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Christian Coleman breaking the 60 m world record. In 2023, World Athletics decided to introduce the new term 'short track' to replace the previous term 'indoor' to describe events and performances that are set on a 200m track. [172] For track and combined events, the term "indoor world records" were changed to "short track world records".
The World Athletics Championships is a biennial event which began in 1983. Organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the World Championships are a competition comprising track and field athletics events available to male and female athletes from any of the IAAF's 213 member federations.
World records (current olympic events only) as of 13 October 2024 Bolded, italicized records with two asterisks (**) are pending ratification by World Athletics . Event
Wilma Glodean Rudolph - 4 Olympic medals in athletics; Kelly Holmes - 3 Olympic medals in middle distance running; Jackie Joyner-Kersee - 6 Olympic medals in athletics; Ewa Kłobukowska-- world/European championships and records; discriminated and victimized by the world sport establishment, and especially by the Soviet Union and East Germany.
A one-off edition of the championships was also held the same year at the 1980 Summer Olympics to include the IAAF-approved international women's events in 400 metres hurdles and 3000 metres which were not added to the Olympic athletics programme that year due to a dispute with the International Olympic Committee.
IAAF Statistics Book 2009 – World record progressions (Men's from page 202–222, women's from page 292–309) ... Index of athletics record progressions.
World Women's Road Race Championships: 15 kilometres (road) 1985 – 1991: World Women's Road Race Championships: 20 kilometres (road) 2006: 2006: Replaced the half-marathon in 2006 only at the World Road Running Championships: 50 kilometres race walk (road) 1932 – 2020 (except 1976) 1983 – 2019: 2017 – 2019: Marathon relay (road) 1992 ...
The first world record in the 100 metres sprint for women was recognised by the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) in 1922. The FSFI was absorbed by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in 1936. The current record is 10.49 seconds set by Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988.