Complete Videos of Track and Field World Records

March 27, 2008 by Jimson Lee

This video is a great collection of all the Men’s Track and Field World Records (excludes distances over 5000 meters or Multis).

Some of these videos are very rare, as I haven’t seen these in a long long time (i.e. the pole vault or high jump record)

This list has a lot of outstanding performances… let me correct that, ALL of them are outstanding!

The one I am impressed with is Randy Barnes shot put. The 16 pound stone explodes out of his arm like a cannon. So much, that after the first bounce, it flies out of the throwing area!

For history sake, I have to include the pre-modern day javelin with Uwe Hohn 104.80 meters 1984 Javelin World Record. The video is shown here on YouTube. A couple more feet and he would have killed the pole vault competitors waiting on the other aide of the apron!

100 meters 9.77 - Asafa Powell (record has since been broken)
200 meters 19.32 - Michael Johnson
400 meters 43.18 - Michael Johnson
800 meters 1:41.11 - Wilson Kipketer
1500 meters 3:26.00 - Hicham El Guerrouj
Mile 3:43.13 - Hicham El Guerrouj
110mH 12.88 - Xiang Liu
400mH 46.78 - Kevin Young
Long Jump 8.95 - Mike Powell
Triple Jump 18.29 - Jonathan Edwards
Pole Vault 6.14 (A) - Sergey Bubka
High Jump 2.45 - Javier Sotomayor
Shot Put 23.12 - Randy Barnes
Discus 74.08 - Jürgen Schult
Hammer 86.74 - Yuriy Sedykh
Javelin 98.48 - Jan Zelezný

Here is the link on YouTube. The music is good, too!

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