This is a collection of videos of all men's world records for the distances contested in IAAF world championships. Excluding relays but including some extra spectacular ones. Women's records can be seen in a
separate post.
The peak of Usain Bolt
The 100m and 200m records were set by Usain Bolt at the 2009 world championships at in .
Front runners
The 400m and 800m records are somewhat similar. They were both set in Olympic finals by front running the whole way. Wayde van Niekerk started in lane 8 of in the -16 games in and never had anyone in sight. Similarly, David Rudisha went straight to the front in the 2012 Olympics in , dragging the entire field to spectacular times.
Noah Ngeny
Ngeny had a short but impressive career. The highlights includes beating Hicham El Guerrouj to get the 1500m gold medal in the 2000 Olympics in and setting the world record for 1000m in . He later suffered an unfortunate car accident after which he never performed on the highest level again.
Hicham El Guerrouj
El Guerrouj was the king of middle distance running at the turn of the millenium.
He often chased fast times and set many world records including the 1500m in -98, the mile in -99 in and the 2000m in -99 in .
Daniel Komen
Komen had like his Kenyan compatriot Ngeny a short career but managed to set one of the most impressive world records in athletics. No one has ever been close to the 3000m time he set in -96 in the same meet in where Ngeny set his 1000m record in -99.
Joshua Cheptegei
With the 2020 Olympics being moved to 2021, Joshua Cheptegei made the most of the situation and went all in to get the records in the 5000m and the 10 000m that were held by Kenenisa Bekele. Two tries, at in and at in , resulted in two world records.
One more for Uganda
In 2021 in , Jacob Kiplimo took 1 second off of the old record, setting a new world record of 57:31.
Finally for Eliud Kipchoge
Few were surprised when the most consistent marathoner of all time, after running 2:00:25 in the exhibition run of "Breaking 2" in in 2017, managed to set the world record in the marathon in 2018. In 2019, he ran even faster at in , clocking 1:59:40 in another exhibition not confirming to IAAF rules.
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