Men’s world records in sport
List with the current men’s world records for various sports such as athletics, swimming, and other. The list shows the athlete, his nationality, and the mark obtained in the corresponding discipline. Disciplines marked with (1) have different rules for men and women. Also take a look at women’s world records.
Sport | Discipline | Country | Competitor | World Record | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athletics | 10 Kilometres | ke | Leonard Patrick Komon | 00h 26m 44s 000ms | September 26, 2010 |
| Athletics | 10,000 Metres | et | Kenenisa Bekele | 00h 26m 17s 530ms | August 26, 2005 |
| Athletics | 100 Kilometres | jp | Nao Kazami | 06h 09m 14s 000ms | June 24, 2018 |
| Athletics | 100 Metres | jm | Usain Bolt | 00h 00m 09s 580ms | August 16, 2009 |
| Athletics | 1000 Metres | ke | Noah Ngeny | 00h 02m 11s 960ms | September 5, 1999 |
| Athletics | 110 Metres Hurdles | us | Aries Merritt | 00h 00m 12s 800ms | September 7, 2012 |
| Athletics | 1500 Metres | ma | Hicham El Guerrouj | 00h 03m 26s 000ms | July 14, 1998 |
| Athletics | 20 Kilometres Race Walk | jp | Yusuke Suzuki | 01h 16m 36s 000ms | March 15, 2015 |
| Athletics | 20,000 Metres | et | Haile Gebrselassie | 00h 56m 26s 000ms | June 27, 2007 |
| Athletics | 20,000 Metres Race Walk | mx | Bernardo Segura | 01h 17m 25s 600ms | May 7, 1994 |
| Athletics | 200 Metres | jm | Usain Bolt | 00h 00m 19s 190ms | August 20, 2009 |
| Athletics | 2000 Metres | ma | Hicham El Guerrouj | 00h 04m 44s 790ms | September 7, 1999 |
| Athletics | 25,000 Metres | ke | Moses Mosop | 01h 12m 25s 400ms | June 3, 2011 |
| Athletics | 30,000 Metres | ke | Moses Mosop | 01h 26m 47s 400ms | June 3, 2011 |
| Athletics | 30,000 Metres Race Walk | it | Maurizio Damilano | 02h 01m 44s 100ms | October 3, 1992 |
| Athletics | 3000 Metres | ke | Daniel Komen | 00h 07m 20s 670ms | September 1, 1996 |
| Athletics | 3000 Metres Steeplechase | qa | Saif Saaeed Shaheen | 00h 07m 53s 630ms | September 3, 2004 |
| Athletics | 400 Metres | za | Wayde Van Niekerk | 00h 00m 43s 030ms | August 14, 2016 |
| Athletics | 400 Metres Hurdles | us | Kevin Young | 00h 00m 46s 780ms | August 6, 1992 |
| Athletics | 4x100 Metres Relay | jm | Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Yohan Blake, Usain Bolt | 00h 00m 36s 840ms | August 11, 2012 |
| Athletics | 4x1500 Metres Relay | ke | Collins Cheboi, Silas Kiplagat, James Kiplagat Magut, Asbel Kiprop | 00h 14m 22s 220ms | May 25, 2014 |
| Athletics | 4x200 Metres Relay | jm | Nickel Ashmeade, Warren Weir, Jermaine Brown, Yohan Blake | 00h 01m 18s 630ms | May 24, 2014 |
| Athletics | 4x400 Metres Relay | us | Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Butch Reynolds, Michael Johnson | 00h 02m 54s 290ms | August 22, 1993 |
