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
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May
2
1914
⏱️ Men's high jump · 2.01 m · Edward Beeson
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Nov
29
1914
⏱️ Men's marathon · 2:38:00.8 · Umberto Blasi
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Jul
16
1915
⏱️ Men's mile · 4:12.6 · Norman Taber
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May
27
1916
⏱️ Men's 400 m · 47.4 · Ted Meredith
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Sep
29
1918
⏱️ Women's marathon · 5:40:00 · Marie-Louise Ledru
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Aug
20
1920
⏱️ Men's pole vault · 4.09 m · Frank Foss
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Aug
22
1920
⏱️ Men's marathon · 2:32:35.8 · Hannes Kolehmainen
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Sep
16
1920
⏱️ Men's 100 m · 10.6 · Jackson Scholz
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Apr
23
1921
⏱️ Men's 100 m · 10.4 · Redlands
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Jul
23
1921
⏱️ Men's long jump · 7.69 m · Cambridge
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May
20
1922
⏱️ Women's high jump · 1.46 m · Nancy Voorhees
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Aug
5
1922
⏱️ Women's 100 m · 13.6 · Marie Mejzlíková
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Aug
6
1922
⏱️ Women's long jump · 5.16 m · Prague
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Aug
20
1922
⏱️ Women's 100 m · 12.8 · Mary Lines
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Sep
22
1922
⏱️ Men's pole vault · 4.12 m · Charles Hoff
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May
13
1923
⏱️ Women's 100 m · 12.8 · Marie Mejzlíková
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May
26
1923
⏱️ Women's high jump · 1.485 m · Elizabeth Stine
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Jul
22
1923
⏱️ Men's pole vault · 4.21 m · Charles Hoff
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Aug
6
1923
⏱️ Women's high jump · 1.485 m · Sophie Eliott-Lynn
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Aug
23
1923
⏱️ Men's mile · 4:10.4 · Paavo Nurmi
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Sep
23
1923
⏱️ Women's long jump · 5.30 m · Prague, Czechoslovakia
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May
27
1924
⏱️ Men's high jump · 2.03 m · Harold Osborn
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Jul
7
1924
⏱️ Men's long jump · 7.76 m · Paris
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Jul
11
1924
⏱️ Men's 400 m · 47.6 · Eric Liddell
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Jun
13
1925
⏱️ Men's long jump · 7.89 m · Chicago
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