Portal:Sport of athletics/World records

World records (olympic events only) as of 7 July 2024

Bolded, italicized records with two asterisks (**) are pending ratification by World Athletics.

Event	Men	Record (Year)	Women	Record (Year)
100 metres	Usain Bolt	9.58 (2009)	Florence Griffith Joyner	10.49 (1988)
200 metres	Usain Bolt	19.19 (2009)	Florence Griffith Joyner	21.34 (1988)
400 metres	Wayde van Niekerk	43.03 (2016)	Marita Koch	47.60 (1985)
800 metres	David Rudisha	1:40.91 (2012)	Jarmila Kratochvílová	1:53.28 (1983)
1500 metres	Hicham El Guerrouj	3:26.00 (1998)	Faith Kipyegon	3:49.04 (2024)**
5000 metres	Joshua Cheptegei	12:35.36 (2020)	Gudaf Tsegay	14:00.21 (2023)
10000 metres	Joshua Cheptegei	26:11.00 (2020)	Beatrice Chebet	28:54.14 (2024)**
Marathon	Kelvin Kiptum	2:00:35 (2023)	Tigst Assefa	2:11:53 Mx (2023)
3000 metres steeplechase	Lamecha Girma	7:52.11 (2023)	Beatrice Chepkoech	8:44.32 (2018)
110 metres hurdles (men) 100 metres hurdles (women)	Aries Merritt	12.80 (2012)	Tobi Amusan	12.12 (2022)
400 metres hurdles	Karsten Warholm	45.94 (2021)	Sydney McLaughlin	50.65 (2024)**
High jump	Javier Sotomayor	2.45 m (1993)	Yaroslava Mahuchikh	2.10 m (2024)**
Pole vault	Armand Duplantis	6.24 m (2024)**	Yelena Isinbayeva	5.06 m (2009)
Long jump	Mike Powell	8.95 m (1991)	Galina Chistyakova	7.52 m (1988)
Triple jump	Jonathan Edwards	18.29 m (1995)	Yulimar Rojas	15.74 m (2022)
Shot put	Ryan Crouser	23.56 m (2023)	Natalya Lisovskaya	22.63 m (1987)
Discus throw	Mykolas Alekna	74.35 m (2024)**	Gabriele Reinsch	76.80 m (1988)
Hammer throw	Yuriy Sedykh	86.74 m (1986)	Anita Włodarczyk	82.98 m (2016)
Javelin throw	Jan Železný	98.48 m (1996)	Barbora Špotáková	72.28 m (2008)
Decathlon (men) Heptathlon (women)	Kevin Mayer	9126 pts (2018)	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	7291 pts (1988)
20 kilometres racewalk	Yusuke Suzuki	1:16:36 (2015)	Yang Jiayu	1:23:49 (2021)
4×100 metres relay	Jamaica Nesta Carter Michael Frater Yohan Blake Usain Bolt	36.84 (2012)	United States Tianna Bartoletta Allyson Felix Bianca Knight Carmelita Jeter	40.82 (2012)
4×400 metres relay	United States Andrew Valmon Quincy Watts Butch Reynolds Michael Johnson	2:54.29 (1993)	Soviet Union Tatyana Ledovskaya Olga Nazarova Mariya Pinigina Olga Bryzgina	3:15.17 (1988)