Athletics World Records
Every official world record in fourteen athletics events, each from the day it was set to the day it was broken.
Events 652 totals
-
Aug
26
1981
⏱️ Men's mile · 3:48.40 · Steve Ovett (2)
-
Aug
28
1981
⏱️ Men's mile · 3:47.33 · Sebastian Coe (3)
-
Sep
12
1981
⏱️ Women's mile · 4:20.89 · Lyudmila Veselkova
-
Oct
25
1981
⏱️ Women's marathon · 2:25:28 · Allison Roe
-
Dec
6
1981
⏱️ Men's marathon · 2:08:18 · Robert de Castella
-
Jan
16
1982
⏱️ Women's marathon · 2:29:01.6 · Charlotte Teske
-
May
15
1982
⏱️ Men's 100 m · 10.00 · Carl Lewis
-
Jul
9
1982
⏱️ Women's mile · 4:18.08 · Mary Decker-Tabb
-
Jul
9
1982
⏱️ Women's 100 m · 10.88 · Marlies Göhr
-
Jul
24
1982
⏱️ Men's long jump · 8.76 m · Carl Lewis
-
Aug
1
1982
⏱️ Women's long jump · 7.15 m · Anişoara Cuşmir
-
Aug
1
1982
⏱️ Women's long jump · 7.20 m · Valy Ionescu
-
Sep
8
1982
⏱️ Women's high jump · 2.02 m · Ulrike Meyfarth
-
Sep
8
1982
⏱️ Women's 400 m · 48.16 · Marita Koch
-
Sep
9
1982
⏱️ Women's mile · 4:17.44 · Maricica Puică
-
Sep
12
1982
⏱️ Women's marathon · 2:26:12 · Joan Benoit
-
Apr
17
1983
⏱️ Women's marathon · 2:25:28.7 · Grete Waitz
-
Apr
18
1983
⏱️ Women's marathon · 2:22:43 · Joan Benoit
-
May
14
1983
⏱️ Men's 100 m · 9.97 · Carl Lewis
-
May
15
1983
⏱️ Women's long jump · 7.21 m · Anişoara Cuşmir
-
Jun
4
1983
⏱️ Women's long jump · 7.43 m · Anişoara Cuşmir
-
Jun
4
1983
⏱️ Women's long jump · 7.27 m · Anişoara Cuşmir
-
Jun
8
1983
⏱️ Women's 100 m · 10.81 · Marlies Göhr
-
Jun
11
1983
⏱️ Men's high jump · 2.37 m · Zhu Jianhua
-
Jun
19
1983
⏱️ Men's long jump · 8.79 m · Carl Lewis
athletics-world-records