| Athletics | 4x800 Metres Relay | ke | Joseph Mutua, William Yiampoy, Ismael Kombich, Wilfred Bungei | 00h 07m 02s 430ms | August 25, 2006 |
| Athletics | 5 Kilometres | ch | Julien Wanders | 00h 13m 29s 000ms | February 17, 2019 |
| Athletics | 50 Kilometres Race Walk | fr | Yohann Diniz | 03h 32m 33s 000ms | August 15, 2014 |
| Athletics | 50 Metres | ca | Donovan Bailey | 00h 00m 05s 560ms | February 9, 1996 |
| Athletics | 50 Metres Hurdles | ca | Mark Mckoy | 00h 00m 06s 250ms | March 5, 1986 |
| Athletics | 50,000 Metres Race Walk | fr | Yohann Diniz | 03h 35m 27s 200ms | March 12, 2011 |
| Athletics | 5000 Metres | et | Kenenisa Bekele | 00h 12m 37s 350ms | May 31, 2004 |
| Athletics | 5000 Metres Race Walk | ru | Mikhail Shchennikov | 00h 18m 07s 080ms | February 14, 1995 |
| Athletics | 60 Metres | us | Christian Coleman | 00h 00m 06s 340ms | February 18, 2018 |
| Athletics | 60 Metres Hurdles | gb | Colin Jackson | 00h 00m 07s 300ms | March 6, 1994 |
| Athletics | 800 Metres | ke | David Rudisha | 00h 01m 40s 910ms | August 9, 2012 |
| Athletics | Decathlon (1) | fr | Kevin Mayer | 9,126 (pts) | September 16, 2018 |
| Athletics | Discus Throw (1) | dd | Jürgen Schult | 74.08 (m) | June 6, 1986 |
| Athletics | Distance Medley Relay | us | Kyle Merber, Brycen Spratling, Brandon Johnson, Ben Blankenship | 00h 09m 15s 500ms | May 3, 2015 |
| Athletics | Half Marathon | ke | Abraham Kiptum | 00h 58m 18s 000ms | October 28, 2018 |
| Athletics | Hammer Throw (1) | su | Yuriy Sedykh | 86.74 (m) | August 30, 1986 |
| Athletics | Heptathlon (1) | us | Ashton Eaton | 6,645 (pts) | March 10, 2012 |
| Athletics | High Jump | cu | Javier Sotomayor | 2.45 (m) | July 27, 1993 |
| Athletics | Javelin Throw (1) | cz | Jan Železný | 98.48 (m) | May 25, 1996 |
| Athletics | Long Jump | us | Mike Powell | 8.95 (m) | August 30, 1991 |
| Athletics | Marathon | ke | Eliud Kipchoge | 02h 01m 39s 000ms | September 16, 2018 |
| Athletics | One Hour | et | Haile Gebrselassie | 21,285.00 (m) | June 27, 2007 |
| Athletics | One Mile | ma | Hicham El Guerrouj | 00h 03m 43s 130ms | July 7, 1999 |
| Athletics | Pole Vault | fr | Renaud Lavillenie | 6.16 (m) | February 15, 2014 |
| Athletics | Road Relay | ke | Josephat Ndambiri, Martin Mathathi, Daniel Muchunu Mwangi, Mekubo Mogusu, Onesmus Nyerre, John Kariuki | 01h 57m 06s 000ms | November 23, 2005 |
| Athletics | Shot Put (1) | us | Randy Barnes | 23.12 (m) | May 20, 1990 |
| Athletics | Triple Jump | gb | Jonathan Edwards | 18.29 (m) | August 7, 1995 |
| Canoeing | C1 1000m | cz | Martin Fuksa | 00h 03m 42s 385ms | 2018 |
| Canoeing | C1 200m | lt | Vadim Korobov | 00h 00m 37s 446ms | 2016 |
