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 WORLD RECORDS AND BEST PERFORMANCES
as at 9th August 2006
Compiled by Athletics Weekly
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD
100 m              9.77           Asafa Powell (JAM)              14 Jun 2005 Athens
                   9.77           Justin Gatlin (USA)             12 May 2006 Doha
                   9.77           Asafa Powell (JAM)              11 Jun 2006 Gateshead
150 m              14.93+       # John Regis (GBR)                20 Aug 1993 Stuttgart
                   14.97        # Linford Christie ¶ (GBR)         4 Sep 1994 Sheffield
                   14.8         # Pietro Mennea (ITA)             22 May 1983 Cassino
200 m              19.32          Michael Johnson (USA)            1 Aug 1996 Atlanta
300 m              30.85A       # Michael Johnson (USA)           24 Mar 2000 Pretoria
400 m              43.18          Michael Johnson (USA)           26 Aug 1999 Seville
500 m              1:00.08      # Donato Sabia (ITA)              26 May 1984 Busto Arsizio
600 m              1:12.81      # Johnny Gray (USA)               24 May 1986 Santa Monica
800 m              1:41.11        Wilson Kipketer (DEN)           24 Aug 1997 Cologne
1000 m             2:11.96        Noah Ngeny (KEN)                 5 Sep 1999 Rieti
1500 m             3:26.00        Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)        14 Jul 1998 Rome
1 mile             3:43.13        Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)         7 Jul 1999 Rome
2000 m             4:44.79        Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)         7 Sep 1999 Berlin
3000 m             7:20.67        Daniel Komen (KEN)               1 Sep 1996 Rieti
2 miles            7:58.61      # Daniel Komen (KEN)              19 Jul 1997 Hechtel
5000 m             12:37.35       Kenenisa Bekele (ETH)           31 May 2004 Hengelo
10000 m            26:17.53       Kenenisa Bekele (ETH)           26 Aug 2005 Brussels
15000 m            42:34.0+     # Arturo Barrios (MEX)            30 Mar 1991 La Flčche
20000 m            56:55.6+       Arturo Barrios (MEX)            30 Mar 1991 La Flčche
25000 m            1:13:55.8+     Toshihiko Seko (JPN)            22 Mar 1981 Christchurch
30000 m            1:29:18.8      Toshihiko Seko (JPN)            22 Mar 1981 Christchurch
50000 m            2:48:06      # Jeff Norman (GBR)                7 Jun 1980 Timperley
40 miles           3:48:35+     # Don Ritchie (GBR)               16 Oct 1982 London (He)
100 km             6:10:20      # Don Ritchie (GBR)               28 Oct 1978 London (CP)
100 miles          11:28:03     # Oleg Kharitonov (RUS)           20 Oct 2002 London (CP)
1 hour             21,101m        Arturo Barrios (MEX)            30 Mar 1991 La Flčche
2 hours            37,994m      # Jim Alder (GBR)                 17 Oct 1964 Walton-on-Thames
24 hours           303.506km    # Yiannis Kouros (AUS)             5 Oct 1997 Adelaide
48 hours           473.797km    # Yiannis Kouros (AUS)             5 May 1996 Surgčres
2000 m SC          5:14.43      # Julius Kariuki (KEN)            21 Aug 1990 Rovereto
3000 m SC          7:53.63        Saif Saeed Shaheen (QAT)         3 Sep 2004 Brussels
110 m Hurdles      12.88          Liu Xiang (CHN)                 11 Jul 2006 Lausanne
200 m Hurdles      22.55        # Laurent Ottoz (ITA)             31 May 1995 Milan
                   21.9y st     # Don Styron (USA)                 2 Apr 1960 Baton Rouge
                   22.5         # Martin Lauer (FRG/GER)           7 Jul 1959 Zürich
300 m Hurdles      34.48        # Chris Rawlinson (GBR)           30 Jun 2002 Sheffield
400 m Hurdles      46.78          Kevin Young (USA)                6 Aug 1992 Barcelona
High Jump          2.45           Javier Sotomayor (CUB)          27 Jul 1993 Salamanca
Pole Vault         6.14A          Sergey Bubka (UKR)              31 Jul 1994 Sestriere
Long Jump          8.95           Mike Powell (USA)               30 Aug 1991 Tokyo
Triple Jump        18.29          Jonathan Edwards (GBR)           7 Aug 1995 Gothenburg
Shot               23.12          Randy Barnes ¶ (USA)            20 May 1990 Los Angeles (Ww)
Discus             74.08          Jürgen Schult (GDR/GER)          6 Jun 1986 Neubrandenburg
Hammer             86.74          Yuriy Sedykh (URS/RUS)          30 Aug 1986 Stuttgart
35 lb Weight       25.41        # Lance Deal (USA)                20 Feb 1993 Azusa
