Complete Videos of Track and Field World Records

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!