List of world records in athletics
Men

List of world records in athletics

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

100 m	9.58	+0.9	Usain Bolt	JAM	16 Aug 2009	World Championships	Berlin	GER	​	P

200 m	19.19	−0.3	Usain Bolt	JAM	20 Aug 2009	World Championships	Berlin	GER	​	P

400 m	43.03	Wayde van Niekerk	RSA	14 Aug 2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	​	P

800 m	1:40.91	David Rudisha	KEN	9 Aug 2012	Olympic Games	London	GBR	​	P

1000 m	2:11.96	Noah Ngeny	KEN	5 Sep 1999	Rieti Meeting	Rieti	ITA	​	P

1500 m	3:26.00	Hicham El Guerrouj	MAR	14 Jul 1998	Golden Gala	Rome	ITA	​	P

Mile	3:43.13	Hicham El Guerrouj	MAR	7 Jul 1999	Golden Gala	Rome	ITA	​	P

2000 m	4:44.79	Hicham El Guerrouj	MAR	7 Sep 1999	ISTAF	Berlin	GER	​

3000 m	7:20.67	Daniel Komen	KEN	1 Sep 1996	Rieti Meeting	Rieti	ITA	​	P

5000 m (track)	12:37.35	Kenenisa Bekele	ETH	31 May 2004	Fanny Blankers-Koen Games	Hengelo	NED	​	P

5 km (road)	13:29	Julien Wanders	SUI	17 Feb 2019	5km Herculis	Monaco	MON	​

13:00	Sammy Kipketer	KEN	26 Mar 2000	Carlsbad 5000	Carlsbad	USA

10,000 m (track)	26:17.53	Kenenisa Bekele	ETH	26 Aug 2005	Memorial Van Damme	Brussels	BEL	​	P

10 km (road)	26:44	Leonard Patrick Komon	KEN	26 Sep 2010	Singelloop	Utrecht	NED	​

26:41	a	Jacob Kiplimo	UGA	31 Dec 2018	San Silvestre Vallecana	Madrid	ESP	​

20,000 m (track)	56:25.98	+	Haile Gebrselassie	ETH	27 Jun 2007	Golden Spike Ostrava	Ostrava	CZE

Half marathon	58:18	Abraham Kiptum	KEN	28 Oct 2018	Valencia Half Marathon	Valencia	ESP	​	P

One hour (track)	21,285 m	Haile Gebrselassie	ETH	27 Jun 2007	Golden Spike Ostrava	Ostrava	CZE	​	P

25,000 m (track)	1:12:25.4	+	Moses Mosop	KEN	3 Jun 2011	Prefontaine Classic	Eugene	USA

30,000 m (track)	1:26:47.4	Moses Mosop	KEN	3 Jun 2011	Prefontaine Classic	Eugene	USA

Marathon	2:01:39	Eliud Kipchoge	KEN	16 Sep 2018	Berlin Marathon	Berlin	GER	P

2:00:25	Eliud Kipchoge	KEN	6 May 2017	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	Monza	ITA	[1]

100 km (road)	6:09:14	Nao Kazami	JPN	24 Jun 2018	Lake Saroma Ultramarathon	Yūbetsu	JPN

110 m hurdles	12.80	+0.3	Aries Merritt	USA	7 Sep 2012	Memorial Van Damme	Brussels	BEL	​	P

400 m hurdles	46.78	Kevin Young	USA	6 Aug 1992	Olympic Games	Barcelona	ESP	​	P

3000 m steeplechase	7:53.63	Saif Saaeed Shaheen	QAT	3 Sep 2004	Memorial Van Damme	Brussels	BEL	​	P

7:53.17	X	Brahim Boulami	MAR	16 Aug 2002	Weltklasse Zürich	Zürich	SUI

High jump	2.45 m	Javier Sotomayor	CUB	27 Jul 1993	Gran Premio Diputación	Salamanca	ESP	​	P

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

Long jump	8.95 m	+0.3	Mike Powell	USA	30 Aug 1991	World Championships	Tokyo	JPN	​	P