Javelin (1986)     98.48          Jan Železný (CZE)               25 May 1996 Jena
Decathlon          9026           Roman Šebrle (CZE)              27 May 2001 Götzis
                                  10.64 8.11 15.33 2.12 47.79  13.92 47.92 4.80 70.16 4:21.98
1 hour Decathlon   7897         # Robert Zmelík (TCH/CZE)         24 Sep 1992 Ostrava
                                  10.89 7.64 14.52 2.08 55.53  14.25 41.92 4.80 60.34 4:55.16
Double Decathlon   14185        # Kip Janvrin (USA)                8 Sep 2002 Turku
                                  11.42  6.79 25.31 13.63 18:23.97 2:02.46 1.87  50.64 34.27 11:22.96
                                  15.23 40.91 22.56  4.93 10:13.16 54.40 58.31 4:35.76 13.18 42:37.71
Pentathlon         4282 h OJ    # Bill Toomey (USA)               16 Aug 1969 London (CP)
                                  7.58 66.18 21.3  44.52 4:20.3
                   4222 OJ      # Guido Kratschmer (FRG/GER)       5 May 1984 Salzburg
                                  7.48 65.86 21.58 48.72 4:37.29
4x100 m Relay      37.40          United States                    8 Aug 1992 Barcelona
                                  (Mike Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Dennis Mitchell ¶, Carl Lewis)
                   37.40          United States                   21 Aug 1993 Stuttgart
                                  (Jon Drummond, Andre Cason, Dennis Mitchell ¶, Leroy Burrell)
4x200 m Relay      1:18.68        Santa Monica T.C. (USA)         17 Apr 1994 Walnut
                                  (Mike Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Floyd Heard, Carl Lewis)
4x400 m Relay      2:54.20        United States                   22 Jul 1998 Uniondale
                                  (Jerome Young ¶, Antonio Pettigrew, Tyree Washington, Michael Johnson)
4x800 m Relay      7:03.89        Great Britain & N.I. "A"        30 Aug 1982 London (CP)
                                  (Peter Elliott, Garry Cook, Steve Cram, Sebastian Coe)
4x1500 m Relay     14:38.8        Federal Republic of Germany     17 Aug 1977 Cologne
                                  (Thomas Wessinghage, Harald Hudak, Michael Lederer, Karl Fleschen)
4x1 mile Relay     15:49.08     # Irish Republic                  17 Aug 1985 Dublin (S)
                                  (Eamonn Coghlan, Marcus O'Sullivan, Frank O'Mara, Ray Flynn)

MEN'S ROAD RUNNING
5 km               13:00        # Sammy Kipketer (KEN)            26 Mar 2000 Carlsbad
                   13:00        # Sammy Kipketer (KEN)             1 Apr 2001 Carlsbad
4 miles            17:10        # Eliud Kipchoge (KEN)             9 Oct 2005 Groningen
8 km               22:02+       # Ismael Kirui (KEN)               2 May 1993 Dublin
                   22:03        # Peter Githuka (KEN)             20 Jul 1996 Kingsport
5 miles            22:05+       # Phillimon Hanneck (ZIM)         20 Mar 1993 New Orleans
                   22:08        # Ismael Kirui (KEN)               2 May 1993 Dublin
10 km              27:02          Haile Gebrselassie (ETH)        11 Dec 2002 Doha
12 km              33:31        # Joseph Kimani (KEN)             10 May 1997 Evansville
15 km              41:22+       # Haile Gebrselassie (ETH)         4 Sep 2005 Tilburg
                   41:29          Felix Limo (KEN)                11 Nov 2001 Nijmegen
10 miles           44:24        # Haile Gebrselassie (ETH)         4 Sep 2005 Tilburg
20 km              55:48+         Haile Gebrselassie (ETH)        15 Jan 2006 Phoenix-Tempe
                   57:19        # Evans Cheruiyot (KEN)           16 Oct 2005 Paris
Half Marathon      58:55          Haile Gebrselassie (ETH)        15 Jan 2006 Phoenix-Tempe
25 km              1:11:37        Haile Gebrselassie (ETH)        12 Mar 2006 Alphen aan den Rijn
30 km              1:28:00        Takayuki Matsumiya (JPN)        27 Feb 2005 Kumamoto
20 miles           1:35:22+     # Steve Jones (GBR)               20 Oct 1985 Chicago
Marathon           2:04:55        Paul Tergat (KEN)               28 Sep 2003 Berlin
50 km              2:43:38+     # Thompson Magawana (RSA)         12 Apr 1988 Claremont-Kirstenbosch
100 km             6:13:33        Takahiro Sunada (JPN)           21 Jun 1998 Lake Saroma
100 miles          11:46:37     # Yiannis Kouros (GRE)             8 May 1984 New York (Queens)
                   12:05:43+    # Andy Jones (CAN)                27 Sep 1997 Sylvania
24 hours           290.221km    # Yiannis Kouros (AUS)             3 May 1998 Basle
