page_title: List of World Athletics Championships records
section_title: Men
hierarchical_section_title: List of World Athletics Championships records / Men
caption_attribution_description: Michael Johnson- Olympic Games 2000 - Jeux Olympiques de Sydney 2000 Prise le 22 août 2004 mis en ligne le 4 juillet 2005
context_page_description: The World Championships in Athletics is a biennial event which began in 1983. Organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations, the World Championships are a competition comprising track and field athletics events available to male and female athletes from any of the IAAF's 213 member federations. Championship records are set when an athlete achieves the best mark in an event at one of the editions of the Championships. World, area, and national records have been set at the championships over the course of its history.
  Competitors at the World Championships come from around the globe and records have been broken by athletes from all six continents. The United States has been the most successful competitor at the World Championships in both medals and records.
  Four athletes hold multiple records: Marion Jones holds both the individual and relay record in the 100 metres, Michael Johnson holds individual and relay records in the 400 metres, Jackie Joyner-Kersee broke both the heptathlon and long jump records in 1987, and Jarmila Kratochvílová set the records in the 400 and 800 metres at the inaugural Championships in 1983.
context_section_description: Key to tables:
   not ratified or later rescinded by World Athletics
  Note: World records in bold are current world records, those in bold italics are former world records
  Statistics are correct as of October 2019
caption: Double record holder Michael Johnson has held the 400 metres world record with his run in Seville for over 20 years.
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