What is the difference between a world record and an Olympic record? Records and heroes in the history of the Winter Olympic Games

World biathlon legend

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Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen is a true legend of modern sports. He is the most decorated athlete in the history of the Winter Olympics. He has 13 medals, eight of which are gold. The Norwegian also shares the record for the most Winter Olympics champion titles with skier Björn Deli.

In addition, the husband of Belarusian biathlete Daria Domracheva, after the Games in Salt Lake City, became the world's only absolute Olympic champion in biathlon.

By the way, Bjoerndalen has every chance to go to Pyeongchang. His participation will be announced soon.

Record holder from Russia

Russian luger Albert Demchenko holds the record for the number of participations in the Olympics. He competed at seven Games in a row (1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014). However, he shares this achievement with the Japanese ski jumper Noriaki Kasai, who also repeated this record in Sochi.

But not everything worked out so perfectly in Demchenko’s career. The luger was involved in a big doping scandal that broke out last year. As a result, the International Olympic Committee found him guilty of violating anti-doping rules and stripped the Russian of two silver medals at the Sochi Games. He was also banned for life from participating in the Olympic Games.

Tikhonov's record

Soviet biathlete, four-time Olympic champion, Olympic silver medalist, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Alexander Tikhonov is also a record holder. He won gold medals at four Olympics in a row. It was even included in the Guinness Book of Records.

Until 2002, no one managed to break another of his records. He was the only one in biathlon who managed to win the most gold.

Oldest Olympic medalist

Back in 1924 (this date is considered the start of the Winter Olympic Games), Swedish curler Carl August Kronlund went down in history as the oldest medalist. He was 59 years and 155 days old when he won silver with the team.

Youngest Olympic medalist

The youngest medalist in the history of the White Olympics was the athlete from South Korea, Yun Mi Kim. In 1994, at the Olympic Games in the Norwegian city of Lillihammer, the short speed skater won Olympic gold. At that time she was only 13 years and 83 days old.

Longest Olympic torch relay

The Olympic torch relay before the Games in Sochi broke all records and became the longest in the history of the competition. The Olympic flame traveled a total of 65 thousand kilometers, and about 14 thousand people became honorary torchbearers.

True, another record was recorded, which one can hardly be proud of. For the first time in history, the flame went out more than 100 times during the entire relay...

TV presenter Vladimir Pozner.

Record number of Olympic participants

In 1994, sports delegations from 67 countries took part in the Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer (Norway). 1,737 athletes submitted applications. This became a record in the entire history of the Games.

The capital of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, will host the Summer Olympic Games in 2016. On the eve of this bright event, we decided to remember the mind-blowing, funny, and sometimes completely crazy moments that happened at the main sports competitions throughout the history of games.

Olympic Games and Rugby

In 1924, during the last Olympic Rugby Games held, the USA defeated France 17:3. French fans were furious and attacked the US team's substitutes. The judge was forced to resort to police protection. The crowd screamed and whistled as the medals were presented.

A year later, the International Olympic Committee elected a new president who, unlike his predecessor, was not fond of rugby, and therefore excluded this sport from the Olympic program. Rugby will return to the Olympics in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.

Abebe Bikila's record marathon

The reserve marathon runner was brought into the main team in 1960 at the last minute due to an injury to a teammate. Nobody took Abebe Bikila seriously, but the relatively unknown marathon runner broke the world record, and he covered the entire distance barefoot.

The reason for this decision was simple - his only pair of sneakers had worn out during training. Four years later, Bikila won another gold medal and set another world record at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

Marathon runner on a whim

Czech runner Emil Zatopek won the 5,000 and 10,000 meter races at the Helsinki Olympics (1952). After that, he decided to take part in the marathon, even though he didn't know the rules. During the race, Zatopek carefully watched the man who was predicted to be the favorite and tried to understand how to behave. He also did not drink anything from the tables along the way, since he did not know that marathon runners were allowed to drink soft drinks. Despite everything, Zatopek won the marathon.

