The first Ukrainian national record, which is known to be ratified, dates back to 1921. Up until 1977, the national governing body ratified only hand-timed results as records. Starting from 1977 (the year of introducing the mandatory automatic time measurement in sprint events), Ukrainian governing body in athletics started keeping the auto-timed national records in 100 metres. It was the result of Valeriy Borzov (10.07), his winning time in the 1972 Olympics' quarterfinal, to become the first and remaining the only auto-timed national record in the history of Ukrainian athletics. The hand-timed national records in the same event continued to be kept in parallel up until the end of 2003.