Triple jump	18.29 m	+1.3	Jonathan Edwards	GBR	7 Aug 1995	World Championships	Gothenburg	SWE	​	P

Shot put	23.12 m	Randy Barnes	USA	20 May 1990	Jack in the Box Invitational	Westwood	USA	​	P

Discus throw	74.08 m	Jürgen Schult	GDR	6 Jun 1986	Neubrandenburg	GDR	​	P

Hammer throw	86.74 m	Yuriy Sedykh	URS	30 Aug 1986	European Championships	Stuttgart	GER	​	P

Javelin throw	98.48 m	Jan Železný	CZE	25 May 1996	Jena	GER	​	P

Decathlon	9126 pts	Kevin Mayer	FRA	16 Sep 2018	Décastar	Talence	FRA	​	P

10,000 m walk (track)	37:53.09	Paquillo Fernández	ESP	27 Jul 2008	Spanish Championships	Santa Cruz	ESP

10 km walk (road)	37:11	Roman Rasskazov	RUS	28 May 2000	Saransk	RUS

20,000 m walk (track)	1:17:25.6	Bernardo Segura	MEX	7 May 1994	Bergen	NOR

20 km walk (road)	1:16:36	Yusuke Suzuki	JPN	15 Mar 2015	Asian Race Walking Championships	Nomi	JPN	P

2 hours walk (track)	29,572 m	+	Maurizio Damilano	ITA	3 Oct 1992	Cuneo	ITA

30,000 m walk (track)	2:01:44.1	Maurizio Damilano	ITA	3 Oct 1992	Cuneo	ITA

50,000 m walk (track)	3:35:27.20	Yohann Diniz	FRA	12 Mar 2011	Reims	FRA

50 km walk (road)	3:32:33	Yohann Diniz	FRA	15 Aug 2014	European Championships	Zürich	SUI	​	P

4×100 m relay	36.84	Nesta Carter Michael Frater Yohan Blake Usain Bolt	JAM	11 Aug 2012	Olympic Games	London	GBR	​	P

4×200 m relay	1:18.63	Nickel Ashmeade Warren Weir Jermaine Brown Yohan Blake	JAM	24 May 2014	World Relays	Nassau	BAH	​	P

4×400 m relay	2:54.29	Andrew Valmon Quincy Watts Butch Reynolds Michael Johnson	USA	22 Aug 1993	World Championships	Stuttgart	GER	​	P

4×800 m relay	7:02.43	Joseph Mutua William Yiampoy Ismael Kombich Wilfred Bungei	KEN	25 Aug 2006	Memorial Van Damme	Brussels	BEL	​

Distance medley relay	9:15.50	Kyle Merber Brycen Spratling Brandon Johnson Ben Blankenship	USA	3 May 2015	World Relays	Nassau	BAH

4×1500 m relay	14:22.22	Collins Cheboi Silas Kiplagat James Kiplagat Magut Asbel Kiprop	KEN	25 May 2014	World Relays	Nassau	BAH	​

Road relay 42.195 km	1:57:06	Josephat Ndambiri Martin Mathathi Daniel Muchunu Mwangi Mekubo Mogusu Onesmus Nyerre John Kariuki	KEN	23 Nov 2005	Chiba Ekiden	Chiba	JPN

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Aries Merritt is an American athlete who competed in the 110 metre hurdles, and holds the world record with a time of 12.80 s set on September 7, 2012.
Aries Merritt is an American athlete who specializes in 110 metre hurdles, and holds the world record in that event with a time of 12.80 s set on September 7, 2012.
Aries Merritt is an American athlete who specializes in the 110 metre hurdles and holds the world record in that event with a time of 12.80 s set on September 7, 2012.

final_sentence: Aries Merritt is an American athlete who competed in the 110 metre hurdles, and holds the world record with a time of 12.80 s set on September 7, 2012.
final_sentence: Aries Merritt is an American athlete who specializes in 110 metre hurdles, and holds the world record in that event with a time of 12.80 s set on September 7, 2012.
final_sentence: Aries Merritt is an American athlete who specializes in the 110 metre hurdles and holds the world record in that event with a time of 12.80 s set on September 7, 2012.