Bob Beamon's Giant Leap

During the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, American athlete Bob Beamon competed in the long jump. He, of course, wanted to win a medal, but he never expected that he would break a world record in the process. Bob managed to jump a whopping 8.90 meters, surpassing the previous record by 55 centimeters. The electronic recorder was only designed for 8.70 meters, so the judges had to use a regular tape measure to measure the jump.

Gallant Henry Pierce

The extremely talented rower Henry Bobby Pierce was the clear favorite to win the 1928 Olympics. In the middle of the race, a sudden obstacle appeared in the way of Pierce's boat - a duck with ducklings. The athlete stopped to let a family of ducks pass, which did not stop him from overtaking all competitors.

Gallstones Kipa Keino

Kipchoge Keino, while competing at the 1968 Olympics, fainted during the 10,000-meter race. The cause was severe pain from gallstones. However, the athlete woke up, stood up and completed the race. Although doctors told him not to compete any further, Kip sneaked out of his hotel and took a bus to the stadium to take part in the 1500m race.

After the bus got stuck in traffic, he ran all the way to the stadium, making it right to the start. The most amazing thing in this story is that Kip managed not only to win the race, but also set an Olympic record.

Missing Olympic flag

The world's first Olympic flag went missing after the end of the Antwerp Olympics in 1920. For 77 years, no one knew what happened to the flag. In 1997, during an interview with Haig Priest, the oldest living Olympic medalist at the time, Haig was told that the flag was missing.

The former diver shocked a reporter (and the world) by revealing that the flag was kept at the bottom of his old suitcase. It turns out that, at the encouragement of his teammate at the Olympics, Haig climbed the flagpole and stole the flag.

1904 Olympic Marathon

The Olympic Marathon at the 1904 St. Louis Games was probably the most extreme example of Olympic farce in history. 32 athletes took to the start line, but many soon dropped out of the race because they inhaled dust along the way. One of the athletes almost died during the race from a hemorrhage in the stomach. Another athlete snacked on an apple along the way, which turned out to be rotten. He retired from the race due to stomach cramps.

The winner was not much luckier - he was literally in agony in the last kilometers, because before the race the coach injected him with a small dose of the rat poison strychnine as a stimulant (doping was not prohibited at that time). The South African runner, who managed to finish ninth, was chased along the way by a pack of wild dogs. Only 18 of the 32 runners managed to complete the marathon. And one of the athletes, John Lortz, even drove a 14 km distance in a car.

Australian speed skater Stephen Bradbury

Australian speed skater Stephen Bradbury won a medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City against all odds. Before this, he was plagued by a series of catastrophic failures. At the 1994 Winter Olympics, Bradbury's hip was pierced by another athlete's skate, after which he lost a lot of blood. In 2000, during training, a speed skater crashed into the side and broke his neck.

In 2002, he was last and far behind the rest of the participants. However, a miracle happened (at least for him). The rest of the athletes collided and got hit. So Bradbury, after a series of failures, managed to win gold.

Shun Fujimoto's Broken Knee

Before the Montreal Olympics in 1976, the Japanese won the men's artistic gymnastics competition four times. In Montreal, they won their 5th gold medal in a row, but it was done truly heroically. Gymnast Shun Fujimoto was injured during the very beginning of his performance, but instead of going to the doctors, he gritted his teeth and continued performing as if nothing had happened.

After breaking several world records during his performance and securing Team Japan's gold medal, Shun took his leave and limped off stage. The doctors were shocked - the gymnast had a fractured kneecap.

As you know, the main Olympic motto is “faster, higher, stronger!” First uttered by the French priest Henri Didon and taken up by the founder of the modern Olympic movement, Pierre de Coubertin, it became a reflection of the main goal of all athletes in the world.

Perhaps these three words are perfectly applicable to athletics. Judge for yourself: faster - about running, higher - about jumping, stronger - about throwing (and pushing). And there is a category of people in this sport that corresponds to this motto to the maximum. We are talking about world record holders. And although the IAAF may deprive some of them of this status (), their names are forever inscribed in history.

