Beijing, China (AFP) — Current world records in athletics going into the World Championships in Beijing from today through to August 30:

MEN

100 Metres – 9.58, Usain Bolt (JAM) Berlin 16/08/2009

200 Metres – 19.19, Usain Bolt (JAM) Berlin 20/08/2009

400 Metres – 43.18, Michael Johnson (USA) Seville 26/08/1999

800 Metres – 1:40.91, David Rudisha (KEN) London 09/08/2012

1,500 Metres – 3:26.00, Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) Rome 14/07/1998

5,000 Metres – 12:37.35, Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) Hengelo 31/05/2004

10,000 Metres – 26:17.53, Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) Brussels 26/08/2005

Marathon – 2:03.38, Patrick Musyoki (KEN) Berlin 25/09/2011

3,000 Metres Steeplechase – 7:53.63, Saif Saaeed Shaheen (QAT) Brussels 03/09/2004

110 Metres Hurdles – 12.80, Aries Merritt (USA) Brussels 07.09/2012

400 Metres Hurdles – 46.78, Kevin Young (USA) Barcelona 06/08/1992

High Jump – 2.45m, Javier Sotomayor (CUB) Salamanca 27/07/1993

Pole Vault – 6.14m, Sergey Bubka (UKR) Sestriere 31/07/1994

Long Jump – 8.95m, Mike Powell (USA) Tokyo 30/08/1991

Triple Jump – 18.29m, Jonathan Edwards (GBR) Gothenburg 07/08/1995

Shot Put – 23.12m, Randy Barnes (USA) Westwood 20/05/1990

Discus Throw – 74.08m, Jurgen Schult (GDR) Neubrandenburg 06/06/1986

Hammer Throw – 86.74m, Yuriy Sedykh (USSR) Stuttgart 30/08/1986

Javelin Throw – 98.48m, Jan Zelezny (CZE) Jena 25/05/1996

Decathlon – 9,039pts, Ashton Eaton (USA) Eugene 23/06/2012

20 Kilometres Walk – 1:16.36, Yusuke Suzuki (JPN) Nomi 15/03/15

50 Kilometres Walk – 3:34:14, Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS) Cheboksary 11/05/2008

4×100 Metres Relay – 36.84, Jamaica (JAM) London 11/08/2012 (Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Yohan Blake, Usain Bolt)

4×400 Metres Relay – 2:54.29, United States (USA) Stuttgart 22/08/1993 (Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Harry Reynolds, Michael Johnson)

WOMEN

100 Metres – 10.49, Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) Indianapolis 16/07/1988

200 Metres – 21.34, Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) Seoul 29/09/1988

400 Metres – 47.60, Marita Koch (GDR) Canberra 06/10/1985

800 Metres – 1:53.28, Jarmila Kratochvilova (CZE) Munich 26/07/1983

1,500 Metres – 3:50.07, Genzebe Dibaba (ETH) Monaco 17/07/15

5,000 Metres – 14:11.15, Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH) Oslo 06/06/2008

10,000 Metres – 29:31.78, Junxia Wang (CHN) Beijing 08/09/1993

Marathon – 2:15:25, Paula Radcliffe (GBR) London 13/04/2003

3,000 Metres Steeplechase – 8:58.81, Gulnara Galkina (RUS) Beijing 17/08/2008

100 Metres Hurdles – 12.21, Yordanka Donkova (BUL) Stara Zagora 20/08/1988

400 Metres Hurdles – 52.34, Yuliya Pechenkina (RUS) Tula 08/08/2003

High Jump – 2.09m, Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Rome 30/08/1987

Pole Vault – 5.06m, Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS) Zurich 28/08/2009

Long Jump – 7.52m, Galina Chistyakova (USSR) Leningrad 11/06/1988

Triple Jump – 15.50m, Inessa Kravets (UKR) Gothenburg 10/08/1995

Shot Put – 22.63m, Natalya Lisovskaya (USSR) Moscow 07/06/1987

Discus – 76.80m, Gabriele Reinsch (GDR) Neubrandenburg 09/07/1988

Hammer – 81.08m, Anita Wlodarczyk (POL) Wladyslawowo 01/08/15

Javelin – 72.28m, Barbora Spotakova (CZE) Stuttgart 13/09/2008

Heptathlon – 7,291pts, Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) Seoul 24/09/1988

20 Kilometres Walk – 1:24.38, Liu Hong (CHN) La Coruna 06/06/15

4×100 Metres Relay – 40.82, United States (USA) London 10/08/2012 (Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight, Carmelita Jeter)

4×400 Metres Relay – 3:15.17, Soviet Union (USSR) Seoul 01/10/1988 (Olga V.Nazarova, Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Vladykina-Bryzgina, Mariya Kulchunova-Pinigina)