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All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons. •   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated Manual Timing   64.0y A. Pearc IRL Dublin Jul 30, 1860   63.3y F. Smith IRL Dublin May 30, 1866   62.3y R.R. Jones GBR Burnley Aug 06, 1870   61.0y C. Cranswick GBR Malton Jul 27, 1871   60.8y R.C. Miller IRL Dublin Jun 10, 1873   60.8y Sam Widdowsnn GBR Leeds Aug 02, 1873   59.8y Samuel Morris GBR Radcliffe Jul 05, 1886   59.0y Samuel Morris GBR Knutsford Aug 07, 1886   57.2y Godfrey Shaw GBR Douglas Aug 12, 1891   55.4 Erik Wilén FIN Helsinki Sep 05, 1919   55.4* Erik Wilén FIN Helsinki Jul 21, 1920 • 53.8 Sten Pettersson SWE Paris Oct 04, 1925 • 52.4 Sten Pettersson SWE Köln Aug 07, 1928 • 52.4* Luigi Facelli ITA Bologna Oct 06, 1929   51.7 Robert Tisdall IRL Los Angeles Aug 01, 1932 • 51.6 Friedrich-Wilhelm Hölling GER Berlin Jul 09, 1939 • 51.6* Jean-Claude Arifron FRA Paris Sep 09, 1948 • 51.6* Armando Filiput ITA Milan Oct 08, 1950   51.5 Yuriy Lituyev URS Kiev May 27, 1952   51.2 Yuriy Lituyev URS Vyborg Jul 09, 1952   51.2* Yuriy Lituyev URS Tashkent Oct 12, 1952   50.7 Yuriy Lituyev URS Moscow Aug 24, 1953 • 50.4 Yuriy Lituyev URS Budapest Sep 20, 1953   50.4* Yuriy Lituyev URS Tashkent Oct 14, 1956 • 49.9 Helmut Janz FRG Rome Sep 02, 1960 • 49.7 Salvatore Morale ITA Rome Oct 15, 1961 • 49.2* Salvatore Morale ITA Belgrad Sep 14, 1962 • 49.1 Rainer Schubert FRG Mexico City Oct 13, 1968 • 49.1* Gerhard Hennige FRG Mexico City Oct 14, 1968 • 49.1* Roberto Frinolli ITA Mexico City Oct 14, 1968 • 48.1 David Hemery GBR Mexico City Oct 15, 1968 Electronic Timing   52.60 Robert Tisdall IRL Los Angeles Jul 31, 1932   51.67 Robert Tisdall IRL Los Angeles Aug 01, 1932   51.51 Yuriy Lituyev URS Helsinki Jul 21, 1952   50.05 Helmut Janz FRG Rome Sep 02, 1960   49.15 Rainer Schubert FRG Mexico City Oct 13, 1968   49.14 Roberto Frinolli ITA Mexico City Oct 14, 1968 • 48.12 David Hemery GBR Mexico City Oct 15, 1968 • 47.85 Harald Schmid FRG Turin Aug 04, 1979 • 47.48 Harald Schmid FRG Athens Sep 08, 1982 • 47.48* Harald Schmid FRG Rome Sep 02, 1987 • 47.37 Stéphane Diagana FRA Lausanne Jul 05, 1995 • 47.33 Karsten Warholm NOR Oslo Jun 13, 2019 • 47.12 Karsten Warholm NOR London Jul 20, 2019 • 46.92 Karsten Warholm NOR Zürich (SUI) Aug 29, 2019 • 46.87 Karsten Warholm NOR Stockholm Aug 23, 2020 • 46.70 Karsten Warholm NOR Oslo Jul 01, 2021   45.94 Karsten Warholm NOR Tokyo Aug 03, 2021