| Canoeing | C1 4x200m relay | ru | Ivan Shtyl, Andrey Kraitor, Alexey Korovashkov, Nikolay Lipkin | 00h 02m 43s 602ms | 2014 |
| Canoeing | C1 5000m | de | Kurt Kuschela | 00h 20m 27s 350ms | 2010 |
| Canoeing | C1 500m | cz | Martin Fuksa | 00h 01m 43s 669ms | 2018 |
| Canoeing | C2 1000m | de | Yul Oeltze, Peter Kretschmer | 00h 03m 25s 041ms | 2018 |
| Canoeing | C2 200m | ru | Alexey Korovashkov, Ivan Shtyl | 00h 00m 35s 350ms | 2014 |
| Canoeing | C2 500m | ru | Alexey Korovashkov, Ivan Shtyl | 00h 01m 35s 270ms | 2014 |
| Canoeing | C4 1000m | ru | Ilya Pervukhin, Viktor Melantyev, Kirill Shamshurin, Rasul Ishmukhamedov | 00h 03m 10s 701ms | 2014 |
| Canoeing | C4 200m | ro | Robert Vinturis, Ionel Averian, Marian Ciucu, Cristian Mardale | 00h 00m 32s 753ms | 1997 |
| Canoeing | C4 500m | ru | Pavel Petrov, Mikhail Pavlov, Victor Melantiev, Ivan Shtyl | 00h 01m 29s 155ms | 2018 |
| Canoeing | K1 1000m | de | Max Hoff | 00h 03m 21s 890ms | 2015 |
| Canoeing | K1 200m | gb | Liam Heath | 00h 00m 33s 380ms | 2017 |
| Canoeing | K1 4x200m relay | hu | Miklós Dudás, Sándor Tótka, Bence Nádas, Dávid Hérics | 00h 02m 24s 193ms | 2014 |
| Canoeing | K1 5000m | no | Eirik Veras Larsen | 00h 18m 00s 040ms | 2009 |
| Canoeing | K1 500m | de | Tom Liebscher | 00h 01m 35s 040ms | 2019 |
| Canoeing | K2 1000m | rs | Marko Tomićević, Milenko Zorić | 00h 03m 04s 940ms | 2018 |
| Canoeing | K2 200m | rs | Nebojša Grujić, Marko Novaković | 00h 00m 30s 500ms | 2014 |
| Canoeing | K2 500m | hu | Bence Nádas, Sándor Tótka | 00h 01m 26s 500ms | 2017 |
| Canoeing | K4 1000m | cz | Daniel Havel, Lukáš Trefil, Josef Dostál, Jan Štěrba | 00h 02m 46s 724ms | 2014 |
| Canoeing | K4 200m | hu | Gyula Kajner, Vince Fehérvári, Zoltán Pager, István Beé | 00h 00m 29s 023ms | 1997 |
| Canoeing | K4 500m | de | Tom Liebscher, Ronald Rauhe, Max Rendschmidt, Max Lemke | 00h 01m 17s 734ms | 2017 |
| Finswimming | 100m BF | ru | Dimitri Seryakov | 00h 00m 41s 440ms | June 24, 2016 |
| Finswimming | 100m IM | kr | Lee Kwan-ho | 00h 00m 31s 240ms | June 24, 2016 |
| Finswimming | 100m SF | de | Max Poschart | 00h 00m 33s 870ms | May 7, 2017 |
| Finswimming | 1500 SF | hu | Ádám Bukor | 00h 12m 09s 740ms | July 5, 2017 |
| Finswimming | 200m BF | hu | Gergő Kosina | 00h 01m 33s 310ms | June 24, 2016 |
| Finswimming | 200m SF | co | Juan Fernando Ocampo | 00h 01m 18s 650ms | June 26, 2016 |
| Finswimming | 4×100m SF relay | ru | Pavel Kabanov, Aleksey Kazantsev, Dmitry Kokorev, Dmitry Zhurman | 00h 02m 16s 540ms | July 22, 2017 |
| Finswimming | 4×200m SF relay | ru | Dmitrii Zhurman, Andrey Barabash, Evgeny Smirnov, Dmitrii Kokorev | 00h 05m 22s 940ms | July 29, 2014 |
