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World Athletics (formerly IAAF) maintains an official list for such performances, but only in specific outdoor and indoor events. All other records shown on this list are tracked by statisticians not officially sanctioned by the world governing body. These age category records were formerly called world youth bests.
World U20 records in the sport of athletics are ratified by World Athletics. Athletics records comprise the best performance of an athlete before the year of their 20th birthday. Technically, in all under 20 age divisions, the age is calculated "on December 31 of the year of competition" [1] to avoid age group switching during a competitive season.
Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed 7 times indoors by two different men since 2000, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2025 with a 6.27 m mark.
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The team at Guinness World Records get about 100 applicants a day and reject some 95%. Submissions, on the whole, must be measurable, breakable and provable. They may not impinge on someone else ...
World Youth Championships: Ostrava, Czech Republic 15 years, 324 days [9] 110 m hurdles: 13.74 (−0.3 m/s) Kevin Craddock: 17 July 2004 World Junior Championships: Grosseto, Italy 17 years, 22 days 400 m hurdles (84 cm) 49.01 William Wynne: 15 July 2007 World Youth Championships: Ostrava, Czech Republic 17 years, 166 days [10] 400 m hurdles: 49.56
The world's tallest man, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records, is Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was born in 1918 in Alton, Ill. Standing at a colossal 8'11.1″ (2.72 m) and weighing in at ...
In the United States, the form World's Record was formerly more common. The term The World's Best was also briefly in use. The latter term is still used in athletics events, including track and field and road running to describe good and bad performances that are not recognized as an official world record: either because it is not an event where World Athletics tracks the record (e.g. the 150 ...