Statistics for Athletics World Records

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Sex	Record	Holder(s)	Nation	Figure	% Correct
Men	4 x 100m	Carter, Frater, Blake, Bolt	Jamaica	36.84	100%
Men	100m	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	9.58	100%
Men	200m	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	19.19	100%
Men	Pole Vault	Armand Duplantis	Sweden	6.23	71%
Men	400m	Wayde Van Niekerk	South Africa	43.03	65%
Men	800m	David Rudisha	Kenya	1:40.91	63%
Women	200m	Florence Griffith Joyner	USA	21.34	63%
Women	100m	Florence Griffith Joyner	USA	10.49	63%
Men	400m Hurdles	Karsten Warholm	Norway	45.94	63%
Men	Javelin	Jan Zelezny	Czech Republic	98.48	55%
Men	Triple Jump	Johnathan Edwards	Great Britain	18.29	53%
Men	High Jump	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	2.45	51%
Men	Long Jump	Mike Powell	USA	8.95	49%
Women	Triple Jump	Yulimar Rojas	Venezuela	15.74	49%
Men	Mile	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	3:41.13	41%
Men	1500m	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	3:26.00	41%
Men	Marathon	Kelvin Kiptum	Kenya	2:00:35	37%
Men	Shotput	Ryan Crouser	USA	23.56	37%
Men	4 x 400m	Valman, Watts, Reynolds, Johnson	USA	2:54.29	37%
Men	10000m	Joshua Cheptegei	Uganda	26:11.00	35%
Men	5000m	Joshua Cheptegei	Uganda	12:35.36	35%
Men	110m Hurdles	Aries Merritt	USA	12.80	33%
Women	400m Hurdles	Sydney McLaughlin	USA	50.68	33%
Women	100m Hurdles	Tobi Amusan	Nigeria	12.12	33%
Women	Mile	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya	4:07.64	29%
Women	1500m	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya	3:49.11	29%
Women	4 x 100m	Madison, Felix, Knight, Jeter	USA	40.82	29%
Women	Pole Vault	Yelena Isinbayeva	Russia	5.06	29%
Women	5000m	Gudaf Tsegay	Ethiopia	14:00.21	24%
Men	Discus	Jurgen Schult	East Germany	74.08	24%
Women	400m	Marita Koch	East Germany	47.60	24%
Women	High Jump	Stefka Kostadinova	Bulgaria	2.09	24%
Women	10000m	Letesenbet Gidey	Ethiopia	29:01.03	22%
Women	Javelin	Barbora Špotáková	Czech Republic	72.28	20%
Women	Hammer	Anita Włodarczyk	Poland	82.98	18%
Men	Hammer	Yuriy Sedykh	Soviet Union	86.74	16%
Women	800m	Jarmila Kratochvílová	Czechoslovakia	1:53.28	14%
Women	Long Jump	Galina Chistyakova	Soviet Union	7.52	6%
Women	4 x 400m	Ledovskaya, Nazarova, Pinigina, Bryzhina	Soviet Union	3:15.17	6%
Women	Marathon	Tigst Assefa	Ethiopia	2:11:53	6%
Women	Discus	Gabriele Reinsch	East Germany	76.80	4%
Women	Shotput	Natalya Lisovskaya	Soviet Union	22.63	4%