List of World Championships in Athletics records
Men
Note: World records in bold are current world records, those in bold italics are former world records Statistics are correct as of August 2017

List of World Championships in Athletics records

Section Title: Men
Table Section Text: Note: World records in bold are current world records, those in bold italics are former world records Statistics are correct as of August 2017

Event	Record	Name	Location	Date	Ref	Video

100 m	9.58 (+0.9 m/s) WR	Usain Bolt (JAM)	Germany Berlin	16 August 2009	[1]

200 m	19.19 (−0.3 m/s) WR	Usain Bolt (JAM)	Germany Berlin	20 August 2009	[2]

400 m	43.18	Michael Johnson (USA)	Spain Sevilla	26 August 1999	[3]

800 m	1:43.06	Billy Konchellah (KEN)	Italy Rome	1 September 1987

1500 m	3:27.65	Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)	Spain Sevilla	24 August 1999

5000 m	12:52.79	Eliud Kipchoge (KEN)	France Paris	31 August 2003

10000 m	26:46.31	Kenenisa Bekele (ETH)	Germany Berlin	17 August 2009

Marathon	2:06:54	Abel Kirui (KEN)	Germany Berlin	22 August 2009

110 m hurdles	12.91 (+0.5 m/s)	Colin Jackson (GBR)	Germany Stuttgart	20 August 1993

400 m hurdles	47.18	Kevin Young (USA)	Germany Stuttgart	19 August 1993

3000 m steeplechase	8:00.43	Ezekiel Kemboi (KEN)	Germany Berlin	18 August 2009

High jump	2.41 m	Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR)	Russia Moscow	15 August 2013

Pole vault	6.05 m	Dmitri Markov (AUS)	Canada Edmonton	9 August 2001

Long jump	8.95 m (+0.3 m/s) WR	Mike Powell (USA)	Japan Tokyo	30 August 1991

Triple jump	18.29 m (+1.3 m/s) WR	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	Sweden Gothenburg	7 August 1995

Shot put	22.23 m	Werner Günthör (SUI)	Italy Rome	29 August 1987

Discus throw	70.17 m	Virgilijus Alekna (LTU)	Finland Helsinki	7 August 2005

Hammer throw	83.63 m	Ivan Tsikhan (BLR)	Japan Osaka	27 August 2007

Javelin throw	92.80 m	Jan Železný (CZE)	Canada Edmonton	12 August 2001

Decathlon	9045 pts WR	Ashton Eaton (USA)	China Beijing	28–29 August 2015

20 km walk (road)	1:17:21 WR	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	France Paris	23 August 2003

50 km walk (road)	3:33:11	Yohann Diniz (FRA)	United Kingdom London	13 August 2017

4 × 100 m relay	37.04	Jamaica (JAM) Nesta Carter Michael Frater Yohan Blake Usain Bolt	South Korea Daegu	4 September 2011	[4]

4 × 400 m relay	2:54.29 WR	United States (USA) Andrew Valmon Quincy Watts Harry Reynolds Michael Johnson	Germany Stuttgart	22 August 1993	[5]

Sentence(s)

On 22 August 2009, at the World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Abel Kirui recorded with a time of 2:06:54.
On August 22 at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, Abel Kirui achieved a record time of 2:06:54 in Berlin.
On August 22, 2009, Abel Kirui made a record of 2:06:54 at the World Championships in Athletics in Berlin.

final_sentence: On 22 August 2009, at the World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Abel Kirui recorded with a time of 2:06:54.
final_sentence: On August 22 at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, Abel Kirui achieved a record time of 2:06:54 in Berlin.
final_sentence: On August 22, 2009, Abel Kirui made a record of 2:06:54 at the World Championships in Athletics in Berlin.