On the eve of the World Championships in London, XSPORT decided to recall the most famous world records in athletics. Since it is not possible to talk about everyone due to the huge number of disciplines in the “queen of sports,” we decided to highlight the record breaking records, so we created several nominations. The only note is that our competition program included achievements only in those events that are included in the program of the Olympic Games and World Cups (in London, for the first time in the history of the World Championships, a 50 km walking competition among women will be held, so we are also considering this record).

YOUNGEST RECORD

Anita Wlodarczyk

Here our prize goes to the Polish hammer thrower Anita Wlodarczyk. In total, she broke the world record 6 times, and her last achievement dates back to August 28, 2016. A week after the closing of the Olympic Games in Rio, at which the athlete, by the way, also Wlodarczyk in her native Warsaw at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial. The Polish woman remains the only girl who managed to clear the 80-meter mark. And what’s most interesting is that at the same Games in Rio, her result was 4 meters further than that of Dilshod Nazarov, the Olympic champion among men.

The youngest also had every chance of becoming a record Ruth Jebet. On August 27, at the Diamond League stage in Paris, an athlete from Bahrain surpassed the achievement of Gulnara Galkina in steeplechase. However, just two days later, Wlodarczyk set her next record. At the World Championships in London, Jebet has a chance to get even with Anita, since her final will be 4 days later.

OLDEST RECORD

Jarmila Kratokhvilova (in first position)

Jarmila Kratokhvilova reached the peak of her career only at the age of 32. An athlete from the now defunct country of Czechoslovakia remained for a long time in the shadow of her rivals from the GDR at her favorite distance of 400 meters. In 1983, she came to a tournament in Munich, where she entered the 800-meter race. Jarmila ran two laps around the stadium in a record 1:53:28.

Two weeks later, Kratokhvilova competed at the first ever World Athletics Championships, which was hosted by Helsinki. In Finland, the Czech, despite an incredibly busy schedule, won gold in both the 400-meter and 800-meter events. Moreover, in the first event she again broke the world record, becoming the first athlete to run under 48 seconds (47.99). And although Marita Koch surpassed that achievement two years later (47.60 seconds), the 800-meter record has not been surpassed by anyone for 34 years, making it the longest standing.

FASTEST RECORD

Usain Bolt

At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin Usain Bolt ran the 100-meter dash in 9.58 seconds. The very next day, experts published data on the speed that Lightning developed. He covered the 60-80 meter section in 1.61 seconds, accelerating in this segment to 44.72 km/h. No one has ever run faster.

SLOWEST RECORD

Ines Enriquez (foreground)

As we have already said, the women's 50 km walk will make its debut at the world championships. This view will be the longest in London. Judge for yourself - the world record for a distance that approximately corresponds to the length of Kyiv from north to south is 4 hours 08 minutes 26 seconds. Its author is Ines Enriquez from Portugal. She established her achievement in the village of Porto de Mos in her homeland. Its average speed was 12 km/h.

HIGHEST RECORD

Sergey Bubka and Renaud Lavillenie

Since we agreed to consider only Olympic disciplines, our championship in this category goes to Sergey Bubka. Exactly 23 years ago, in the Italian highlands, a Ukrainian set his last world record in the pole vault - 6 m 14 cm. A year earlier in Donetsk, the Olympic champion of Seoul cleared the bar at a height of 6 m 15 cm. However, the Pole Stars tournament, which, as is known , always took place at the Druzhba Sports Palace, that is, indoors, but at the Games and World Championships they compete outdoors.

Bubka's Donetsk record was broken in 2014 Renault Lavillenie. At the same “Pole Stars” tournament and in front of Sergei Nazarovich himself, the Frenchman conquered 6.16 m. But let’s make a reservation once again, it was indoors. But Lavillenie’s personal best in stadiums is only 6.05 m.

Well, one last thing about this nomination. In 1991, Bubka won the last world championship gold as part of the USSR national team (the athlete won the world championships for Ukraine three more times). In Tokyo, he won with a modest result of 5.95 m. But thanks to computers, it was possible to establish that in his winning attempt he jumped with such a margin that he would have conquered the bar at a height of 6.37 m.

