List of world records in athletics
Men

List of world records in athletics

Section Title: Men
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Event	Perf.	N	Athlete(s)	Nat.	Date	Meeting	Location	Ctry.	R	V	P

50 m	5.55	X	Ben Johnson	CAN	31 Jan 1987	Ottawa	CAN

5.56	A	Donovan Bailey	CAN	9 Feb 1996	Bill Cosby Invitational	Reno	USA	​

5.56	#	Maurice Greene	USA	13 Feb 1999	Los Angeles	USA

60 m	6.34	A	Christian Coleman	USA	18 Feb 2018	USA Championships	Albuquerque	USA	​	P

200 m	19.92	Frankie Fredericks	NAM	18 Feb 1996	Meeting Pas de Calais	Liévin	FRA	​

400 m	44.57	Kerron Clement	USA	12 Mar 2005	NCAA Men's Division I Indoor Championships	Fayetteville	USA

44.52	Michael Norman	10 Mar 2018	NCAA Division I Championships	College Station	​

800 m	1:42.67	Wilson Kipketer	DEN	9 Mar 1997	World Championships	Paris	FRA	​

1000 m	2:14.20	Ayanleh Souleiman	DJI	17 Feb 2016	Globen Galan	Stockholm	SWE	​

1500 m	3:31.18	Hicham El Guerrouj	MAR	2 Feb 1997	Sparkassen Cup	Stuttgart	GER	​

3:31.04	Samuel Tefera	ETH	16 Feb 2019	Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix	Birmingham	GBR	​

Mile	3:48.45	Hicham El Guerrouj	MAR	12 Feb 1997	Indoor Flanders Meeting	Ghent	BEL

3:47.01	Yomif Kejelcha	ETH	3 March 2019	Bruce Lehane Invitational	Boston	USA	​

3000 m	7:24.90	Daniel Komen	KEN	6 Feb 1998	Budapest	HUN

5000 m	12:49.60	Kenenisa Bekele	ETH	20 Feb 2004	Aviva Indoor Grand Prix	Birmingham	GBR

50 m hurdles	6.25	Mark McKoy	CAN	5 Mar 1986	Kobe	JPN

60 m hurdles	7.30	Colin Jackson	GBR	6 Mar 1994	Sindelfingen	GER

High jump	2.43 m	Javier Sotomayor	CUB	4 Mar 1989	World Championships	Budapest	HUN	P

Pole vault	6.16 m	Renaud Lavillenie	FRA	15 Feb 2014	Pole Vault Stars	Donetsk	UKR	P

Long jump	8.79 m	Carl Lewis	USA	27 Jan 1984	Millrose Games	New York City	USA

Triple jump	17.92 m	Teddy Tamgho	FRA	6 Mar 2011	European Championships	Paris	FRA

Shot put	22.66 m	Randy Barnes	USA	20 Jan 1989	Sunkist Invitational	Los Angeles	USA

Heptathlon	6645 pts	Ashton Eaton	USA	10 Mar 2012	World Championships	Istanbul	TUR

5000 m walk	18:07.08	Mikhail Shchennikov	RUS	14 Feb 1995	Russian Winter Meeting	Moscow	RUS

4×200 m relay	1:22.11	Linford Christie Darren Braithwaite Ade Mafe John Regis	GBR	3 Mar 1991	Glasgow	GBR

4×400 m relay	3:01.77	Karol Zalewski Rafał Omelko Łukasz Krawczuk Jakub Krzewina	POL	4 Mar 2018	World Championships	Birmingham	UK

3:00.77	Zach Shinnick Ray Benjamin Ricky Morgan Jr. Michael Norman	USA ATG USA USA	10 Mar 2018	NCAA Division I Championships	College Station	USA

3:01.39	Ilolo Izu Robert Grant Devin Dixon Mylik Kerley	USA	10 Mar 2018	NCAA Division I Championships	College Station	USA

4×800 m relay	7:11.30	Joe McAsey Kyle Merber Chris Giesting Jesse Garn	USA	25 Feb 2018	BU Last Chance Meet	Boston	USA

Sentence(s)

In 2005, Kerron Clement held the indoor world record in the 400 meter.

final_sentence: In 2005, Kerron Clement held the indoor world record in the 400 meter.