Marathon Relay     1:55:59      # Ethiopia                        24 Nov 2003 Chiba
                                  (Dejene Birhanu, Hailu Mekkonen, Gebregziabher Gebremariam, Markos Geneti, Sileshi Sihine)
                   1:57:06        Kenya                           23 Nov 2005 Chiba
                                  (Josephat Ndambiri, Martin Mathathi, Daniel Mwangi, Mekubo Mogusu, Onesmus Nyerere, John Kariuki)

MEN'S TRACK WALKING
1500 m             5:12.0+      # Algis Grigaliűnas (URS/LTU)     12 May 1990 Vilnius
1 mile             5:36.9       # Algis Grigaliűnas (URS/LTU)     12 May 1990 Vilnius
3000 m             10:47.11     # Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA)    19 May 1990 San Giovanni Valdarno
2 miles            11:47.02     # Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA)    29 Oct 1989 Siderno
5000 m             18:05.49     # Hatem Ghoula (TUN)               1 May 1997 Tunis
10000 m            37:58.6      # Ivano Brugnetti (ITA)           23 Jul 2005 Sesto San Giovanni
15000 m            57:47.0+     # Bernardo Segura (MEX)            7 May 1994 Fana
20000 m            1:17:25.6      Bernardo Segura (MEX)            7 May 1994 Fana
25000 m            1:41:10.3+   # Maurizio Damilano (ITA)          3 Oct 1992 Cuneo
30000 m            2:01:44.1      Maurizio Damilano (ITA)          3 Oct 1992 Cuneo
35000 m            2:31:10.5    # German Skurygin ¶ (RUS)          9 Sep 2001 Izhevsk
40000 m            2:55:54.0+   # Raúl González (MEX)              2 May 1980 Fana
50000 m            3:40:57.9      Thierry Toutain (FRA)           29 Sep 1996 Héricourt
100 km             9:16:32.2    # Frédéric Marie (FRA)            19 Apr 1987 Étréchy
1 hour             15,577m+     # Bernardo Segura (MEX)            7 May 1994 Fana
2 hours            29,572m+       Maurizio Damilano (ITA)          3 Oct 1992 Cuneo
24 hours           216.621km    # Claudio Sterpin (ITA)           19 Oct 1986 Milan

MEN'S ROAD WALKING
5 km               18:21        # Robert Korzeniowski (POL)       16 Sep 1990 Hildesheim
10 km              37:11        # Roman Rasskazov (RUS)           28 May 2000 Saransk
15 km              57:35+       # Vladimir Stankin (RUS)           8 Feb 2004 Adler
20 km              1:17:21        Jefferson Pérez (ECU)           23 Aug 2003 Saint-Denis
25 km              1:42:10+     # Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS)          8 Feb 2004 Adler
30 km              2:01:13+     # Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS)         19 Feb 2006 Adler
35 km              2:21:31      # Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS)         19 Feb 2006 Adler
40 km              2:51:13+     # Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS)        13 Jun 2004 Cheboksary
50 km              3:35:29      # Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS)        13 Jun 2004 Cheboksary
                   3:36:03        Robert Korzeniowski (POL)       27 Aug 2003 Saint-Denis
100 km             8:38:07      # Viktor Ginko (BLR)              27 Oct 2002 Scanzorosciate
24 hours           228.930kmA ? # Jesse Casteneda (USA)           19 Sep 1976 Albuquerque
                   226.432km    # Paul Forthomme (BEL)            14 Oct 1984 Brussels (W)

MEN'S INDOOR
50 m               5.55         # Ben Johnson ¶ (CAN)             31 Jan 1987 Ottawa
                   5.56A          Donovan Bailey (CAN)             9 Feb 1996 Reno
                   5.56         # Maurice Greene (USA)            13 Feb 1999 Los Angeles
55 m               5.99A        # Obadele Thompson (BAR)          22 Feb 1997 USAF Academy
60 m               6.39           Maurice Greene (USA)             3 Feb 1998 Madrid
                   6.39           Maurice Greene (USA)             3 Mar 2001 Atlanta
100 m              10.05        # Frankie Fredericks (NAM)        12 Feb 1996 Tampere
200 m              19.92          Frankie Fredericks (NAM)        18 Feb 1996 Liévin
300 m              31.88        # Wallace Spearmon (USA)          10 Feb 2006 Fayetteville
400 m              44.57          Kerron Clement (USA)            12 Mar 2005 Fayetteville
500 m              1:00.17      # Ken Lowery (USA)                16 Jan 1987 Indianapolis
600 m              1:15.12      # Nico Motchebon (GER)            28 Feb 1999 Sindelfingen
800 m              1:42.67        Wilson Kipketer (DEN)            9 Mar 1997 Paris (B)
1000 m             2:14.96        Wilson Kipketer (DEN)           20 Feb 2000 Birmingham
