![]() ![]() The fastest 3000m steeplechaser in history is Saif Saaeed Shaheen. What is the current 3000m steeplechase world record? Gidey, the world record holder over the half marathon too, set the new mark of 29:01.03 at the Ethiopian Olympics Trials in Hengelo in June 2021. She also shattered the women’s 10,000m world record just two days after Sifan Hassan had a lowered it to 29:06.32. On the same day in October 2020 in Valencia, his NN Running teammate Letesenbet Gidey added a second world record to her name with her 14:06.62 in the women’s 5000m. Three months later, he smashed another of Bekele’s world record by six seconds with his 10,000m time of 26:11.00. The Ugandan lowered Kenenisa Bekele's 5000m mark to 12:35.36 in Monaco. ![]() Joshua Cheptegei became the first man to complete the 5000m in less than 12 minutes 37 seconds in August 2020. These are among the newest world records in distance running. Who holds the 5000m and 10,000m world records? The Ethiopian lowered Qu Yunxia’s time of 3:50.46 from 1993, which was considered one of the most difficult track world records to break at that time. Genzebe Dibaba’s extraordinary 3:50.07 in the women's 1500m in Monaco in 2015, earned her the title of world record holder. The Moroccan, who broke six world records in his career, ran a breath-taking race Rome in 1999 to set the new mark of 3:26.00. The current world record-holder for the men’s 1500m is Hicham El Guerrouj. Kenyan David Rudisha led from break to lower his 800m world record to 1:40.91 at the 2012 London Olympics. Today, only one athlete in Kenya’s Pamela Jelimo has come within a second of that 1:53.28 world record from Munich. The longest-standing track world record is the women’s 800m set by Jarmila Kratochvilova, competing then for Czechoslovakia in 1983. The only one that still stands is her 400m mark of 47.60s set in October 1985. Germany's Marita Koch held 16 outdoor world records during her career. Running from lane eight, Wayde van Niekerk of South Africa won the Olympic 400m gold medal at the Rio 2016 Games in 43.03s, lowering a 17-year-old world record. READ MORE: Usain Bolt’s records: best strikes from the Lightning Bolt Who are the fastest 400m runners? The American's times of 10.49s in the women’s 100m and 21.34s in 200m have stood since 1988. The track legend, who dominated the sprints for about 15 years, also owns the 200m world record of 19.19 from the same event.Īnother double world record holder is Florence Griffith-Joyner. The Jamaican became the first man to run the men's 100m in less than 9.6 seconds with his 9.58 second effort at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. The fastest man in history is Usain Bolt. ![]()
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