Records

Event        Male record-holder              Female record-holder
100M         9.84-Donovan Bailey             10.49-Florence Joyner
200M         19.32-Michael Johnson           21.34-Florence Joyner
400M         43.29-Butch Reynolds            47.60-Marita Koch
800M         1:41.73-Sebastian Coe           1:53.28-Jarmila Kratochvilova
             1:41.73-Wilson Kipketer
1000M        2:12.18-Sebastian Coe           2:28.98-Svetlana Masterkova
1500M        3:27.37-Noureddine Morceli      3:50.46-Qu Yunxia
1 mile       3:44.39-Noureddine Morceli      4:12.56-Svetlana Masterkova
2000M        4:44.88-Noureddine Morceli      5:25.36-Sonia O'Sullivan
3000M        7:20.67-Daniel Komen            8:06.11-Wang Junxia
steeplechase 7:59.18-Moses Kiptanui          
5000M        12:44.39-Haile Gebrselassie     14:36.45-Fernanda Ribeiro
10,000M      26:31.32-Haile Gebrselassie     29:31.78-Wang Junxia
20,000M      56:55.6-Arturo Barrios          1:06:48.8-Izumi Maki
1 hour       13M 196Y-Arturo Barrios         11M 416Y-Silvana Cruciata
25,000M      1:13:55.8-Toshihiko Seko        1:29:29.2-Karolina Szabo
30,000M      1:29:18.8-Toshihiko Seko        1:47:05.6-Karolina Szabo
100m hurdles                                 12.46-Yordanka Donkova
110m hurdles 12.91-Colin Jackson
400m hurdles 46.78-Kevin Young               52.61-Kim Batten
4x100 relay  37.40-United States (2)         41.37-East Germany
4x200 relay  1:18.68-Santa Monica Track Club 1:28.15-East Germany
4x400 relay  2:54.29-United States           3:15.17-Soviet Union
4x800 relay  7:03.89-Great Britain           7:50.17-Soviet Union
4x1500 relay 14:38.8-West Germany