1500 m             3:31.18        Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)         2 Feb 1997 Stuttgart
1 mile             3:48.45        Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)        12 Feb 1997 Ghent
2000 m             4:52.86      # Haile Gebrselassie (ETH)        16 Feb 1998 Birmingham
3000 m             7:24.90        Daniel Komen (KEN)               6 Feb 1998 Budapest
2 miles            8:04.69      # Haile Gebrselassie (ETH)        21 Feb 2003 Birmingham
5000 m             12:49.60       Kenenisa Bekele (ETH)           20 Feb 2004 Birmingham
10000 m            27:50.29     # Mark Bett (KEN)                 10 Feb 2002 Ghent
2000 m SC          5:23.89      # Sergey Yepishin (URS/RUS)       11 Feb 1983 Moscow
3000 m SC          8:17.46      # Aleksandr Zagoruiko (URS/UKR)   21 Feb 1982 Moscow
50 m Hurdles       6.25           Mark McKoy (CAN)                 5 Mar 1986 Kobe
55 m Hurdles       6.82y        # Renaldo Nehemiah (USA)          30 Jan 1982 Dallas
                   6.89         # Renaldo Nehemiah (USA)          20 Jan 1979 New York
60 m Hurdles       7.30           Colin Jackson (GBR)              6 Mar 1994 Sindelfingen
110 m Hurdles      13.34        # Allen Johnson (USA)             14 Feb 1995 Moscow
300 m Hurdles      34.92 os     # Llewellyn Herbert (RSA)          9 Feb 1999 Tampere
400 m Hurdles      49.90 os     # Llewellyn Herbert (RSA)          9 Feb 2005 Mustasaari
High Jump          2.43           Javier Sotomayor (CUB)           4 Mar 1989 Budapest
Pole Vault         6.15           Sergey Bubka (UKR)              21 Feb 1993 Donetsk
Long Jump          8.79           Carl Lewis (USA)                27 Jan 1984 New York
Triple Jump        17.83          Aliecer Urrutia (CUB)            1 Mar 1997 Sindelfingen
                   17.83          Christian Olsson (SWE)           7 Mar 2004 Budapest
Shot               22.66          Randy Barnes ¶ (USA)            20 Jan 1989 Los Angeles
Discus             66.20        # Wolfgang Schmidt (GDR/GER)       9 Jan 1980 Berlin (?)
35 lb Weight       25.86        # Lance Deal (USA)                 4 Mar 1995 Atlanta
Javelin (1986)     85.78        # Matti Närhi (FIN)                3 Mar 1996 Kajaani
Heptathlon         6476           Dan O'Brien (USA)               14 Mar 1993 Toronto
                                  6.67 7.84 16.02 2.13  7.85 5.20 2:57.96
1500 m Walk        5:13.53      # Tim Lewis (USA)                 13 Feb 1988 East Rutherford
1 mile Walk        5:33.53      # Tim Lewis (USA)                  5 Feb 1988 New York
3000 m Walk        10:31.42     # Andreas Erm (GER)                4 Feb 2001 Halle
2 miles Walk       11:54.50     # Valdas Kazlauskas (URS/LTU)     24 Feb 1990 Kaunas
5000 m Walk        18:07.08       Mikhail Shchennikov (RUS)       14 Feb 1995 Moscow
10000 m Walk       38:31.4      # Werner Heyer (GDR/GER)          12 Jan 1980 Berlin (DH)
15000 m Walk       1:00:00.9+os # Ronald Weigel (GDR/GER)         27 Jan 1980 Senftenberg
                   1:00:03.9    # Valdas Kazlauskas (URS/LTU)     24 Jan 1987 Kaunas
20000 m Walk       1:20:40.0 os # Ronald Weigel (GDR/GER)         27 Jan 1980 Senftenberg
4x200 m Relay      1:22.11        Great Britain & N.I.             3 Mar 1991 Glasgow
                                  (Linford Christie ¶, Darren Braithwaite, Ade Mafe, John Regis)
4x400 m Relay      3:01.96      # United States                   11 Feb 2006 Fayetteville
                                  (Kerron Clement, Wallace Spearmon, Darold Williamson, Jeremy Wariner)
                   3:02.83        United States                    7 Mar 1999 Maebashi
                                  (Andre Morris, Dameon Johnson, Deon Minor, Milton Campbell)
4x800 m Relay      7:13.94      Global Athletics & Marketing (USA) 6 Feb 2000 Boston (R)
                                  (Joey Woody, Karl Paranya, Rich Kenah, David Krummenacker)
4x1500 m Relay     to be established
4x1 mile Relay     16:16.67     # New York A.C. (USA)             10 Jan 1993 Hanover NH
                                  (Brad Horton, Jeff Smith, Brad Schlapak, Bill Burke)

WOMEN'S TRACK & FIELD
100 m              10.49          Florence Griffith Joyner (USA)  16 Jul 1988 Indianapolis
150 m              16.10+       # Florence Griffith Joyner (USA)  29 Sep 1988 Seoul
                   16.46        # Merlene Ottey (JAM)             27 Sep 1989 Trapani
200 m              21.34          Florence Griffith Joyner (USA)  29 Sep 1988 Seoul
