Statistics for Athletics World Records

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Discipline	Hint	Answer	Athlete	Country	% Correct
200 m	__.19 s	19.19	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	100%
400 m	__.03 s	43.03	Wayde van Niekerk	South Africa	100%
100 m	_._8 s	9.58	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	100%
800 m	_:_0.91 min	1:40.91	David Rudisha	Kenya	90%
100m hurdles	__.12 s	12.12	Tobi Amusan	Nigeria	85%
1500 m	_:_6.00 min	3:26.00	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	85%
Marathon	_:_1:09 hrs	02:01:09	Eliud Kipchoge	Kenya	83%
5000 m	__:35.36 min	12:35.36	Joshua Cheptegei	Uganda	83%
110m hurdles	__.80 s	12.80	Aries Merritt	United States	83%
10000 m	__:11.00 min	26:11.00	Joshua Cheptegei	Uganda	83%
High jump	_._5 m	2.45 m	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	80%
400m hurdles	__.94 s	45.94	Karsten Warholm	Norway	80%
Pole vault	_._2 m	6.22 m	Armand Duplantis	Sweden	80%
Long jump	_._5 m	8.95 m	Mike Powell	United States	80%
Triple jump	__.29 m	18.29 m	Jonathan Edwards	United Kingdom	76%
Shot put	__.37 m	23.37 m	Ryan Crouser	United States	73%
Javelin throw	__.48m	98.48 m	Jan Železný	Czech Republic	73%
4 × 100m relay	__.84 s	36.84	Nesta Carter Michael Frater Yohan Blake Usain Bolt	Jamaica	71%
3000m steeplechase	_._2.11 min	7:52.11	Lamecha Girma	Ethiopia	71%
Discus throw	__.80 m	76.80 m	Gabriele Reinsch	East Germany	68%
Hammer throw	__.74 m	86.74 m	Yuriy Sedykh	Soviet Union	68%
Decathlon	__26 points	9126 pts	Kevin Mayer	France	66%
4 × 400m relay	_:_4.29 min	2:54.29	Andrew Valmon Quincy Watts Butch Reynolds Michael Johnson	United States	61%
Heptathlon	__91 points	7291 pts	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States	59%
20km walk	_:_6:36 hrs	01:16:36	Yusuke Suzuki	Japan	44%
50km walk	_:_2:33 hrs	03:32:33	Yohann Diniz	France	37%