| Finswimming | 400m BF | ru | Aleksey Fedkin | 00h 03m 26s 690ms | August 1, 2018 |
| Finswimming | 400m IM | cn | Chi Cheng | 00h 02m 40s 400ms | June 25, 2016 |
| Finswimming | 400m SF | ru | Evgeny Smirnov | 00h 02m 56s 930ms | August 6, 2013 |
| Finswimming | 50m AP | ru | Pavel Kabanov | 00h 00m 13s 700ms | June 30, 2019 |
| Finswimming | 50m BF | ru | Andrey Arbuzov | 00h 00m 18s 410ms | June 25, 2016 |
| Finswimming | 50m SF | co | Mauricio Fernández | 00h 00m 15s 000ms | June 25, 2016 |
| Finswimming | 800m IM | hu | Szilárd Vilhelm | 00h 05m 46s 960ms | July 28, 2010 |
| Finswimming | 800m SF | ua | Oleksandr Odynokov | 00h 06m 16s 240ms | August 1, 2014 |
| Short Track Speed Skating | 1000 meters | kr | Hwang Dae-heon | 00h 01m 20s 875ms | November 12, 2016 |
| Short Track Speed Skating | 1500 meters | nl | Sjinkie Knegt | 00h 02m 07s 943ms | November 13, 2016 |
| Short Track Speed Skating | 3000 meters | kr | Noh Jin-kyu | 00h 04m 31s 891ms | March 19, 2011 |
| Short Track Speed Skating | 3000m relay | kr | Jung Hok-young, Kim Si-un, Moon Won-jun, Park Noh-won | 00h 03m 57s 047ms | January 30, 2017 |
| Short Track Speed Skating | 500 meters | cn | Wu Dajing | 00h 00m 39s 505ms | November 11, 2018 |
| Short Track Speed Skating | 5000m relay | hu | Csaba Burján, Cole Krueger, Shaoang Liu, Shaolin Sándor Liu | 00h 06m 28s 625ms | November 4, 2018 |
| Speed Skating | 1000 meters | nl | Kjeld Nuis | 00h 01m 06s 180ms | 9 March 2019 |
| Speed Skating | 10000 meters | ca | Ted-Jan Bloemen | 00h 12m 36s 300ms | 21 November 2015 |
| Speed Skating | 1500 meters | nl | Kjeld Nuis | 00h 01m 40s 170ms | 10 March 2019 |
| Speed Skating | 3000 meters | no | Eskil Ervik | 00h 03m 37s 280ms | 5 November 2005 |
| Speed Skating | 500 meters | ru | Pavel Kulizhnikov | 00h 00m 33s 610ms | 9 March 2019 |
| Speed Skating | 500 meters x 2 | ca | Jeremy Wotherspoon | 00h 01m 08s 310ms | 15 March 2008 |
| Speed Skating | 5000 meters | ca | Ted-Jan Bloemen | 00h 06m 01s 860ms | 10 December 2017 |
| Speed Skating | Big combination | nl | Patrick Roest | 145.561 (pts) | 3 March 2019 |
| Speed Skating | One hour | nl | Erik Jan Kooiman | 43,735.94 (m) | 9 December 2015 |
| Speed Skating | Small combination | nl | Erben Wennemars | 146.365 (pts) | 13 August 2005 |
| Speed Skating | Sprint combination | nl | Kai Verbij | 136.065 (pts) | 26 February 2017 |
| Speed Skating | Team pursuit (8 laps) | nl | Jan Blokhuijsen, Sven Kramer, Koen Verweij | 00h 03m 35s 600ms | 16 November 2013 |
| Speed Skating | Team sprint (3 laps) | ca | Vincent De Haître, Gilmore Junio, Laurent Dubreuil | 00h 01m 17s 310ms | 1 December 2017 |
| Sport Stacking | 3-3-3 | kr | Hyeon Jong Choi | 00h 00m 01s 322ms | November 4, 2018 |
