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Men    Women 100 y 100 m 200 m 400 m 800 m 1500 m 1 Mile 5000 m 10000 m Marathon 110 m Hurdles 400 m Hurdles 3000 m Steeplechase 4 x 100 m Relay 4 x 400 m Relay 10 km Track Walk 20 km Road Walk 50 km Road Walk 35 km Road Walk High Jump Pole Vault Long Jump Triple Jump Shot Put Discus Throw Hammer Throw Javelin Throw Decathlon 4 x 400 m Mixed

Men, 800 m World    World Indoor    Europe    Olympic    World Champ.    Europe Champ. All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons. •   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated     2.06.0y A. Wood GBR 1830   2.05.0y J. Blackwood GBR Addiscombe Apr 25, 1857   2.04.0y Wiliam Way GBR Oxford Nov 25, 1859   2.03.0y Charlie Grey IRL Dublin Jun 27, 1861   2.03.0*y Percy Thornton GBR London Dec 16, 1865   2.02.5y Percy Thornton GBR London Dec 16, 1865   2.02.4y Francis Pelham GBR Cambridge Mar 23, 1867   2.01.0y Kinross Gair GBR Edinburgh Jun 26, 1867   1.59.8y Arthur Pelham GBR Cambridge Mar 26, 1873   1.59.5y Walter Slade GBR Dublin Jun 05, 1876   1.58.8y Walter Slade GBR Dublin Jun 06, 1876   1.58.2y Walter Slade GBR Belfast Jun 10, 1876   1.57.5y Frederic Elborough GBR London Oct 07, 1876   1.54.6y Francis Cross GBR Oxford Mar 09, 1888   1.54.5y Walter Dohm USA New York Sep 19, 1891   1.52.1y Emilio Lunghi ITA Montreal Sep 15, 1909   1.52.4 Douglas Lowe GBR Colombes Jul 08, 1924 • 1.51.6y Otto Peltzer GER London Jul 03, 1926 • 1.50.6 Séra Martin FRA Colombes Jul 14, 1928 • 1.49.8 Thomas Hampson GBR Los Angeles Aug 02, 1932 • 1.48.4 Sydney Wooderson GBR Motspur Park Aug 20, 1938 • 1.46.6 Rudolf Harbig GER Milan Jul 15, 1939 • 1.45.7 Roger Moens BEL Oslo Aug 03, 1955 • 1.44.9 Franz-Josef Kemper FRG Hannover Aug 07, 1966 • 1.44.9* Walter Adams FRG Stuttgart Jul 16, 1970 • 1.44.5 Pekka Vasala FIN Helsinki Aug 20, 1972 • 1.43.7 Marcello Fiasconaro ITA Milan Jun 27, 1973 • 1.42.33 Sebastian Coe GBR Oslo Jul 05, 1979 • 1.41.73 Sebastian Coe GBR Firenze Jun 10, 1981 • 1.41.73* Wilson Kipketer DEN Stockholm Jul 07, 1997 • 1.41.24 Wilson Kipketer DEN Zürich Aug 13, 1997 • 1.41.11 Wilson Kipketer DEN Köln Aug 24, 1997