Men's 200 metres world record progression

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The following table shows the world record progression in the men's 200 metres, as ratified by the IAAF. The current record of 19.19 seconds was set by Usain Bolt at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics.

World record progression for the men's 200 m.

The IAAF maintained separate records for 200 m over a straight track and over a curved track until 1976, when records for the former were discarded. The IAAF ratified the first record for 200 m on a curved track in 1951. "y" denotes times for 220 yards (201.17 m) which were also ratified for the event.

As of 2018, the IAAF has ratified 24 outdoor world records in the event.[1]

Indoor

Indoor records are run on a shorter 200 metres track. "y" indicates marks were set over the 220 yards (201.17 m) imperial distance, and an asterisk indicates a record was repeated. Only Marie-Rose, Christie, and Fredericks' records were ratified by the IAAF.[2]

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TimeAthleteNationalityLocation of raceDate
Manual timing
22.6yMaxie Long United StatesBuffalo19 January 1901
22.6y*Loren Murchison United StatesBrooklyn28 April 1919
22.4yLoren Murchison United StatesNew York6 January 1925
22.2yLoren Murchison United StatesNew York6 January 1925
22.2y*Ted Ellison United StatesNew York1 March 1935
21.7yThomas Robinson BahamasChicago18 January 1959
21.7y*James Green United StatesChicago23 December 1967
21.6*Dieter Hübner West GermanyStuttgart2 March 1968
21.6Bernd Jacob West GermanyStuttgart2 March 1968
21.2y[a]John Carlos United StatesEast Lansing14 February 1970
21.1yCarl Lawson JamaicaPocatello2 March 1974
21.1Günter Arnold East GermanyBerlin-Est18 January 1976
20.6yErwin Skamrahl West GermanySindelfingen11 February 1983
Electronic timing
21.43Manfred Ommer West GermanyStuttgart26 February 1972
21.40Manfred Ommer West GermanyMunich23 February 1974
21.16Karl-Heinz Weisenseel West GermanyStuttgart22 February 1975
21.11Karl-Heinz Weisenseel West GermanySindelfingen25 February 1978
21.11*Pietro Mennea ItalyMilan4 March 1978
21.05Mauro Zuliani ItalyGenova9 February 1980
20.99Erwin Skamrahl West GermanyDortmund13 February 1982
20.98Ralf Lübke West GermanySindelfingen11 February 1983
20.77Ralf Lübke West GermanySindelfingen12 February 1983
20.74Pietro Mennea ItalyGenova13 February 1983
20.67Ralf Lübke West GermanyStuttgart10 February 1984
20.57Ralf Lübke West GermanyStuttgart11 February 1984
20.52Stefano Tilli ItalyTurin21 February 1985
20.36Bruno Marie-Rose FranceLiévin22 February 1987
20.25Linford Christie Great BritainLiévin19 February 1995
19.92Frank Fredericks NamibiaLiévin18 February 1996
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Outdoor

Records 1951–1976

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Time Wind Auto Athlete Nationality Location of race Date
20.6y Andy Stanfield United States Philadelphia, United States 26 May 1951[4]
20.6 Andy Stanfield United States Los Angeles, United States 28 June 1952[4]
20.6 0.0 Thane Baker United States Bakersfield, United States 23 June 1956[4]
20.6 20.75 Bobby Morrow United States Melbourne, Australia 27 November 1956[4]
20.6 Manfred Germar  West Germany Wuppertal, Germany 1 October 1958[4]
20.6y −1.6 Ray Norton  United States Berkeley, United States 19 March 1960[4]
20.6 Ray Norton  United States Philadelphia, United States 30 April 1960[4]
20.5y Peter Radford  United Kingdom Wolverhampton, United Kingdom 28 May 1960[4]
20.5 0.0 20.75 Stone Johnson  United States Stanford, United States 2 July 1960[4]
20.5 0.0 Ray Norton  United States Stanford, United States 2 July 1960[4]
20.5 20.65 Livio Berruti  Italy Rome, Italy 3 September 1960[4]
20.5 0.0 20.62 Livio Berruti  Italy Rome, Italy 3 September 1960[4]
20.5y −1.1 20.67 Paul Drayton  United States Walnut, United States 23 June 1962[4]
20.3y −0.1 Henry Carr  United States Tempe, United States 23 March 1963[4]
20.2y 0.5 Henry Carr  United States Tempe, United States 4 April 1964[4]
20.0y 0.0 Tommie Smith  United States Sacramento, United States 11 June 1966[5][4]
19.8 A 0.9 19.83 A Tommie Smith  United States Mexico City, Mexico 16 October 1968[4]
19.8 A 0.9 19.86 A Don Quarrie  Jamaica Cali, Colombia 3 August 1971[4]
19.8y 1.3 Don Quarrie  Jamaica Eugene, United States 7 June 1975[4]
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The "Time" column indicates the ratified mark; the "Wind" column indicates the wind assistance in metres per second, 2.0 m/s the current maximum allowable, a negative indicates the mark was set running into a wind; the "Auto" column indicates a fully automatic time that was also recorded in the event when hand-timed marks were used for official records, or which was the basis for the official mark, rounded to the 10th or 100th of a second, depending on the rules then in place.

John Carlos ran 19.7A seconds (19.92A auto) (1.9 ms wind), at altitude, at the 1968 US Olympic Trials in Echo Summit. The run was not ratified as a world record because Carlos was wearing shoes with 'brush' spikes which did not have sanction as official footwear.

Henry Carr's winning time at the 1964 Olympics (17 October) was a hand timed 20.3 seconds. The electronic time was 20.36 seconds, which was the fastest auto time to that date. Tommie Smith ran 20.26 for 220 yards at Provo in 1967. By deducting .12 seconds for the 200-metre equivalent, he is estimated to have run 20.14 for that distance.[6]: 45 

Records post-1977

Beginning in 1975, the IAAF accepted separate automatically electronically timed records for events up to 400 metres. Starting on January 1, 1977, the IAAF required fully automatic timing to the hundredth of a second for these events.[4]

Tommie Smith's 1968 Olympic gold medal victory was the fastest recorded fully electronic 200-metre sprint up to that time.

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Time Wind Auto Athlete Nationality Location of race Date
19.83 A 0.9 Tommie Smith  United States Mexico City, Mexico 16 October 1968[4]
19.72 A 1.8 Pietro Mennea  Italy Mexico City, Mexico 12 September 1979[4]
19.66 1.7 Michael Johnson  United States Atlanta, United States 23 June 1996[4]
19.32 0.4 19.313 Michael Johnson  United States Atlanta, United States 1 August 1996[4]
19.30 −0.9 19.296 Usain Bolt  Jamaica Beijing, China 20 August 2008[4]
19.19 −0.3 19.190 Usain Bolt  Jamaica Berlin, Germany 20 August 2009[1][7][8]
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The record progressions for automatic times at low altitude (after Carr's 20.36 in 1964) were 20.30 seconds by Valeriy Borzov at Helsinki in 1971, then Larry Black 20.28, 1972 at Munich, 20.00 (Borzov, 1972 also at Munich), 19.96 (Mennea, 1980), 19.75 (Carl Lewis, 1983), 19.75 (Joe DeLoach, 1988) and 19.73 (Michael Marsh, 1992), before Michael Johnson ran 19.66 in 1996.[6]: 46–47 

See also

Notes

  1. [a]
    Some considered Carlos' time invalid for records as it was run on a dirt track.[3]

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