300 m              35.00+       # Marie-José Pérec (FRA)          27 Aug 1991 Tokyo
                   35.30A       # Ana Guevara (MEX)                3 May 2003 Mexico City
                   34.1+        # Marita Koch (GDR/GER)            6 Oct 1985 Canberra
400 m              47.60          Marita Koch (GDR/GER)            6 Oct 1985 Canberra
500 m              1:05.9       # Tatána Kocembová (TCH/CZE)       2 Aug 1984 Ostrava
600 m              1:22.63      # Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB)        25 Jul 1997 Guadalajara ESP
800 m              1:53.28        Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH/CZE) 26 Jul 1983 Munich
1000 m             2:28.98        Svetlana Masterkova (RUS)       23 Aug 1996 Brussels
1500 m             3:50.46        Qu Yunxia (CHN)                 11 Sep 1993 Beijing
1 mile             4:12.56        Svetlana Masterkova (RUS)       14 Aug 1996 Zürich
2000 m             5:25.36        Sonia O'Sullivan (IRL)           8 Jul 1994 Edinburgh
3000 m             8:06.11        Wang Junxia (CHN)               13 Sep 1993 Beijing
2 miles            9:11.97 mx   # Regina Jacobs ¶ (USA)           12 Aug 1999 Los Gatos
                   9:17.4+ e    # Paula Radcliffe (GBR)           20 Jun 2004 Bydgoszcz
                   9:19.56      # Sonia O'Sullivan (IRL)          27 Jun 1998 Cork
5000 m             14:24.53       Meseret Defar (ETH)              3 Jun 2006 New York (RI)
10000 m            29:31.78       Wang Junxia (CHN)                8 Sep 1993 Beijing
15000 m            49:44.0+     # Silvana Cruciata (ITA)           4 May 1981 Rome
20000 m            1:05:26.6      Tegla Loroupe (KEN)              3 Sep 2000 Borgholzhausen
25000 m            1:27:05.84     Tegla Loroupe (KEN)             21 Sep 2002 Mengerskirchen
30000 m            1:45:50.0      Tegla Loroupe (KEN)              6 Jun 2003 Warstein
50000 m            3:18:52+     # Carolyn Hunter-Rowe (GBR)        3 Mar 1996 Barry
40 miles           4:26:43      # Carolyn Hunter-Rowe (GBR)        7 Mar 1993 Barry
100 km             7:14:06      # Norimi Sakurai (JPN)            27 Sep 2003 San Giovanni Lupatoto
100 miles          14:25:45+    # Edit Bérces (HUN)               22 Sep 2002 San Giovanni Lupatoto
1 hour             18,340m        Tegla Loroupe (KEN)              7 Aug 1998 Borgholzhausen
2 hours            32,652m      # Chantal Langlacé (FRA)           3 Sep 1983 Amiens
24 hours           250.160km    # Edit Bérces (HUN)               22 Sep 2002 San Giovanni Lupatoto
48 hours           377.892km    # Sue Ellen Trapp (USA)            4 May 1997 Surgčres
2000 m SC          6:03.38      # Wioletta Janowska (POL)         15 Jul 2006 Gdansk
3000 m SC          9:01.59        Gulnara Samitova (RUS)           4 Jul 2004 Heraklion
100 m Hurdles      12.21          Yordanka Donkova (BUL)          20 Aug 1988 Stara Zagora
200 m Hurdles      25.82        # Patricia Girard (FRA)           22 Sep 1999 Nantes
                   25.6         # Patricia Girard (FRA)           23 Aug 2001 Nantes
300 m Hurdles      39.00        # Jana Pittman (AUS)              11 Jul 2004 Meilen
                   38.6         # Mame Tacko Diouf (SEN)          21 Feb 1999 Dakar
400 m Hurdles      52.34          Yuliya Pechonkina (RUS)          8 Aug 2003 Tula
High Jump          2.09           Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)        30 Aug 1987 Rome
Pole Vault         5.01           Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS)         12 Aug 2005 Helsinki
Long Jump          7.52           Galina Chistyakova (URS/RUS)    11 Jun 1988 St. Petersburg
Triple Jump        15.50          Inessa Kravets ¶ (UKR)          10 Aug 1995 Gothenburg
Shot               22.63          Natalya Lisovskaya (URS/RUS)     7 Jun 1987 Moscow
Discus             76.80          Gabriele Reinsch (GDR/GER)       9 Jul 1988 Neubrandenburg
Hammer             77.41          Tatyana Lysenko (RUS)           24 Jun 2006 Zhukovskiy
Javelin (1999)     71.70          Osleidys Menéndez (CUB)         14 Aug 2005 Helsinki
Decathlon          8358           Austra Skujyté (LTU)            15 Apr 2005 Columbia
                                  12.49 46.19 3.10 48.78 57.19  14.22w 6.12 16.42 1.78 5:15.86
Heptathlon         7291 OJ        Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)      24 Sep 1988 Seoul
                                  12.69 1.86 15.80 22.56  7.27 45.66 2:08.51