| Sport Stacking | 3-6-3 | my | Chan Keng Ian | 00h 00m 01s 657ms | August 26, 2018 |
| Sport Stacking | Cycle | my | Chan Keng Ian | 00h 00m 04s 753ms | May 19th, 2019 |
| Swimming | 100 Backstroke LCM | us | Murphy Ryan | 00h 00m 51s 850ms | August 13, 2016 |
| Swimming | 100 Backstroke SCM | cn | Xu Jiayu | 00h 00m 48s 880ms | November 11, 2018 |
| Swimming | 100 Breaststroke LCM | gb | Peaty Adam | 00h 00m 56s 880ms | July 21, 2019 |
| Swimming | 100 Breaststroke SCM | za | Van Der Burgh Cameron | 00h 00m 55s 610ms | November 15, 2009 |
| Swimming | 100 Butterfly LCM | us | Dressel Caeleb | 00h 00m 49s 500ms | July 26, 2019 |
| Swimming | 100 Butterfly SCM | za | Le Clos Chad | 00h 00m 48s 080ms | December 8, 2016 |
| Swimming | 100 Freestyle LCM | br | Cielo Filho Cesar | 00h 00m 46s 910ms | July 30, 2009 |
| Swimming | 100 Freestyle SCM | fr | Leveaux Amaury | 00h 00m 44s 940ms | December 13, 2008 |
| Swimming | 100 Medley SCM | ru | Morozov Vladimir | 00h 00m 50s 260ms | September 28, 2018 |
| Swimming | 1500 Freestyle LCM | cn | Sun Yang | 00h 14m 31s 020ms | August 4, 2012 |
| Swimming | 1500 Freestyle SCM | it | Paltrinieri Gregorio | 00h 14m 08s 060ms | December 2, 2015 |
| Swimming | 200 Backstroke LCM | us | Peirsol Aaron | 00h 01m 51s 920ms | July 31, 2009 |
| Swimming | 200 Backstroke SCM | au | Larkin Mitchell | 00h 01m 45s 630ms | November 27, 2015 |
| Swimming | 200 Breaststroke LCM | ru | Chupkov Anton | 00h 02m 06s 120ms | July 26, 2019 |
| Swimming | 200 Breaststroke SCM | ru | Prigoda Kirill | 00h 02m 00s 160ms | December 13, 2018 |
| Swimming | 200 Butterfly LCM | hu | Milak Kristof | 00h 01m 50s 730ms | July 24, 2019 |
| Swimming | 200 Butterfly SCM | jp | Seto Daiya | 00h 01m 48s 240ms | December 11, 2018 |
| Swimming | 200 Freestyle LCM | de | Biedermann Paul | 00h 01m 42s 000ms | July 28, 2009 |
| Swimming | 200 Freestyle SCM | de | Biedermann Paul | 00h 01m 39s 370ms | November 15, 2009 |
| Swimming | 200 Medley LCM | us | Lochte Ryan | 00h 01m 54s 000ms | July 28, 2011 |
| Swimming | 200 Medley SCM | us | Lochte Ryan | 00h 01m 49s 630ms | December 14, 2012 |
| Swimming | 400 Freestyle LCM | de | Biedermann Paul | 00h 03m 40s 070ms | July 26, 2009 |
| Swimming | 400 Freestyle SCM | fr | Agnel Yannick | 00h 03m 32s 250ms | November 15, 2012 |
| Swimming | 400 Medley LCM | us | Phelps Michael | 00h 04m 03s 840ms | August 10, 2008 |
| Swimming | 400 Medley SCM | us | Lochte Ryan | 00h 03m 55s 500ms | December 16, 2010 |
| Swimming | 4x100 Freestyle Relay LCM | us | Michael Phelps, Garrett Weber-Gale, Cullen Jones, Jason Lezak | 00h 03m 08s 240ms | August 11, 2008 |
| Swimming | 4x100 Freestyle Relay SCM | us | Caeleb Dressel, Blake Pieroni, Michael Chadwick, Ryan Held | 00h 03m 03s 030ms | December 11, 2018 |
