Eaton

22. 4 x 100m relay men (36.84)

Japan

Jamaica

United States

Great Britain

23. 4 x 400 relay men (2:54.29)

United States

Bahmas

Poland

Great Britain

24. 100m women (10.49)

Merlene Ottey

Florence Griffith-Joyner

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Marion Jones

25. 200m women (21.34)

Daphne Schippers

Florence Griffith-Joyner

Marion Jones

Allyson Felix

26. 400m women (47.60)

Jarmila Kratochvilova

Marie-Jose Perec

Marita Koch

Kathy Freeman

27. 800m women (1:53.28)

Ana Fidelia Quirot

Pamela Jelimo

Jarmila Kratchvilova

Caster Semenya

28. 1500m women (3:48.68)

Faith Kipyegon

Yunxia Qu

Sifan Hassan

Genzebe Dibaba

29. 5000m women (13:58.06)

Letesenbet Gidey

Tirunesh Dibaba

Faith Kipyegon

Beatrice Chebet

30. 10,000m women (28:54.14)

Sifan Hassan

Wang Junxia

Letesenbet Gidey

Beatrice Chebet

31. Marathon women (2:15:41)

Tirunesh Dibaba

Ruth Chepng'etich

Tigst Assefa

Brigis Kosgei

32. 100m hurdles (12.12)

Tobi Amusan

Gail Devers

Brianna Rollins

Kendra Harrison

33. 400m hurdles women (50.37)

Femke Bol

Sydney McLaughlin

Kim Batten

Dalilah Muhammad

34. 3000m steeplechase women (8:44.32)

Norah Jeruto

Beatrice Chepkoech

Ruth Jebet

Gulnara Galkina

35. 20km walk women (1:23:49)

Yang Jiayu

Liu Hong

Katie Burnett

Olimpiada Ivanova

36. High jump women (2.10m)

Kajsa Bergqvist

Yaroslava Mahuchikh

Heike Henkel

Stefka Kostadinova

37. Long jump women (7.52m)

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Galina Chistyakova

Heike Drechsler

Brittney Reese

38. Pole vault women (5.06m)

Svetlana Feofanova

Sandi Morris

Yelena Isinbayeva

Stacy Dragila

39. Triple jump women (15.74m)

Yulimar Rojas

Francoise Mbango Etone

Inessa Kravets

Tatyana Lebedeva

40. Shot put women (22.63m)

Natalya Lisovskaya

Claudia Losch

Valerie Adams

Helena Fibingerova

41. Discus throw women (76.80m)

Ilke Wyludda

Zdenka Silhava

Sandra Elkasević

Gabriele Reinsch

42. Hammer throw women (82.98m)

Betty Heidler

Yipsi Moreno

Anita Wlodarczyk

Tatyana Lysenko

43. Javelin throw women (72.28m)

Trine Hattestad

Barbora Špotáková

Osleidys Menendez

Sara Kolak

44. Heptathlon (7291)

Carolina Kluft

Sabine Braun

Jessica Ennis

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

45. 4 x 100 relay women (40.82)

USA

Canada

Jamaica

Bahamas

46. 4 x 400 relay women (3:15.17)

USA

Soviet Union

Germany

Jamaica

47. 4 x 400 relay mixed (3:07.41)

Jamaica

USA

Bahamas

Netherlands

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