45 mins Heptathlon 6214 OJ      # Sabine Braun (GER)              28 Aug 1993 Ingelheim
                                  13.43 1.83 14.44 24.82  6.43 44.96 2:32.35
Double Heptathlon  10798        # Milla Kelo (FIN)                 8 Sep 2002 Turku
                                  14.89  1.51 5:03.74 62.18 12.73 25.16 12.59
                                  5.73w 56.10 32.69 2:23.94 28.72 47.86 11:48.68
Pentathlon         5213         # Nadezhda Tkachenko ¶ (URS/UKR)  24 Jul 1980 Moscow
                                  13.29 16.84 1.84 6.73 2:05.2a
4x100 m Relay      41.37          German Democratic Republic       6 Oct 1985 Canberra
                                  (Silke Gladisch/Möller, Sabine Rieger/Günther, Ingrid Auerswald/Lange, Marlies Göhr)
4x200 m Relay      1:27.46        United States "Blue"            29 Apr 2000 Philadelphia
                                  (LaTasha Jenkins, LaTasha Colander-Richardson, Nanceen Perry, Marion Jones)
4x400 m Relay      3:15.17        Soviet Union                     1 Oct 1988 Seoul
                                  (Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova ¶, Mariya Pinigina, Olga Bryzgina)
4x800 m Relay      7:50.17        Soviet Union                     5 Aug 1984 Moscow
                                  (Nadezhda Olizarenko, Lyubov Gurina, Lyudmila Borisova, Irina Podyalovskaya)
4x1500 m Relay     17:09.75     # Australia                       25 Jun 2000 London (BP)
                                  (Natalie Harvey, Georgie Clarke, Kate Richardson, Sarah Jamieson)
4x1 mile Relay     18:39.58     # University of Oregon (USA)       3 May 1985 Eugene
                                  (Brenda Bushnell, Leann Warren, Kathy Hayes, Claudette Groenendaal)

WOMEN'S ROAD RUNNING
5 km               14:46        # Meseret Defar (ETH)              9 Apr 2006 Carlsbad
4 miles            19:28        # Delillah Asiago ¶ (KEN)         17 Jun 1995 Peoria
8 km               24:05+       # Paula Radcliffe (GBR)           23 Feb 2003 San Juan
                   24:27x       # Sonia O'Sullivan (IRL)          17 Oct 1999 Loughrea
                   24:28        # Asmae Leghzaoui (MAR)           13 Jul 2002 Kingsport
5 miles            24:27        # Sonia O'Sullivan (IRL)          17 Oct 1999 Loughrea
                   24:47        # Paula Radcliffe (GBR)           24 Apr 1999 Balmoral
10 km              30:21          Paula Radcliffe (GBR)           23 Feb 2003 San Juan
12 km              38:23        # Delillah Asiago ¶ (KEN)         21 May 1995 San Francisco
15 km              46:41+       # Paula Radcliffe (GBR)           21 Sep 2003 Newcastle-South Shields
                   46:55+         Kayoko Fukushi (JPN)             5 Feb 2006 Marugame
                   46:57        # Elana Meyer (RSA)                2 Nov 1991 Cape Town
10 miles           50:01+       # Paula Radcliffe (GBR)           21 Sep 2003 Newcastle-South Shields
                   50:31 short? # Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR)        11 Oct 1987 Amsterdam-Zaandam
                   50:54        # Lornah Kiplagat (KEN)           22 Sep 2002 Amsterdam-Zaandam
                   51:00        # Sonia O'Sullivan (IRL)           8 Sep 2002 Portsmouth
20 km              1:02:21+ e   # Paula Radcliffe (GBR)           21 Sep 2003 Newcastle-South Shields
                   1:03:14+     # Masako Chiba (JPN)              19 Jan 1997 Tokyo
                   1:03:26+       Paula Radcliffe (GBR)            7 Oct 2001 Bristol
                   1:03:54      # Lornah Kiplagat (KEN)           11 Mar 2001 Alphen aan den Rijn
Half Marathon      1:05:40      # Paula Radcliffe (GBR)           21 Sep 2003 Newcastle-South Shields
                   1:06:44        Elana Meyer (RSA)               15 Jan 1999 Tokyo
25 km              1:20:36+ e   # Paula Radcliffe (GBR)           13 Apr 2003 London
                   1:21:03+     # Paula Radcliffe (GBR)           17 Apr 2005 London
                   1:22:13+       Mizuki Noguchi (JPN)            25 Sep 2005 Berlin
                   1:22:28 sh?  # Grete Waitz (NOR)               19 Mar 1986 Paderborn
                   1:24:26      # Jill Hunter/Boltz (GBR)         12 Oct 1991 Indianapolis
30 km              1:36:36+     # Paula Radcliffe (GBR)           13 Apr 2003 London
                   1:38:49+       Mizuki Noguchi (JPN)            25 Sep 2005 Berlin
                   1:39:09      # Mizuki Noguchi (JPN)            15 Feb 2004 Ohme-Hochi