LONGEST RECORD

Uwe Hohn and Jan Zelezny

Here we immediately need to tell the background story. In the mid-1980s, the IAAF had to redesign the men's javelin. The center of gravity was shifted forward, causing the projectile to descend earlier than the older version with a center of gravity in the middle. The culprit of such changes was Uwe Hohn. In 1984, an athlete from the GDR threw the javelin 104.80 m, just two meters from the edge of the field. Such long-distance attempts endangered the safety of other athletes who were on the treadmill.

The projectile was changed, but several years passed, and the IAAF again began to think about the safety of this discipline. On May 25, 1996, at a competition in the German city of Jena, an outstanding Czech Jan Zelezny threw the javelin at 98.48 m. It is this achievement that is listed as the official world record, however, with the note “according to the new rules.” The farthest is Uwe Hohn's attempt at 104.80 meters.

THE MOST SENSATIONAL RECORD

This is certainly the most subjective nomination in our ranking. And the championship here goes to the record set at the Olympic Games in Rio. The men's 400m final had no clear favorite. Before the start Kirani James, Lashawn Merritt And Weide van Niekerk were equally considered as contenders for gold. However, what the latter did became a real sensation. The South African produced a phenomenal run that lasted 17 years. Moreover, van Niekerk immediately took 15 hundredths from the result of the famous American. And in general, he almost ran out of 43 seconds - the chronometers recorded a result of 43.03 seconds.

Vaide is generally a unique athlete. He is the only athlete in history to run under 10 seconds in the 100m (9.98 seconds), under 20 seconds in the 200m (19.84 seconds) and under 44 seconds in the 400m. It’s funny that the athlete himself doesn’t really like the last distance. He once stated that...

Weide van Niekerk in front of his achievement

THE MOST AFFECTING RECORD

Kendra Harrison failed to qualify for the 2016 Olympics in Rio in the 100m hurdles. At the national qualifying tournament in the USA, the American showed only the fourth result. There were only three trips to Brazil. This was a real blow for the athlete. She was able to take out all her anger at the Diamond League stage in London, which took place a month before the 2016 Games. Harrison not only outperformed her teammates, but also. Kendra covered the distance in 12.20 seconds. But I still didn’t go to Brazil.

THE MOST TRAGIC RECORD

It's not often that world records are set at small local tournaments. But the achievement of the American Florence Griffith-Joyner just one of those. On one July day in 1988, at the Olympic qualifying competitions held in Indianapolis, she ran 100 meters in 10.49 seconds and broke the world record. And she did it at the 1/4 final stage. On the same day, but a little earlier, Florence covered the same distance in 10.60 seconds. But that time, which at that time was the fastest in history, was not counted as a record due to a strong tailwind. Interestingly, already in the quarterfinals, Griffith-Joyner was running in almost still air.

At the 1988 Games in Seoul, for which the athlete successfully qualified, she won three gold medals - in the 100-meter, 200-meter and 4x100-meter relay. Moreover, she covered 200 meters with a world record, which also holds to this day (21.34 seconds).

What made Griffith-Joyner's achievements tragic was her subsequent fate. Already in 1989, the athlete left professional sports at the peak of her fame. Even before this event, many colleagues and experts said that Florence was taking doping, and after the sudden end of her career, these conversations became more frequent. In 1990, the athlete began to have health problems and suffered heart attacks. Griffith-Joyner's sudden death at age 38 only added to the suspicion. However, her name is still on the list of world record holders. Moreover, in those sports that are considered elite in athletics.

Florence Griffith-Joyner after success at the Seoul Olympics

RECORD BREAKER

Another nomination in which the palm goes to Sergey Bubka. The Ukrainian pole vaulter became the first to clear the 6-meter bar. In total, the current NOC president has broken world records 35 times. And of course you can complain that each time he added one centimeter to the previous achievement. But just think about this number. For comparison, Elena Isinbaeva, who also pole vaulted, stopped at 20 world records.

