List of Olympic records in athletics
Men's records

List of Olympic records in athletics

Section Title: Men's records
Table Section Text: None

Event	Record	Athlete(s)	Nation	Games	Date	Ref(s)

100 metres	9.63	Usain Bolt	Jamaica (JAM)	2012 London	August 5, 2012

200 metres	19.30	Usain Bolt	Jamaica (JAM)	2008 Beijing	August 20, 2008

400 metres	♦43.03	Wayde van Niekerk	South Africa (RSA)	2016 Rio de Janeiro	August 14, 2016

800 metres	♦1:40.91	David Rudisha	Kenya (KEN)	2012 London	August 9, 2012

1,500 metres	3:32.07	Noah Ngeny	Kenya (KEN)	2000 Sydney	September 29, 2000

5,000 metres	12:57.82	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia (ETH)	2008 Beijing	August 23, 2008

10,000 metres	27:01.17	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia (ETH)	2008 Beijing	August 17, 2008

Marathon	2:06:32	Samuel Wanjiru	Kenya (KEN)	2008 Beijing	August 24, 2008

110 metres hurdles	12.91	Liu Xiang	China (CHN)	2004 Athens	August 27, 2004

400 metres hurdles	♦46.78	Kevin Young	United States (USA)	1992 Barcelona	August 6, 1992

3,000 m steeplechase	8:03.28	Conseslus Kipruto	Kenya (KEN)	2016 Rio de Janeiro	August 17, 2016

4×100 m relay	♦36.84	Nesta Carter Michael Frater Yohan Blake Usain Bolt	Jamaica (JAM)	2012 London	August 11, 2012

4×400 m relay	2:55.39	LaShawn Merritt Angelo Taylor David Neville Jeremy Wariner	United States (USA)	2008 Beijing	August 23, 2008

20 km walk	1:18:46	Chen Ding	China (CHN)	2012 London	August 4, 2012

50 km walk	3:36:53	Jared Tallent	Australia (AUS)	2012 London	August 11, 2012

High jump	2.39 m	Charles Austin	United States (USA)	1996 Atlanta	July 28, 1996

Long jump	8.90 m	Bob Beamon	United States (USA)	1968 Mexico City	October 18, 1968

Pole vault	6.03 m	Thiago Braz da Silva	Brazil (BRA)	2016 Rio de Janeiro	August 15, 2016

Triple jump	18.09 m	Kenny Harrison	United States (USA)	1996 Atlanta	July 27, 1996

Shot put	22.52 m	Ryan Crouser	United States (USA)	2016 Rio de Janeiro	August 18, 2016

Discus throw	69.89 m	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania (LTU)	2004 Athens	August 23, 2004

Hammer throw	84.80 m	Sergey Litvinov	Soviet Union (URS)	1988 Seoul	September 26, 1988

Javelin throw	90.57 m	Andreas Thorkildsen	Norway (NOR)	2008 Beijing	August 23, 2008

Decathlon	8893 pts	Roman Šebrle	Czech Republic (CZE)	2004 Athens	August 24, 2004

Ashton Eaton	United States (USA)	2016 Rio de Janeiro	August 18, 2016

Sentence(s)

On 17 August 2008, Kenenisa finished the 10,000m event with a time of 27:01.17, setting an Olympic Record.

final_sentence: On 17 August 2008, Kenenisa finished the 10,000m event with a time of 27:01.17, setting an Olympic Record.