20 miles           1:43:33+     # Paula Radcliffe (GBR)           13 Apr 2003 London
Marathon           2:15:25        Paula Radcliffe (GBR)           13 Apr 2003 London
50 km              3:04:30A dh? # Frith van der Merwe (RSA)        5 Aug 1989 Johannesburg-Centurion
                   3:08:39+     # Frith van der Merwe (RSA)       25 Mar 1989 Claremont-Kirstenbosch
100 km             6:33:11        Tomoe Abe (JPN)                 25 Jun 2000 Lake Saroma
100 miles          13:47:41     # Ann Trason (USA)                 4 May 1991 New York (Queens)
24 hours           243.657km    # Sigrid Lomsky (GER)              2 May 1993 Basle
Marathon Relay     2:11:22      # Ethiopia                        24 Nov 2003 Chiba
                                  (Berhane Adere, Tirunesh Dibaba, Eyerusalem Kuma, Ejegayehu Dibaba, Meseret Defar, Werknesh Kidane)
                   2:11:41        People's Republic of China      28 Feb 1998 Beijing
                                  (Jiang Bo, Dong Yanmei, Zhao Fengdi, Ma Zaijie, Lan Lixin, Li Na)

WOMEN'S TRACK WALKING
1500 m             5:47.03      # Kjersti Tysse Plätzer (NOR)      1 Sep 2002 Knarvik
1 mile             6:16.45      # Kjersti Tysse Plätzer (NOR)      2 Sep 2001 Knarvik
3000 m             11:48.24     # Ileana Salvador (ITA)           29 Aug 1993 Padua
2 miles            12:54.98     # Olimpiada Ivanova ¶ (RUS)       14 Sep 1996 Turin
5000 m             20:02.60       Gillian O'Sullivan (IRL)        13 Jul 2002 Dublin (S)
10000 m            41:56.23       Nadezhda Ryashkina (URS/RUS)    24 Jul 1990 Seattle
15000 m            1:05:00.6+   # Olimpiada Ivanova ¶ (RUS)        6 Sep 2001 Brisbane
20000 m            1:26:52.3      Olimpiada Ivanova ¶ (RUS)        6 Sep 2001 Brisbane
25000 m            1:57:38.0+   # Tatyana Sibileva (RUS)          26 Sep 2004 Izhevsk
30000 m            2:24:56.0    # Tatyana Sibileva (RUS)          26 Sep 2004 Izhevsk
35000 m            3:22:06.0+   # Svetlana Bychenkova (RUS)       27 Jun 1998 St. Petersburg
40000 m            3:53:06.2+   # Svetlana Bychenkova (RUS)       27 Jun 1998 St. Petersburg
50000 m            4:55:19.4    # Svetlana Bychenkova (RUS)       27 Jun 1998 St. Petersburg
100 km             11:17:42+    # Sandra Brown (GBR)              28 Oct 1990 Étréchy
1 hour             13,240m      # Rossella Giordano (ITA)          4 Aug 2004 Saluzzo
2 hours            25,000m>+    # Tatyana Sibileva (RUS)          26 Sep 2004 Izhevsk
24 hours           194.758km    # Sandra Brown (GBR)              20 Jul 1997 Ware

WOMEN'S ROAD WALKING
3 km               11:41        # Kjersti Tysse Plätzer (NOR)     13 Sep 2003 Hildesheim
5 km               20:05        # Olga Polyakova (RUS)            28 May 2000 Saransk
10 km              41:04        # Yelena Nikolayeva (RUS)         20 Apr 1996 Sochi
15 km              1:03:50+     # Olimpiada Ivanova ¶ (RUS)        4 Mar 2001 Adler
20 km              1:24:50      # Olimpiada Ivanova ¶ (RUS)        4 Mar 2001 Adler
                   1:25:41        Olimpiada Ivanova ¶ (RUS)        7 Aug 2005 Helsinki
25 km              2:08:46+     # Ileana Salvador (ITA)           28 Sep 1996 Växjö
30 km              2:33:59+     # Yelena Ginko (BLR)              17 Oct 2004 Scanzorosciate
35 km              2:57:51+     # Yelena Ginko (BLR)              17 Oct 2004 Scanzorosciate
40 km              3:22:04+     # Yelena Ginko (BLR)              17 Oct 2004 Scanzorosciate
50 km              4:12:16      # Yelena Ginko (BLR)              17 Oct 2004 Scanzorosciate
100 km             10:13:56     # Kora Boufflert (FRA)             9 Oct 1994 Roubaix
24 hours           211.250km    # Annie van der Meer (NED)        11 May 1986 Rouen

WOMEN'S INDOOR
50 m               5.96+          Irina Privalova (RUS)            9 Feb 1995 Madrid
55 m               6.54y        # Evelyn Ashford (USA)            26 Feb 1982 New York
                   6.54y        # Jeanette Bolden (USA)           21 Feb 1986 Inglewood
                   6.56         # Gwen Torrence (USA)             14 Mar 1987 Oklahoma City
60 m               6.92           Irina Privalova (RUS)           11 Feb 1993 Madrid
                   6.92           Irina Privalova (RUS)            9 Feb 1995 Madrid
100 m              11.15        # Marita Koch (GDR/GER)           12 Jan 1980 Berlin (SF)
200 m              21.87          Merlene Ottey (JAM)             13 Feb 1993 Liévin
300 m              35.45        # Irina Privalova (RUS)           17 Jan 1993 Moscow