OUR RECORD BREAKERS

Sergey Bubka, Inessa Kravets, Yuri Sedykh

Another nomination for Sergei Bubka. But here he must share the prize with two more colleagues. We talked a lot about the achievement of a pole vaulter above, but about Inessa Kravets haven't spoken yet. The athlete, born in Dnepr, specialized in the triple jump - the event that brought our country three Olympic awards (1 gold and 2 bronze). Kravets set her world record at the World Championships in Gothenburg in 1995. In the third attempt of the final, she landed at 15.50 meters with a tailwind of 0.9 m/s. A year later, Inessa became the first woman to win Olympic gold in the triple jump.

Partly ours can be considered Yuri Sedykh. A native of the city of Novocherkassk, Rostov region, he is a graduate of the Kyiv hammer throwing school. In 1986, at the European Championships, he sent the projectile to 86.74 m, and since then no one has surpassed the achievement of the two-time world champion.

BONUS RECORD

Here we just want to tell a beautiful story associated with the name Bob Beamon. His record in the long jump ceased to be relevant in 1991. However, at the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968, he shocked the whole world. The American took a run and landed at 8.90 meters (Mike Powell's current highest achievement is only 5 cm further). He broke the previous world record by as much as 55 cm. Lynn Davis, defending his Olympic title, approached Beamon and said: “You destroyed this discipline.”

Bob Beamon at the Mexico City Olympics

When the stadium announcer announced the numbers, the culprit himself fell to his knees, covered his face with his hands and could not get up without help. It is interesting that the automatic range meters that existed at that time were not designed for such a result, and the distance had to be measured manually. After that event, a new adjective beamonesque appeared in the English language, which means some unthinkable feat.

Scientists have found explanations for Beamon's record. Firstly, the competition took place at a significant altitude above sea level, which, due to the characteristics of the air, contributed to long jumps. After that, elite level tournaments were not held at such a high level. Secondly, Bob was helped by a strong tailwind, and its strength was the maximum permissible - about 2 m/s. Well, after the American’s jump there was a heavy downpour, which created not the most favorable conditions for the rest of the participants. However, all these factors do not make Binom’s record any less legendary.

In recent years, breaking world records has become commonplace. For example, in 2016 this was done five times. Often the highest achievements are celebrated at major tournaments. At the Olympic Games of different years, nine current world records were set, and at the World Championships - eight. Therefore, at the upcoming World Cup in London, we may well see the WR mark next to some result. Moreover, 13 world record holders will perform in London.

Current record holders who will compete at the 2017 World Championships:

• Usain Bolt, Jamaica (100 m – 9.58 s, 200 m – 19.19 s),
• Weide van Niekerk, South Africa (400 m – 43.03),
• Aris Merritt, USA (110 m/b – 12.80),
• Yoann Dini, France (50 km walk – 3:32.33),
• Kendra Harrison, USA (100m s/b – 12.20 s),
• Genzebe Dibaba, Ethiopia (1500m - 3:50.07),
• Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopia (5000 m – 14:11.15),
• Almaz Ayana, Ethiopia (10,000 m – 29:17.45),
• Ruth Jebet, Bahrain (3000m steeplechase – 8:52.78),
• Liu Hong, China (20 km walk – 1:24.38),
• Ines Henriques, Portugal (50 km walk – 4:08.26),
• Anita Wlodarczyk, Poland (hammer throw – 82.98 m),
• Barbora Spotakova, Czech Republic (javelin throw - 72.28 m).

All photos in the material are taken from GETTY IMAGES

Marathon – 2:03.38 – Patrick Makau (Kenya)

The legend about the appearance of the marathon says that the Greek warrior Pheidippides ran from the site of the battle of Marathon to Athens with the speed of an arrow fired from a bow. However, he would still be unlikely to compete with modern marathon running professionals. Kenyan Patrick Makau didn't have good news for the spectators waiting for him at the finish line of the 2011 Berlin Marathon, but the athlete tried his best. He broke away from his closest pursuers, who, by the way, were his compatriots, by four minutes, but, most importantly, crossed the finish line, setting a record time for completing the distance - 2:03.38, improving by 21 seconds the achievement of Haile Gebrselassie from Ethiopia, set at the same Berlin Marathon, but three years earlier.

