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Sports > Other Sports > International Sports > Track and Field

World Indoor Records—Men

(Through Sept. 6, 2006)

Event	Record	Holder	Home country	Where made	Date
Running
50 m	0:05.56	Donovan Bailey	Canada	Reno, Nev.	Feb. 9, 1996
60 m	0:06.39	Maurice Greene	United States	Madrid, Spain	Feb. 3, 1998
	0:06.39	Maurice Greene	United States	Atlanta, Ga.	March 3, 2001
200 m	0:19.92	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	Liévin, France	Feb. 18, 1996
400 m	0:44.57	Kerron Clement	United States	Fayetteville, Ark.	March 12, 2005
800 m	1:42.67	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	Paris, France	March 9, 1997
1,000 m	2:14.96	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	Birmingham, England	Feb. 20, 2000
1,500 m	3:31.18	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	Stuttgart, Germany	Feb. 2, 1997
1 mile	3:48.45	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	Ghent, Belgium	Feb. 12, 1997
3,000 m	7:24.90	Daniel Komen	Kenya	Budapest, Hungary	Feb. 6, 1998
5,000 m	12:49.60	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	Birmingham, England	Feb. 20, 2004
5,000 m race walking	18:07.08	Mikhail Shchennikov	Russia	Moscow, Russia	Feb. 14, 1995
Hurdles
50 m	0:06.25	Mark McKoy	Canada	Kobe, Japan	March 5, 1986
60 m	0:07.30	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	Sindelfingen, Germany	March 6, 1994
Relay races
800 m (4 × 200)	1:22.11	Great Britain & Northern Ireland	Great Britain	Glasgow, Scotland	March 3, 1991
1,600 m (4 × 400)	3:02.83	National Team	United States	Maebashi, Japan	March 7, 1999
3,200 m (4 × 800)	7:13.94	Global Athletics & Marketing	United States	Boston, Mass.	Feb. 6, 2000
Field events
High jump	2.43 m	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	Budapest, Hungary	March 4, 1989
Pole vault	6.15 m	Sergey Bubka	Ukraine	Donetsk, Ukraine	Feb. 21, 1993
Long jump	8.79 m	Carl Lewis	United States	New York, N.Y.	Jan. 27, 1984
Triple jump	17.83 m	Aliecer Urrutia	Cuba	Sindelfingen, Germany	March 1, 1997
	17.83 m	Christian Olsson	Sweden	Budapest, Hungary	March 7, 2004
Shot-put	22.66 m	Randy Barnes	United States	Los Angeles, Calif.	Jan. 20, 1989
Heptathlon	6,476 pts	Dan O'Brien	United States	Toronto, Canada	March 14, 1993

Source: IAAF.

World Indoor Records—Women

(Through Sept. 6, 2006)

Event	Record	Holder	Home country	Where made	Date
Running
50 m	0:05.96	Irina Privalova	Russia	Madrid, Spain	Feb. 9, 1995
60 m	0:06.92	Irina Privalova	Russia	Madrid, Spain	Feb. 11, 1993
	0:06.92	Irina Privalova	Russia	Madrid, Spain	Feb. 9, 1995
200 m	0:21.87	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	Liévin, France	Feb. 13, 1993
400 m	0:49.59	Jarmila Kratochvílová	Czechoslovakia	Milan, Italy	March 7, 1982
800 m	1:55.82	Jolanda Ceplak	Slovak Republic	Vienna, Austria	March 3, 2002
1,000 m	2:30.94	Maria de Lurdes Mutola	Mozambique	Stockholm, Sweden	Feb. 25, 1999
1,500 m	3:58.28	Yelena Soboleva	Russia	Moscow, Russia	Feb. 18, 2006
1 mile	4:17.14	Doina Melinte	Romania	East Rutherford, N.J.	Feb. 9, 1990
3,000 m	8:27.86	Liliya Shobukhova	Russia	Moscow, Russia	Feb. 17, 2006
5,000 m	14:32.93	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	Boston, Mass.	Jan. 29, 2005
3,000 m race walking	11:40.33	Claudia Stef	Romania	Bucharest, Romania	Jan. 30, 1999
Hurdles
50 m	0:06.58	Cornelia Oschkenat	East Germany	Berlin, Germany	Feb. 20, 1988
60 m	0:07.69	Ludmila Engquist	Soviet Union	Chelyabinsk, Russia	Feb. 4, 1990
Relay races
800 m (4 × 200)	1:32.41	National Team	Russia	Glasgow, Scotland	Jan. 29, 2005
1,600 m (4 × 400)	3:23.37	National Team	Russia	Glasgow, Scotland	Jan. 28, 2006
3,200 m (4 × 800)	8:18.71	National Team	Russia	Moscow, Russia	Feb. 4, 1994
Field events
High jump	2.08 m	Kajsa Bergqvist	Sweden	Arndstadt, Germany	Feb. 4, 2006
Pole vault	4.91 m	Yelena Isinbayeva	Russia	Donetsk, Ukraine	Feb. 12, 2006
Long jump	7.37 m	Heike Drechsler	East Germany	Vienna, Austria	Feb. 13, 1988
Triple jump	15.36 m	Tatyana Lebedeva	Russia	Budapest, Hungary	March 6, 2004
Shot-put	22.50 m	Helena Fibingerová	Czechoslovakia	Jablonec, Czechoslovakia	Feb. 19, 1977
Pentathlon	4,991 pts.	Irina Belova	Unified Team	Berlin, Germany	Feb. 15, 1992