Athletics World Records

Can you guess the world records of all 26 olympic disciplines of athletics?

To make it doable, we're only looking for the first two digits of each record (see "Hint" column)

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Last updated: August 29, 2023

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Discipline	Hint	Answer	Athlete	Country
100 m	_._8 s	9.58	Usain Bolt	Jamaica
200 m	__.19 s	19.19	Usain Bolt	Jamaica
400 m	__.03 s	43.03	Wayde van Niekerk	South Africa
800 m	_:_0.91 min	1:40.91	David Rudisha	Kenya
1500 m	_:_6.00 min	3:26.00	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco
5000 m	__:35.36 min	12:35.36	Joshua Cheptegei	Uganda
10000 m	__:11.00 min	26:11.00	Joshua Cheptegei	Uganda
Marathon	_:_1:09 hrs	02:01:09	Eliud Kipchoge	Kenya
100m hurdles	__.12 s	12.12	Tobi Amusan	Nigeria
110m hurdles	__.80 s	12.80	Aries Merritt	United States
400m hurdles	__.94 s	45.94	Karsten Warholm	Norway
3000m steeplechase	_._2.11 min	7:52.11	Lamecha Girma	Ethiopia
High jump	_._5 m	2.45 m	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba
Pole vault	_._2 m	6.22 m	Armand Duplantis	Sweden
Long jump	_._5 m	8.95 m	Mike Powell	United States
Triple jump	__.29 m	18.29 m	Jonathan Edwards	United Kingdom
Shot put	__.37 m	23.37 m	Ryan Crouser	United States
Discus throw	__.80 m	76.80 m	Gabriele Reinsch	East Germany
Hammer throw	__.74 m	86.74 m	Yuriy Sedykh	Soviet Union
Javelin throw	__.48m	98.48 m	Jan Železný	Czech Republic
Heptathlon	__91 points	7291 pts	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States
Decathlon	__26 points	9126 pts	Kevin Mayer	France
20km walk	_:_6:36 hrs	01:16:36	Yusuke Suzuki	Japan
50km walk	_:_2:33 hrs	03:32:33	Yohann Diniz	France
4 × 100m relay	__.84 s	36.84	Nesta Carter Michael Frater Yohan Blake Usain Bolt	Jamaica
4 × 400m relay	_:_4.29 min	2:54.29	Andrew Valmon Quincy Watts Butch Reynolds Michael Johnson	United States

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Aug 29, 2023

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PS. Crouser's World Record is now 23.56.

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