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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, 10000 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     32.35.0 William Jackson GBR Peckham Apr 05, 1847   32.09.0 Walter George GBR London Mar 25, 1882   31.53.4 Walter George GBR London Apr 07, 1884   31.40.0 Walter George GBR London Jul 28, 1884   31.23.1 William Cummings GBR London Sep 28, 1885   31.02.4 Alfred Schrubb GBR Glasgow Nov 05, 1904 • 30.58.8 Jean Bouin FRA Paris Nov 16, 1911 • 30.40.2 Paavo Nurmi FIN Stockholm Jun 22, 1921 • 30.35.4 Ville Ritola FIN Helsinki May 25, 1924 • 30.23.2 Ville Ritola FIN Paris Jul 06, 1924 • 30.06.2 Paavo Nurmi FIN Kuopio Aug 31, 1924 • 30.05.6 Ilmari Salminen FIN Kouvola Jul 18, 1937 • 30.02.0 Taisto Mäki FIN Tampere Sep 29, 1938 • 29.52.6 Taisto Mäki FIN Helsinki Sep 17, 1939 • 29.35.4 Viljo Heino FIN Helsinki Aug 25, 1944 • 29.28.2 Emil Zátopek TCH Ostrava Jun 11, 1949 • 29.27.2 Viljo Heino FIN Kouvola Sep 01, 1949 • 29.21.2 Emil Zátopek TCH Ostrava Oct 22, 1949 • 29.02.6 Emil Zátopek TCH Turku Aug 04, 1950 • 29.01.6 Emil Zátopek TCH Stará Boleslav Nov 01, 1953 • 28.54.2 Emil Zátopek TCH Brussels Jun 01, 1954 • 28.42.8 Sandor Iharos HUN Budapest Jul 15, 1956 • 28.30.4 Vladimir Kuts URS Moscow Sep 11, 1956 • 28.18.8 Pyotr Bolotnikov URS Kiev Oct 15, 1960 • 28.18.2 Pyotr Bolotnikov URS Moscow Aug 11, 1962 • 28.10.6 Gaston Roelants BEL Oslo Aug 21, 1965 • 28.04.4 Jürgen Haase GDR Leningrad Jul 21, 1968 • 27.47.0 Dave Bedford GBR Portsmouth Jul 10, 1971 • 27.38.4 Lasse Viren FIN München Sep 03, 1972 • 27.30.8 Dave Bedford GBR London Jul 13, 1973 • 27.30.8* Brendan Foster GBR London Jun 23, 1978 • 27.27.7 Fernando Mamede POR Lisboa May 30, 1981 • 27.22.95 Fernando Mamede POR Paris Jul 09, 1982 • 27.13.81 Fernando Mamede POR Stockholm Jul 02, 1984 • 27.12.47 Antonio Pinto POR Stockholm Jul 30, 1999 • 26.52.30 Mohammed Mourhit BEL Brussels Sep 03, 1999 • 26.46.57 Mohammed Farah GBR Eugene, OR Jun 03, 2011