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

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Colin Jackson was the 60 metres hurdles world record holder.

final_sentence: Colin Jackson was the 60 metres hurdles world record holder.