Athletics World Records

Can you guess the world records holders in athletics?

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1. 100m men (9.58)

Asafa Powell ✓

Maurice Greene ✓

Tyson Gay ✓

Usain Bolt ✓

2. 200m men (19.19)

Noah Lyles ✓

Usain Bolt ✓

Michael Johnson ✓

Yohan Blake ✓

3. 400m men (43.03)

Butch Reynolds ✓

Michael Johnson ✓

Wayde van Niekerk ✓

Jeremy Wariner ✓

4. 800m men (1:40.91)

Wilson Kipketer ✓

Sammy Koskei ✓

David Rudisha ✓

Sebastian Coe ✓

5. 1500m men (3:26.00)

Hicham El Guerrouj ✓

Bernard Lagat ✓

Fermin Cacho ✓

Noureddine Morceli ✓

6. 5000m men (12:35.36)

Jakob Ingebrigtsen ✓

Daniel Komen ✓

Kenenisa Bekele ✓

Josua Cheptegei ✓

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

Mo Farah ✓

Paul Tergat ✓

Haile Gebrselassie ✓

Joshua Cheptegei ✓

8. 110m hurdles (12.80)

Colin Jackson ✓

Dayron Robles ✓

Allen Johnson ✓

Aries Merritt ✓

9. 400m hurdles (45.94)

Kevin Young ✓

Karsten Warholm ✓

Edwin Moses ✓

Samuel Matete ✓

10. 3000m steeplechase men (7:52.11)

Moses Kiptanui ✓

Brahim Boulami ✓

Saif Saaeed Shaheen ✓

Lamecha Girma ✓

11. Marathon men (2:00:36)

Birhanu Legese ✓

Kelvin Kiptum ✓

Kenenisa Bekele ✓

Eliud Kipchoge ✓

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

Sergey Morozov ✓

Yusuke Suzuki ✓

Maurizio Damilano ✓

Wang Kaihua ✓

13. High jump men (2.45m)

Patrick Sjoberg ✓

Bohdan Bondarenko ✓

Mutaz Essa Barshim ✓

Javier Sotomayor ✓

14. Long jump men (8.95m)

Larry Myricks ✓

Carl Lewis ✓

Bob Beamon ✓

Mike Powell ✓

15. Pole vault men (6.26m)

Sergey Bubka ✓

Steve Hooker ✓

Armand Duplantis ✓

Renaud Lavillenie ✓

16. Triple jump men (18.29m)

Mike Conley Sr. ✓

James Beckford ✓

Jonathan Edwards ✓

Christian Taylor ✓

17. Shot put men (23.56m)

Kevin Toth ✓

Joe Kovacs ✓

Randy Barnes ✓

Ryan Crouser ✓

18. Discus throw men (74.35m)

Lars Riedel ✓

Jürgen Schult ✓

Virgilijus Alekna ✓

Mykolas Alekna ✓

19. Hammer throw men (86.74m)

Yuriy Sedykh ✓

Tibor Gecsek ✓

Igor Astapkovich ✓

Sergey Litvinov ✓

20. Javelin throw men (98.48m)

Raymond Hecht ✓

Andreas Thorkildsen ✓

Jan Zelezny ✓

Johannes Vetter ✓

21. Decathlon (9126)

Kevin Mayer ✓

Dan O'Brien ✓

Roman Sebrle ✓

Ashton Eaton ✓

22. 4 x 100m relay men (36.84)

Great Britain ✓

Japan ✓

Jamaica ✓

United States ✓

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

Bahmas ✓

Great Britain ✓

United States ✓

Poland ✓

24. 100m women (10.49)

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce ✓

Merlene Ottey ✓

Florence Griffith-Joyner ✓

Marion Jones ✓

25. 200m women (21.34)

Daphne Schippers ✓

Florence Griffith-Joyner ✓

Marion Jones ✓

Allyson Felix ✓

26. 400m women (47.60)

Marie-Jose Perec ✓

Marita Koch ✓

Kathy Freeman ✓

Jarmila Kratochvilova ✓

27. 800m women (1:53.28)

Caster Semenya ✓

Ana Fidelia Quirot ✓

Jarmila Kratchvilova ✓

Pamela Jelimo ✓

28. 1500m women (3:49.11)

Faith Kipyegon ✓

Genzebe Dibaba ✓

Yunxia Qu ✓

Sifan Hassan ✓

29. 5000m women (14:05.20)

Meseret Defar ✓

Tirunesh Dibaba ✓

Faith Kipyegon ✓

Letesenbet Gidey ✓

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

Wang Junxia ✓

Beatrice Chebet ✓

Letesenbet Gidey ✓

Sifan Hassan ✓

31. Marathon women (2:09:56)

Tigst Assefa ✓

Ruth Chepng'etich ✓

Brigis Kosgei ✓

Tirunesh Dibaba ✓

32. 100m hurdles (12.12)

Brianna Rollins ✓

Tobi Amusan ✓

Gail Devers ✓

Kendra Harrison ✓

33. 400m hurdles women (50.37)

Femke Bol ✓

Sydney McLaughlin ✓

Kim Batten ✓

Dalilah Muhammad ✓

34. 3000m steeplechase women (8:44.32)

Gulnara Galkina ✓

Norah Jeruto ✓

Beatrice Chepkoech ✓

Ruth Jebet ✓

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

Yang Jiayu ✓

Liu Hong ✓

Olimpiada Ivanova ✓

Katie Burnett ✓

36. High jump women (2.10m)

Kajsa Bergqvist ✓

Stefka Kostadinova ✓

Yaroslava Mahuchikh ✓

Heike Henkel ✓

37. Long jump women (7.52m)

Jackie Joyner-Kersee ✓

Brittney Reese ✓

Heike Drechsler ✓

Galina Chistyakova ✓

38. Pole vault women (5.06m)

Stacy Dragila ✓

Yelena Isinbayeva ✓

Svetlana Feofanova ✓

Sandi Morris ✓

39. Triple jump women (15.74m)

Tatyana Lebedeva ✓

Francoise Mbango Etone ✓

Yulimar Rojas ✓

Inessa Kravets ✓

40. Shot put women (22.63m)

Natalya Lisovskaya ✓

Helena Fibingerova ✓

Valerie Adams ✓

Claudia Losch ✓

41. Discus throw women (76.80m)

Zdenka Silhava ✓

Sandra Elkasević ✓

Ilke Wyludda ✓

Gabriele Reinsch ✓

42. Hammer throw women (82.98m)

Tatyana Lysenko ✓

Anita Wlodarczyk ✓

Betty Heidler ✓

Yipsi Moreno ✓

43. Javelin throw women (72.28m)

Sara Kolak ✓

Trine Hattestad ✓

Barbora Špotáková ✓

Osleidys Menendez ✓

44. Heptathlon (7291)

Sabine Braun ✓

Jessica Ennis ✓

Carolina Kluft ✓

Jackie Joyner-Kersee ✓

45. 4 x 100 relay women (40.82)

Bahamas ✓

Canada ✓

Jamaica ✓

USA ✓

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

USA ✓

Germany ✓

Soviet Union ✓

Jamaica ✓

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

USA ✓

Netherlands ✓

Bahamas ✓

Jamaica ✓

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