IAAF World Championships in Athletics
World records

IAAF World Championships in Athletics

Section Title: World records
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Sex	Event	Record	Athlete	Nation	Date	Year

Men	4 × 100 metres relay	37.86	Emmit King Willie Gault Calvin Smith Carl Lewis	United States (USA)	10 August	1983

Women	400 metres	47.99	Jarmila Kratochvílová	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	10 August	1983

Women	High jump	2.09 m	Stefka Kostadinova	Bulgaria (BUL)	30 August	1987

Men	100 metres	9.86	Carl Lewis	United States (USA)	25 August	1991

Men	Long jump	8.95 m	Mike Powell	United States (USA)	30 August	1991

Men	4 × 100 metres relay	37.50	Andre Cason Leroy Burrell Dennis Mitchell Carl Lewis	United States (USA)	1 September	1991

Men	110 metres hurdles	12.91	Colin Jackson	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20 August	1993

Men	4 × 100 metres relay	37.40	Jon Drummond Andre Cason Dennis Mitchell Leroy Burrell	United States (USA)	21 August	1993

Men	4 × 400 metres relay	2:54.29	Andrew Valmon Quincy Watts Butch Reynolds Michael Johnson	United States (USA)	22 August	1993

Women	400 metres hurdles	52.74	Sally Gunnell	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	19 August	1993

Women	Triple jump	15.09 m	Anna Biryukova	Russia (RUS)	21 August	1993

Men	Triple jump	18.16 m	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	7 August	1995

Men	Triple jump	18.29 m	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	7 August	1995

Women	400 metres hurdles	52.61	Kim Batten	United States (USA)	11 August	1995

Women	Triple jump	15.50 m	Inessa Kravets	Ukraine (UKR)	10 August	1995

Men	400 metres	43.18	Michael Johnson	United States (USA)	26 August	1999

Women	Pole vault	4.60 m	Stacy Dragila	United States (USA)	21 August	1999

Men	20 kilometres race walk	1:17:21	Jefferson Pérez	Ecuador (ECU)	23 August	2003

Men	50 kilometres race walk	3:36:03	Robert Korzeniowski	Poland (POL)	27 August	2003

Women	Pole vault	5.01 m	Yelena Isinbaeva	Russia (RUS)	12 August	2005

Women	Javelin throw	71.70 m	Osleidys Menéndez	Cuba (CUB)	14 August	2005

Women	20 kilometres walk	1:25:41	Olimpiada Ivanova	Russia (RUS)	7 August	2005

Men	100 metres	9.58	Usain Bolt	Jamaica (JAM)	16 August	2009

Men	200 metres	19.19	Usain Bolt	Jamaica (JAM)	20 August	2009

Men	4 × 100 metres relay	37.31	Steve Mullings Michael Frater Usain Bolt Asafa Powell	Jamaica (JAM)	22 August	2009

Women	Hammer throw	77.96 m	Anita Włodarczyk	Poland (POL)	22 August	2009

Men	4 × 100 metres relay	37.04	Nesta Carter Michael Frater Yohan Blake Usain Bolt	Jamaica (JAM)	4 September	2011

Men	Decathlon	9045 pts	Ashton Eaton	United States (USA)	29 August	2015

Women	50 kilometres race walk	4:05:56	Inês Henriques	Portugal (POR)	13 August	2017

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