Athletics World Records

Can you guess the world records of all 26 olympic disciplines of athletics?

To make it doable, we're only looking for the first two digits of each record (see "Hint" column)

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Discipline

Hint

Answer

Athlete

Country

100 m

_._8 s

9.58

Usain Bolt

Jamaica

200 m

__.19 s

19.19

Usain Bolt

Jamaica

400 m

__.03 s

43.03

Wayde van Niekerk

South Africa

800 m

_:_0.91 min

1:40.91

David Rudisha

Kenya

1500 m

_:_6.00 min

3:26.00

Hicham El Guerrouj

Morocco

5000 m

__:35.36 min

12:35.36

Joshua Cheptegei

Uganda

10000 m

__:11.00 min

26:11.00

Joshua Cheptegei

Uganda

Marathon

_:_1:09 hrs

02:01:09

Eliud Kipchoge

Kenya

100m hurdles

__.12 s

12.12

Tobi Amusan

Nigeria

110m hurdles

__.80 s

12.80

Aries Merritt

United States

400m hurdles

__.94 s

45.94

Karsten Warholm

Norway

3000m steeplechase

_._2.11 min

7:52.11

Lamecha Girma

Ethiopia

High jump

_._5 m

2.45 m

Javier Sotomayor

Cuba

Pole vault

_._2 m

6.22 m

Armand Duplantis

Sweden

Long jump

_._5 m

8.95 m

Mike Powell

United States

Triple jump

__.29 m

18.29 m

Jonathan Edwards

United Kingdom

Shot put

__.37 m

23.37 m

Ryan Crouser

United States

Discus throw

__.80 m

76.80 m

Gabriele Reinsch

East Germany

Hammer throw

__.74 m

86.74 m

Yuriy Sedykh

Soviet Union

Javelin throw

__.48m

98.48 m

Jan Železný

Czech Republic

Heptathlon

__91 points

7291 pts

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

United States

Decathlon

__26 points

9126 pts

Kevin Mayer

France

20km walk

_:_6:36 hrs

01:16:36

Yusuke Suzuki

Japan

50km walk

_:_2:33 hrs

03:32:33

Yohann Diniz

France

4 × 100m relay

__.84 s

36.84

Nesta Carter Michael Frater Yohan Blake Usain Bolt

Jamaica

4 × 400m relay

_:_4.29 min

2:54.29

Andrew Valmon Quincy Watts Butch Reynolds Michael Johnson

United States

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1 Comments

Level 55

Aug 29, 2023

Thank you for the quiz, athletics is great!

PS. Crouser's World Record is now 23.56.

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