A list of the current World Outdoor Men’s records in athletics listing the event, Performance, Athlete, Nationality, Venue and Date of the record. Records in bold were set this year.
For more details and records see the IAAF page
100 Metres 9.58 Usain Bolt JAM Berlin 16/08/2009
200 Metres 19.19 Usain Bolt JAM Berlin 20/08/2009
400 Metres 43.18 Michael Johnson USA Seville 26/08/1999
800 Metres 1:40.91 David Rudisha KEN London 2012
1000 Metres 2:11.96 Noah Ngeny KEN Rieti 05/09/1999
1500 Metres 3:26.00 Hicham El Guerrouj MAR Rome 14/07/1998
One Mile 3:43.13 Hicham El Guerrouj MAR Rome 07/07/1999
2000 Metres 4:44.79 Hicham El Guerrouj MAR Berlin 07/09/1999
3000 Metres 7:20.67 Daniel Komen KEN Rieti 01/09/1996
5000 Metres 12:37.35 Kenenisa Bekele ETH Hengelo 31/05/2004
10,000 Metres 26:17.53 Kenenisa Bekele ETH Brussels 26/08/2005
10 Kilometres 26:44 Leonard Patrick Komon KEN Utrecht 26/09/2010
Half Marathon 58:23 Zersenay Tadese ERI Lisbon 21/03/2010
Marathon 2:03:38 Patrick Makau Musyoki KEN Berlin 25/09/2011
100 Kilometres 6:13:33 Takahiro Sunada JPN Tokoro 21/06/1998
3000 Metres Steeplechase 7:53.63 Saif Saaeed Shaheen QAT Brussels 03/09/2004
110 Metres Hurdles 12.87 Dayron Robles CUB Ostrava 12/06/2008
400 Metres Hurdles 46.78 Kevin Young USA Barcelona 06/08/1992
High Jump 2.45 Javier Sotomayor CUB Salamanca 27/07/1993
Pole Vault 6.14 Sergey Bubka UKR Sestriere 31/07/1994
Long Jump 8.95 Mike Powell USA Tokyo 30/08/1991
Triple Jump 18.29 Jonathan Edwards GBR Gothenburg 07/08/1995
Shot Put 23.12 Randy Barnes USA Los Angeles (Westwood), CA 20/05/1990
Discus Throw 74.08 Jürgen Schult GDR Neubrandenburg 06/06/1986
Hammer Throw 86.74 Yuriy Sedykh URS Stuttgart 30/08/1986
Javelin Throw 98.48 Jan Zelezný CZE Jena 25/05/1996
Decathlon 9039 Ashton Eaton USA Eugene, OR 23/06/2012
20,000 Metres Race Walk (track) 1:17:25.6 Bernardo Segura MEX Bergen (Fana) 07/05/1994
20 Kilometres Race Walk 01:17:16 (road) Vladimir Kanaykin RUS Saransk 29/09/2007
50,000 Metres Race Walk (track) 3:35:27.2 Yohann Diniz FRA Reims 12/03/2011
50 Kilometres Race Walk (road) 3:34:14 Denis Nizhegorodov RUS Cheboksary 11/05/2008
4×100 m relay 36.84 Jamaica (JAM) London (Olympic Games) 2012
(Nesta Carter,Michael Frater, Yohan Blake, Usain Bolt)
4×400 Metres Relay 2:54.29 United States Stuttgart 22/08/1993
(Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Harry Reynolds, Michael Johnson)
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