Run, 800 m – 1:40.91 – David Rudisha (Kenya)

Kenya is famous for its endurance runners, but of course it also boasts guys like David Rudisha, an 800m specialist. In 2010, the 22-year-old athlete won the World Cup and the African Championship, simultaneously twice updating the world record, which previously belonged to the Dane Wilson Kipketer and stood for 13 years. However, Rudisha did not stop there; his cherished desire was to win the Olympic Games, and in August 2012, David made his dream come true. It was as if he had no opponents in the final, and Rudisha, without any visible effort, won the gold medal, setting a new world record of 1:40.91. At the same time, it seems that even such an achievement is not the limit for the Kenyan, and hardly anyone will be surprised when the athlete is able to improve the result shown at the Olympics one more time or two.

Running, 3000 m steeplechase – 8.58.81 – Gulnara Samitova-Galkina (Russia)

There are many names of our compatriots in the list of world records in athletics; however, new names appear there infrequently, but each world record holder from Russia is all the more valuable to us. The 3000-meter steeplechase is an old discipline, but it only joined the Olympic family in 2008. And this reunion turned out to be triumphant for the athlete from our country. Gulnara Samitova-Galkina finished in splendid isolation at the Beijing Olympic Stadium, setting a record time of 8:58.81. Over the past five years, only Yulia Zaripova has come close to the record; she currently has the second result in history - 9:05.02 - however, it is still quite far from updating the record set by Gulnara.

High jump – 2.09 m – Stefka Kostadinova (Bulgaria)

Not all world records are updated as often. A number of achievements have remained inviolable since the last century. One of these record pillars in athletics is the achievement of Stefka Kostadinova from Bulgaria, who specialized in the high jump. Throughout her sports career, she had many bright victories, but the athlete probably remembers the 1987 World Championships in Rome with special trepidation. It was there that she set one of the oldest records in athletics today, jumping over the bar set at a height of 2.09. For 26 years, only Blanka Vlasic seriously tried to storm the record of the Bulgarian athlete, but it stood, and it is unknown when the next contender to improve the result will appear.

Pole vault – 6.14 m – Sergey Bubka (Ukraine)

The best world record of the Soviet and Ukrainian track and field athlete Sergei Bubka is not yet 20 years old, but it has already been recorded as “eternal”. If the day ever comes when someone can surpass the incredible 6.14, it will surely be the new record holder's second birthday.

Bubka improved his own record 16 times, and still did not reach his limit. Sergei conquered the height of 6.14 at a competition in Italian Sestriere, and since then no one except the record holder himself has even tried to set the bar even close to this mark. The best after Bubka were Russian Maxim Tarasov and Australian Dmitry Markov, but their result was only 6.05. No one has yet been able to come close to one of the greatest sporting achievements of mankind, and the question of whether this record will ever be broken still remains open.

Pole vault – 5.06 m – (Russia)

Record breakers often have to break through psychological barriers that no one has been able to overcome before them. A striking example of this was demonstrated by one of the most famous Russian athletes -. During her career, she set 28 world records, breaking the bar for the first time at various heights from 4.82 to 5.06. Elena became the first athlete to reach the five-meter mark, and on the day this happened, Isinbayeva was applauded by the whole world. Millions of people applauded the Russian as she won Olympic gold in Beijing with a score of 5.05. A year later, at the Diamond League stage in Zurich, Elena improved her achievement by another centimeter, and since then the mark of 5.06 has been the ultimate dream of all athletes in the jumping sector. However, it is premature to talk about overthrowing the record holder: besides Isinbayeva, only one athlete climbed to the five-meter height - American Jennifer Sur.

Run, 100 m – 9.58 – Usain Bolt (Jamaica)

Of course, we should never forget about the fastest man on the planet – Jamaican Usain Bolt. It makes hearts beat faster and lights a fire in the eyes. His mini-shows on the track receive maximum television ratings. And besides, he also runs very fast. And so fast that no one can keep up with him. Bolt currently holds three world records. At the London Olympics, Usain, as part of the Jamaican 4x100 relay team, won gold with a score of 36.84. His personal bests have not been updated since the World Championships in Berlin, but a crazy 19.19 in the 200m and a simply insane 9.58 in the 100m are the best the athletics world has seen in the new century. We can only hope that Bolt himself decides not to stop there and will be able to improve his amazing records a little more.

