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All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons.
•   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated
 
  10.72 Hugh Williams GBR Cambridge Mar 15, 1859
  10.97 Hugh Williams GBR Cambridge May 28, 1860
  10.97* Robert McKerchar GBR Edinburgh Jun 27, 1866
  11.12 John Stone GBR London Apr 15, 1867
  11.45 John Stone GBR Liverpool Jun 29, 1867
  11.55 John Stone GBR London Jun 20, 1868
  11.58 Richard Waltham GBR Cambridge Mar 05, 1869
  11.88 J. Elliott GBR Sunderland May 22, 1869
  12.44 John Stone GBR Warrington Aug 20, 1870
  12.49 David Lundie GBR Edinburgh Mar 18, 1871
  12.93 Edward Bor GBR London Mar 27, 1872
  13.08 George Ross GBR Stoke Jul 01, 1882
  13.23 John Maxwell IRL Mardyke Apr 19, 1884
  13.33 James O'Brien IRL Dublin Jul 03, 1885
  13.68 James O'Brien IRL Dublin Jul 11, 1885
  14.63 Dennis Horgan IRL Mallow Aug 09, 1897
  14.68 Dennis Horgan IRL Cobh Sep 19, 1897
  14.68* Dennis Horgan IRL Queenstown Sep 25, 1897
  14.68* Dennis Horgan IRL Queenstown Oct 09, 1897
  14.88 Dennis Horgan IRL Mallow Sep 18, 1904
  14.86 Elmer Nicklander FIN Helsinki Jul 19, 1913
  14.87 Ville Pörhölä FIN Helsinki Sep 05, 1925
  15.17 Kalle Järvinen FIN Tampere Jun 13, 1927
  15.39 Emil Hirschfeld GER Ettlingen Apr 18, 1928
• 15.79 Emil Hirschfeld GER Breslau May 06, 1928
  15.87* Emil Hirschfeld GER Berlin Aug 18, 1928
  16.00 Emil Hirschfeld GER Bochum Aug 26, 1928
• 16.04 Emil Hirschfeld GER Bochum Aug 26, 1928
  16.04* Frantisek Douda TCH Brno Oct 04, 1931
  16.05 Zygmunt Heljasz POL Poznan Jun 29, 1932
  16.08 Frantisek Douda TCH Prague Sep 01, 1932
• 16.20 Frantisek Douda TCH Prague Sep 24, 1932
  16.21 Hans Wöellke GER Berlin Aug 31, 1935
  16.33 Hans Wöellke GER Weißenfels Sep 08, 1935
• 16.54 Hans Wöellke GER Wünsdorf Jun 17, 1936
• 16.60 Hans Wöellke GER Frankfurt/Main Aug 20, 1936
  16.60* Heinrich Trippe GER Turin Sep 14, 1940
  16.66 Heino Lipp URS Tartu May 24, 1947
  16.72 Heino Lipp URS Tartu Jul 07, 1947
  16.73 Heino Lipp URS Kharkiv Sep 03, 1947
• 16.93 Heino Lipp URS Moscow Aug 06, 1950
  16.95 Heino Lipp URS Põltsamaa Jun 17, 1951
  16.98 Heino Lipp URS Minsk Sep 07, 1951
  17.09 Jiri Skobla TCH Stará Boleslav Sep 20, 1952
• 17.12 Jiri Skobla TCH Prague Oct 11, 1952
• 17.31 Jiri Skobla TCH Prague Jun 13, 1953
  17.36 Jiri Skobla TCH Znojmo Sep 13, 1953
• 17.54 Jiri Skobla TCH Aue Sep 22, 1953
  17.57 Jiri Skobla TCH Berlin Jul 01, 1956
• 17.63 Jiri Skobla TCH Budapest Aug 19, 1956
• 17.76 Jiri Skobla TCH Ostrava Aug 25, 1956
  18.05 Jiri Skobla TCH Athens Aug 14, 1957
• 18.19 Silvano Meconi ITA Pescara May 24, 1959
• 18.48 Silvano Meconi ITA Pescara Jun 24, 1959
• 18.59 Arthur Rowe GBR London Aug 14, 1959
• 18.67 Vilmos Varju HUN Budapest Jul 29, 1960
• 18.92 Arthur Rowe GBR Mansfield Aug 01, 1960
• 19.11 Arthur Rowe GBR Berlin Oct 16, 1960
• 19.19 Arthur Rowe GBR London Aug 05, 1961
• 19.43 Arthur Rowe GBR London Aug 05, 1961
• 19.56 Arthur Rowe GBR Mansfield Aug 07, 1961
• 19.62 Vilmos Varju HUN Budapest Jun 04, 1966
• 19.64 Eduard Gushchin URS Katowice Jul 14, 1967
• 20.08 Dieter Hoffmann GDR Potsdam Jul 03, 1968
• 20.10 Dieter Hoffmann GDR Prague Jul 20, 1968
• 20.18 Heinfried Birlenbach FRG Brescia Jul 20, 1968
• 20.28 Eduard Gushchin URS Mexico City Oct 04, 1968
• 20.49 Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg GDR Berlin May 14, 1969
• 20.64 Hans-Peter Gies GDR Budapest Jun 28, 1969
• 20.69 Hartmut Briesenick GDR Berlin Jun 06, 1971
• 21.00 Hartmut Briesenick GDR Turin Jun 12, 1971
• 21.08 Hartmut Briesenick GDR Helsinki Aug 13, 1971
• 21.12 Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg GDR Moscow Aug 28, 1971
• 21.32 Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg GDR Potsdam Jun 03, 1972
• 21.54 Hartmut Briesenick GDR Potsdam Aug 25, 1972
• 21.67 Hartmut Briesenick GDR Potsdam Sep 01, 1973
• 21.70 Aleksandr Baryshnikov URS Moscow Aug 25, 1974
• 22.00 Aleksandr Baryshnikov URS Paris Jul 10, 1976
• 22.15 Udo Beyer GDR Göteborg Jul 06, 1978
• 22.22 Udo Beyer GDR Los Angeles Jun 25, 1983
• 22.62 Ulf Timmermann GDR East Berlin Sep 22, 1985
• 22.64 Udo Beyer GDR East Berlin Aug 20, 1986
• 22.72 Alessandro Andrei ITA Viareggio Aug 13, 1987
• 22.84 Alessandro Andrei ITA Viareggio Aug 13, 1987
• 22.91 Alessandro Andrei ITA Viareggio Aug 13, 1987
• 23.06 Ulf Timmermann GDR Chania May 22, 1988