| Swimming | 4x100 Medley Relay LCM | us | Aaron Peirsol, Eric Shanteau, Michael Phelps, David Walters | 00h 03m 27s 280ms | August 2, 2009 |
| Swimming | 4x100 Medley Relay SCM | ru | Stanislav Donets, Sergey Geybel, Yevgeny Korotyshkin, Danila Izotov | 00h 03m 19s 160ms | December 20, 2009 |
| Swimming | 4x200 Freestyle Relay LCM | us | Michael Phelps, Ricky Berens, David Walters, Ryan Lochte | 00h 06m 58s 550ms | July 31, 2009 |
| Swimming | 4x200 Freestyle Relay SCM | br | Luiz Altamir Melo, Fernando Scheffer, Leonardo Coelho Santos, Breno Correia | 00h 06m 46s 810ms | December 14, 2018 |
| Swimming | 4x50 Freestyle Relay SCM | us | Caeleb Dressel, Ryan Held, Jack Conger, Michael Chadwick | 00h 01m 21s 800ms | December 14, 2018 |
| Swimming | 4x50 Medley Relay SCM | ru | Kliment Kolesnikov, Kirill Prigoda, Aleksandr Popkov, Vladimir Morozov | 00h 01m 30s 440ms | December 17, 2017 |
| Swimming | 50 Backstroke LCM | ru | Kolesnikov Kliment | 00h 00m 24s 000ms | August 4, 2018 |
| Swimming | 50 Backstroke SCM | fr | Manaudou Florent | 00h 00m 22s 220ms | December 6, 2014 |
| Swimming | 50 Breaststroke LCM | gb | Peaty Adam | 00h 00m 25s 950ms | July 25, 2017 |
| Swimming | 50 Breaststroke SCM | za | Van Der Burgh Cameron | 00h 00m 25s 250ms | November 14, 2009 |
| Swimming | 50 Butterfly LCM | ua | Govorov Andrii | 00h 00m 22s 270ms | July 1, 2018 |
| Swimming | 50 Butterfly SCM | br | Santos Nicholas | 00h 00m 21s 750ms | October 6, 2018 |
| Swimming | 50 Freestyle LCM | br | Cielo Filho Cesar | 00h 00m 20s 910ms | December 18, 2009 |
| Swimming | 50 Freestyle SCM | fr | Manaudou Florent | 00h 00m 20s 260ms | December 5, 2014 |
| Swimming | 800 Freestyle LCM | cn | Zhang Lin | 00h 07m 32s 120ms | July 29, 2009 |
| Swimming | 800 Freestyle SCM | au | Hackett Grant | 00h 07m 23s 420ms | July 20, 2008 |
| Track Cycling | 1 km time trial | fr | François Pervis | 00h 00m 56s 303ms | 7 December 2013 |
| Track Cycling | 4000 m individual pursuit | us | Ashton Lambie | 00h 04m 05s 423ms | 7 September 2019 |
| Track Cycling | 4000 m team pursuit | au | Sam Welsford, Kelland O'Brien, Leigh Howard, Alex Porter | 00h 03m 48s 012ms | 28 February 2019 |
| Track Cycling | Flying 200 m time trial | tt | Nicholas Paul | 00h 00m 09s 100ms | September 6, 2019 |
| Track Cycling | Flying 500 m time trial | gb | Chris Hoy | 00h 00m 24s 758ms | May 13, 2007 |
| Track Cycling | Hour record | be | Victor Campenaerts | 55,089 (m) | 16 April 2019 |
| Track Cycling | Hour record (UCI best human effort) | gb | Chris Boardman | 56,375 (m) | 7 September 1996 |
| Track Cycling | Team sprint (1) | de | Rene Enders, Robert Förstemann, Joachim Eilers | 00h 00m 41s 871ms | 5 December 2013 |