400 m              49.59          Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH/CZE)  7 Mar 1982 Milan
500 m              1:07.36      # Natalya Nazarova (RUS)           7 Jan 2004 Moscow
600 m              1:23.44      # Olga Kotlyarova (RUS)            1 Feb 2004 Moscow
800 m              1:55.82        Jolanda Ceplak (SLO)             3 Mar 2002 Vienna
1000 m             2:30.94        Maria Mutola (MOZ)              25 Feb 1999 Stockholm
1500 m             3:58.28        Yelena Soboleva (RUS)           18 Feb 2006 Moscow
1 mile             4:17.14        Doina Melinte (ROM)              9 Feb 1990 East Rutherford
2000 m             5:30.53      # Gabriela Szabo (ROM)             8 Mar 1998 Sindelfingen
3000 m             8:27.86        Liliya Shobukhova (RUS)         17 Feb 2006 Moscow
2 miles            9:23.38      # Regina Jacobs ¶ (USA)           27 Jan 2002 Boston (R)
5000 m             14:32.93       Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH)           29 Jan 2005 Boston (R)
2000 m SC          6:08.59      # Svetlana Pospelova (RUS)        23 Feb 1996 Moscow
3000 m SC          9:07.00      # Tatyana Petrova (RUS)           17 Feb 2006 Moscow
50 m Hurdles       6.58           Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR/GER)    20 Feb 1988 Berlin (DH)
55 m Hurdles       7.30A        # Tiffany Lott (USA)              20 Feb 1997 USAF Academy
60 m Hurdles       7.69 Lyudmila Narozhilenko/Engquist ¶ (URS/RUS) 4 Feb 1990 Chelyabinsk
100 m Hurdles      12.64        # Ludmila Engquist ¶ (SWE)        10 Feb 1997 Tampere
300 m Hurdles      41.01 os     # Ilona Ranta (FIN)               26 Feb 2006 Tampere
400 m Hurdles      58.84 os     # Anja Rantanen (FIN)              7 Mar 2000 Mustasaari
High Jump          2.08           Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE)            4 Feb 2006 Arnstadt
Pole Vault         4.91           Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS)         12 Feb 2006 Donetsk
Long Jump          7.37           Heike Drechsler (GDR/GER)       13 Feb 1988 Vienna
Triple Jump        15.36          Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS)           6 Mar 2004 Budapest
Shot               22.50          Helena Fibingerová (TCH/CZE)    19 Feb 1977 Jablonec nad Nisou
Discus             57.44        # Tiina Kankaanpää (FIN)          11 Mar 2001 Helsinki
20 lb Weight       24.46 irreg  # Erin Gilreath (USA)             25 Feb 2005 Boston (R)
                   24.23        # Erin Gilreath (USA)             18 Feb 2005 Bloomington IN
Javelin (1999)     61.29        # Taina Uppa/Kolkkala (FIN)       28 Feb 1999 Mustasaari
Pentathlon         4995 os      # Anke Behmer (GDR/GER)            2 Feb 1988 Senftenberg
                                  8.21 1.78 14.94 6.80 2:07.72
                   4995 os      # Anke Behmer (GDR/GER)           25 Feb 1988 Senftenberg
                                  8.27 1.83 14.95 6.66 2:08.03
                   4991           Irina Belova (EUN/RUS)          15 Feb 1992 Berlin
                                  8.22 1.93 13.25 6.67 2:10.26
1500 m Walk        5:53.41      # Debbi Lawrence (USA)            15 Jan 1993 Hamilton CAN
1 mile Walk        6:16.72      # Sada Eidikyté (URS/LTU)         24 Feb 1990 Kaunas
3000 m Walk        11:35.34       Gillian O'Sullivan (IRL)        15 Feb 2003 Belfast
2 miles Walk       13:11.88     # Ileana Salvador (ITA)           14 Feb 1990 Genoa
5000 m Walk        20:37.77     # Ryta Turava (BLR)               13 Feb 2005 Minsk
10000 m Walk       44:07.43     # Yelena Ginko (BLR)              28 Jan 2006 Mogilyov
4x200 m Relay      1:32.41        Russia                          29 Jan 2005 Glasgow
                                  (Yekaterina Kondratyeva, Irina Khabarova, Yuliya Pechonkina, Yuliya Gushchina)
4x400 m Relay      3:23.37        Russia                          28 Jan 2006 Glasgow
                                  (Yuliya Gushchina, Olga Kotlyarova, Olga Zaytseva, Olesya Krasnomovets)
4x800 m Relay      8:18.71        Russia                           4 Feb 1994 Moscow
                                  (Olga Kuznetsova, Yelena Afanasyeva, Yelena Zaytseva, Yekaterina Podkopayeva)
4x1500 m Relay     to be established
4x1 mile Relay     20:23.24     # Rockford H.S. MI (USA)          11 Mar 2000 Bloomington IN
                                  (Nora Colligan, Linsey Blaisdel, Emily Blakeslee, Kalin Toadebusch)

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