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World Records - Male

As at 1 January 2008

Discipline	Performance	Wind	Athlete	Nat	Place	Date
100m	9.74	1.7	Asafa Powell	JAM	Rieti, ITA	9 Sep 07
200m	19.32	0.4	Michael Johnson	USA	Atlanta, USA	01 Aug 06
400m	43.18		Michael Johnson	USA	Sevilla, ESP	26 Aug 99
800m	01:41.11		Wilson Kipketer	DEN	Köln, GER	24 Aug 97
1000m	02:11.96		Noah Ngeny	KEN	Rieti, ITA	05 Sep 99
1500m	03:26.00		Hicham El Guerrouj	MAR	Roma, ITA	14 Jul 98
1 Mile	03:43.1		Hicham El Guerrouj	MAR	Roma, ITA	07 Jul 99
2000m	04:44.79		Hicham El Guerrouj	MAR	Berlin, GER	07 Sep 99
3000m	07:20.67		Daniel Komen	KEN	Rieti, ITA	01 Sep 96
5000m	12:37.35		Kenenisa Bekele	ETH	Hengelo, NED	31 May 04
10,000m	26:17.53		Kenenisa Bekele	ETH	Bruxelles, BEL	26 Aug 05
20,000m	56:26.0		Haile GEBRSELASSIE	ETH	Ostrava, CZE	27 Jun 07
1 Hour	21,285		Haile GEBRSELASSIE	ETH	Ostrava, CZE	27 Jun 07
25,000m	1:13:55.8		Toshihiko Seko	JPN	Christchurch, NZL	22 Mar 81
30,000m	1:29:18.8		Toshihiko Seko	JPN	Christchurch, NZL	22 Mar 81
3000m Steeplechase	07:53.63		Saif Saaeed Shaheen	QAT	Bruxelles, BEL	03 Sep 04
110m Hurdles	12.88	1.1	Xiang Liu	CHN	Lausanne, SUI	11 Jul 06
400m Hurdles	46.78		Kevin Young	USA	Barcelona, ESP	06 Aug 92
FIELD EVENTS
High Jump	2.45		Javier Sotomayor	CUB	Salamanca, ESP	27 Jul 93
Pole Vault	6.14		Sergey Bubka	UKR	Sestriere, ITA	31 Jul 94
Long Jump	8.95	0.3	Mike Powell	USA	Tokyo, JPN	30 Aug 91
Triple Jump	18.29	1.3	Jonathan Edwards	GBR	Göteborg, SWE	07 Aug 95
Shot Put	23.12		Randy Barnes	USA	Los Angeles , USA	20 May 90
Discus Throw	74.08		Jürgen Schult	GDR	Neubrandenburg, GDR	06 Jun 86
Hammer Throw	86.74		Yuriy Sedykh	RUS	Stuttgart, FRG	30 Aug 86
Javelin Throw	98.48		Jan Zelezný	CZE	Jena, GER	25 May 96
COMBINED EVENT
Decathlon	9026		Roman Šebrle (10.64, 8.11, 15.33, 2.12, 47.79, 13.92, 47.92, 4.80, 70.16, 4:21.98)	CZE	Götzis, AUT	26/27 May 01
RELAY RACES
4x100m Relay	37.4		Michael Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Dennis Mitchell, Carl Lewis	USA	Barcelona, ESP	08 Aug 92
Equal	37.4		Jon Drummond, Andre Cason, Dennis Mitchell, Leroy Burrell	USA	Stuttgart, GER	21 Aug 93
4x200m Relay	01:18.68		Michael Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Floyd Heard, Carl Lewis	USA	Walnut, USA	17 Apr 94
4x400m Relay	02:54.20		Jerome Young, Antonio Pettigrew, Tyree Washington, Michael Johnson	USA	New York, USA	22 Jul 98
4x800M Relay	07:02.43		Joseph Mutua, William Yiampoy, Ismael Kombich, Wilfred Bungei	KEN	Bruxelles, BEL	25 Aug 06
4x1500m Relay	14:38.8		Thomas Weswsinghage, Harald Hudak, Michael Lederer, Karl Fleschen	FRG	Köln, FRG	17 Aug 77
RACE WALKING (Track)
20,000m	1:17:25.6		Bernardo Segura	MEX	Bergen, NOR	07 May 94
30,000m	2:01:44.1		Maurizio Damilano	ITA	Cuneo, ITA	03 Aug 92
50,000m	3:40:57.9		Thierry Toutain	FRA	Héricourt, FRA	29 Sep 96
RACE WALKING (Road)
20km	1:17:16		Vladimir KANAYKIN	RUS	Saransk, RUS	29 Sep 07
50km Race	3:35:47		Nathan Deakes	AUS	Geelong, AUS	02 Dec 06
ROAD RACES
10km Road Race	27:02		Haile Gebrselassie	ETH	Doha, QAT	11 Dec 02
15km Road Race	41:29		Felix Limo	KEN	Nijmegen, NED	11 Nov 01
20km Road Race	55:48		Haile Gebrselassie	ETH	Phoenix, USA	15 Jan 06
Half Marathon	58:33		Samuel KAMAU WANJIRU	KEN	Den Haag, NED	17 Mar 07
25km Road Race	1:12:45		Paul Kosgei	KEN	Berlin, GER	09 May 04
30km Road Race	1:28:00		Takayuki Matsumiya	JPN	Kumamoto, JPN	27 Feb 05
Marathon	2:04:55		Paul Tergat	KEN	Berlin, GER	28 Sep 03
100km Road Race	6:13:33		Takahiro Sunada	JPN	Lake Saroma, JPN	21 Jun1998
Road Relay	1:57:06		Josephat Ndambiri, Martin Mathathi, Daniel Mwangi, Mekubo Mogusu, Onesmus Nyerre, John Kariuki	KEN	Chiba, JPN	23 Nov 05