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100m: 9.84
Donovan Bailey (Canada)
Atlanta, USA, 27 July 1996

200m: 19.32
Michael Johnson (USA)
Atlanta, USA, 1 Aug 1996

400m: 43.29
Harry Lee 'Butch' Reynolds Jr (USA)
Zurich, Switzerland, 17 Aug 1988

800m: 1:41.11
Wilson Kipketer (Denmark)
Cologne, Germany, 24 Aug 1997

1,500m: 3:27.37
Noureddine Morceli (Algeria)
Nice, France, 12 July 1995

3,000m: 7:20.67
Daniel Komen (Kenya)
Rieti, Italy, 1 Sept 1996

5,000m: 12:39.36
Haile Gebreselassie (Ethiopia)
Helsinki, Finland, 13 June 1998

10,000m: 26:22.75
Haile Gebreselassie (Ethiopia)
Hengelo, Netherlands, 1 June1998

20,000m: 56:55.6
Arturo Barrios (Mexico, now USA)
La Fleche, France, 30 March 1991

30,000m: 1:29:18.8
Tashihika Seko (Japan)
Christchurch, New Zealand, 22 March 1981

110-m hurdles: 12.91
Colin Ray Jackson (GB)
Stuttgart, Germany, 20 Aug 1993

400-m hurdles: 46.78
Kevin Curtis Young (USA)
Barcelona, Spain, 6 Aug 1992

3,000 Steeplechase: 7:55.72
Bernard Bermasai (Kenya)
Cologne, Germany, 24 Aug 1997

4 x 100-m: 37.40
USA (Michael Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Dennis A. Mitchell, Carl Lewis)
Barcelona, Spain, 8 Aug 1992
And: USA (John A. Drummond Jr, Andre Cason, Dennis A. Mitchell, Leroy Burrell)
Stuttgart, Germany, 21 Aug 1993

4 x 200-m: 1:18.68
Santa Monica Track Club (USA)
(Michael Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Floyd Wayne Heard, Carl Lewis)
Walnut, California, USA, 17 April 1994

4 x 400-m: 2:54.29
USA (Andrew Valman, Quincy Watts, Butch Reynolds, Michael Duane Johnson)
Stuttgart, Germany, 21 Aug 1993

4 x 800-m: 7:03.89
Great Britain (Peter Elliot, Garry Peter Cook,Steve Cram, Sebastian Coe)
Crystal Palace, London, 30 Aug 1982

Field Events

High Jump: 2.45m (8ft ? in)
Javier Sotomayor (Cuba)
Salamanca, Spain, 27 July 1993

Pole Vault (A): 6.14m (20ft 1 ? in)
Sergey Nazarovich Bubka (Ukraine)
Setriere, Italy, 1 July 1994

Long Jump: 8.95m (29ft 4 ? in)
Mike Powell (USA)
Tokyo, Japan, 30 Aug 1991

Triple Jump: 18.29m (60ft ? in)
Jonathan Edwards (GB) Gothenburg,
Sweden, 7 Aug 1995

Shot: 23.12m (75ft 10 ? in)
Randy Barnes (USA)
Los Angeles, California, USA
20 May 1990
Discus: 74.08m (243ft)
Jurgen Schult (GDR)
Neubrandenburg, Germany, 6 June 1986

Hammer: 86.74m (284ft 7in)
Yuriy Georgiyevich Sedykh (USSR, now Russia)
Stuttgart, Germany, 30 Aug 1986

Javelin: 98.48m (323ft 1 in)
Jan Zelezny (Czech Republic)
Jena, Germany, 25 May 1996

Decathlon: 8,891 points
Dan Dion O'Brian (USA)
Talence, France, 4-5 Sept 1992
Day 1: 100m: 10.43sec; long jump: 8.08m (26ft 6 ? in)
Shot: 16.69m (54ft 9 ? in); high jump: 2.07m (6ft 9 ? in);
400m: 48.51sec
Day 2: 110-m hurdles: 13.98sec; discus: 48.56m (159ft 4 in);
Pole vault: 5.00m (16ft 4 ? in); javelin: 62.58m (205ft 4 in);
1,500m: 4:42.10sec


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