Athletics- “queen of sports.” We are talking about one of the first sports to be included in the Olympic Games program. This is the most multifaceted and one of the most difficult sports, including a lot of disciplines, including running, jumping, and all-around. Moreover, each type of sports discipline is divided into separate competitions. For example, running: sprint, marathon, middle distance, hurdles, etc. Jumps: regular jump, running jump, pole vault, triple vault, etc. We propose to consider the most striking records in athletics, which confirm that a person has no limit to development.

10 Most Outstanding Records in Athletics

Usain Bolt

• 100 meters - 9.58 seconds. (16.08.2009)

The current world record was registered in Germany. At the 2009 World Championships, it was choreographed by six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt. The sprinter, originally from Germany, beat his own record by one tenth with a tailwind of 2 meters per second. The Jamaican set the 100m record three times. At the same time, for the last time he traditionally slowed down at the finish line. Probably, in this way, the outstanding athlete decided to leave room for future achievement. Not at all, he was no longer able to shine on the treadmill. However, he still performs. It is worth adding that every world record in athletics significantly replenishes the “treasury” of athletes!

Yelena Isinbayeva

• Elena Isinbaeva - 5.06 m. (08/28/2009)

13 world records! If you look at the chronology, then in recent years Elena Isinbaeva had only one opponent - Elena Isinbaeva! The girl broke her own records 13 times in a row. The last one is 5.06 meters, which the athlete set in Germany. Many experts are confident that the record set by Elena in Zurich will be difficult for girls to break for many years to come. The pride of Russia never said goodbye to her fans after leaving her career. Recently, at the Paris Hilton show, Ivan Urgant provided her with such an opportunity...

Sergey Bubka

• Sergey Bubka - 6.14 m (07/31/1994)

For 21 years no one has been able to break Sergei Bubka’s record. Experts are confident that for several more decades in the history of athletics his merit will not be relegated to second place. The mark of 6 meters 15 centimeters is the pride of Ukraine, where the talented athlete comes from. Today in Donetsk the athletics school is one of the best in all of Europe. There are rumors that the French athlete was able to unofficially break Sergei’s record by jumping 3 cm higher. But this is false information and there is no evidence to support it.

David Rudisha

• David Rudisha - 1:40.91 (08/09/2012)

A Kenyan 800m record was registered in London. 1:40.91 seconds is the official record in athletics, set by the middle athlete in 2012. For 4 years now, no one has been able to come close to his result. However, David continues to impress with his stride, navigating turns better than sprinters. His technique is a subject of study by many trainers. The secret lies in a long step and swing, which significantly saves strength over one of the most difficult distances in athletics.

Dennis Kimetto

• Dennis Kimetto - 2:02.57 (09/28/2014)

42 kilometers and 195 meters is a distance called a marathon. Many people mistakenly mean any long mark by this concept. But no, and Dennis Kimetto knows this firsthand. The world record holder is from Kenya. In 2014, in Germany, he covered the specified distance in 2 hours, 2 minutes and 57 seconds. Just imagine 40 kilometers in 2 hours. It turns out that in an hour he runs twenty kilometers. 1 kilometer in 3 minutes at a distance of 40 km. Tritium professional category in the 1000 meter run 3 minutes plus. He ran 40 at that pace!

Mike Powell

• Mike Powell - 8.95 m (08/30/1991)

1991, Japan. Mike Powell - the legendary athlete from America is accelerating...
At that time, the World Championships had no empty seats on the stands. The entire audience looks with delight at the jumper, who soars in the air. 8.95 meters is an unthinkable result. Only rubber, studs and amazing technique bring the American the coveted victory and a world record that has stood since 91 to this day. Today's jumpers don't even get close to 7 meters. He jumped to almost 9. A noticeable difference, right?