Famous world records

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time/measure	gender	year	event and owner
9.58 s	men	2009	100 m (Usain Bolt, JAM)
50.68 s	women	2022	400 m hs (Sydney McLaughlin, USA)
24.43 s	women	2014	50 m butterfly (Sarah Sjöström, SWE)
5.06 m	women	2009	Pole vault (Yelena Isinbayeva, RUS)
45"94	men	2021	400 m hs(Karsten Warholm, NOR)
1:42.00	men	2009	200 m freestyle (Paul Biedermann, DEU)
56.792 km	men	2022	Hour record (Filippo Ganna, ITA)
43.03 s	men	2016	400 m (Wayde van Niekerk, ZAF)
1:52.85	women	2023	200 m freestyle (Mollie O'Callaghan, AUS)
2.45 m	men	1993	High jump (Javier Sotomayor, CUB)
22.63 m	women	1987	Shot put (Natalya Lisovskaya, URS)
8 in a row	men	2011-2019	Ski alpine world cup (Marcel Hirscher, AUT)
10.49 s	women	1988	100 m (Florence Griffith-Joyner, USA)
98.48 m	men	1996	Javelin (Jan Železný, CZE)
14:05.20	women	2023	5000 m (Faith Kipyegon, KEN)
18.29 m	men	1995	Triple jump (Jonathan Edwards, GBR)

time/measure	gender	year	event and owner
19.19 s	men	2009	200 m women (Usain Bolt, JAM)
15.74 m	women	2022	Triple jump (Yulimar Rojas, VEN)
372.5 km/h	open	2016	Max speed on a Formula 1 car (Valtteri Bottas, FIN)
88 victories	women	2012-2023	Ski alpine world cup victories (Mikaela Shiffrin, USA)
47.60 s	women	1985	400 m (Marita Koch, GDR)
8:04.79	women	2016	800 m freestyle (Katie Ledecky, USA)
247.083 km/h	women	2016	Speed skiing (Valentina Greggio, ITA)
6.22 m	men	2023	Pole vault (Armand Duplantis, SWE)
2:06.12	women	2015	200 m mixed (Katinka Hosszú, HUN)
8.95 m	men	1991	Long jump (Mike Powell, USA)
49.45	men	2021	100 m butterfly (Caleb Dressel, USA)
103 GPs	open	2007-2021	No. of won Formula 1 grand prixes (Lewis Hamilton, GBR)
860 goals	men	2021-2023	Goals in official football matches (Cristiano Ronaldo, POR)
3:55.38	women	2023	400 m freestyle (Ariarne Titmus, AUS)
2.09 m	women	1987	High jump (Stefka Kostadinova, BGR)
21.34 s	women	1988	200 m (Florence Griffith-Joyner, USA)