Athletics games are organized across the world at certain times. One of the most interesting organizations in the field of athletics is the World Athletics Championships. Olympic Games and World Athletics Championships have managed to become organizations where many legendary athletes have competed from the past to the present. Athletics is a field that includes different disciplines. Many branches are exhibited at the World Athletics Championships from running to pole vaulting. The organization, where athletes compete for gold medals, has world records. Leading athletes in their field have managed to break records that are hard to beat in the Olympics and track and field championships. Championships are held separately for men and women. World Athletics Championship records are tried to be broken by athletes in every organization. This situation has caused the championships to attract even more attention. The records in the history of the World Athletics Championships are as follows:
Men's 100 Meters
Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt holds the world record in the men's 100-meter run. Usain Bolt holds the World Athletics Championships 100-meter dash record with a time of 9.58.
Men's 200 meters
Usain Bolt holds the world record in the men's 200-meter run with a time of 19.19. Bolt also broke the Olympic record at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a time of 19.90.
Women's 100 Meters
Griffith-Joyner who is from the United States and competing for her country, broke the women's 100-meter dash record in 1988 with a time of 10.49. She holds the Olympic record with a time of 10.62 at the Olympic Games in the same year.
Men's World Records
- 100 meters 9.58 Usain Bolt (Jamaica) 2009
- 200 meters 19.30 Usain Bolt (Jamaica) 2008
- 400 meters 43.18 Michael Johnson (USA) 1999
- 800 meters 1:41.11 Wilson Kipketer (Denmark) 1997
- 1500 meters 3:26.00 Hicham El Guerrouj (Morocco) 1998
- 5000 meters 12:37.35 Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia) 2004
- 10000 meters 26:17.53 Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia) 2005
- Marathon 02:03:59 Haile Gebrselassie (Ethiopia) 2008
- 110 meter hurdles 12.87 Dayron Robles (Cuba) 2008
- 400 meter hurdles 46.78 Kevin Young (USA) 1992
- 3000-meter steeplechase 7:53.63 Saif Saeed Shahin (Qatar) 2004
- High jump 2.45 Javier Sotomayor (Cuba) 1993
- Pole vault 6.14 Sergey Bubka (Ukraine) 1994
- Long jump 8.95 Mike Powell (USA) 1991
- 3-step jump 18.29 Jonathan Edwards (GB) 1995
- Shot put 23.12 Randy Barnes (USA) 1990
- Discus throw 74.08 Jürgen Schult (D.Germany) 1986
- Hammer throw 86.74 Yuri Sedykh (USSR) 1986
- Javelin throw 98.48 Jan Zelezny (Czech Republic) 1996
- Decathlon 9026 Roman Sebrle (Czech Republic) 2001
- 20 km walk 01:17:16 Vladimir Kanaykin (Russia) 2007
- 50 km walk 03:34:14 Denis Nizhegorodov (Russia) 2008
- 4x100 meter relay 37.10 Jamaica 2008
- 4x400 meter relay 2:54.29 USA 1993
Women World Records
- 100 meters 10.49 Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) 1988
- 200 meters 21.34 Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) 1988
- 400 meters 47.60 Marita Koch (D.Germany) 1985
- 800 meters 1:53.28 Jarmila Kratochvilova (Czechoslovakia) 1983
- 1500 meters 3:50.46 Wang Junxia (China) 1993
- 5000 meters 14:11.15 Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia) 2008
- 10000 meters 29:31.78 Wang Junxia (China) 1993
- Marathon 02:15:25 Paula Radcliffe (GB) 2003
- 100 meter hurdles 12.21 Yordanka Donkova (Bulgaria) 1988
- 400 meter hurdles 52.34 Yulia Pechonkina (Russia) 2003
- 3000 meter hurdles 8:58.81 Gulnara Galkina (Russia) 2008
- High jump 2.09 Stefka Kostadinova (Bulgaria) 1987
- Pole vault 5.05 Yelena Isinbayeva (Russia) 2008
- Long jump 7.52 Galina Chistyakova (Russia) 1988
- 3-step jump 15.50 Inessa Kravets (Ukraine) 1995
- Shot put 22.63 Natalya Lisovskaya (USSR) 1987
- Discus throw 76.80 Gabriela Reinsch (D.Germany) 1988
- Hammer throw 77.80 Tatyana Lysenko (Russia) 2006
- Javelin throw 72.28 Barbara Spotakova (Czech Republic) 2008
- Heptathlon 7291 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) 1988
- 20 km walk 01:25:41 Olympiada Ivanova (Russia) 2005
- 4x400 relay 3:15.17 Soviet Union 1988
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