World Records in Athletics Ranked by Official Scoring Tables

The Scoring Tables of Athletics are based on exact statistical data and according to the following principles:
The scores in the tables of different events cover equivalent performances. Therefore, the tables can be used to compare results achieved in different athletic events.

Due to obvious biological differences, it is not proposed to fully compare men’s and women’s performances. Thus, the system contains scoring tables for men’s and women’s events respectively.

The tables are progressive, which means that the same improvement of results at higher levels leads to a greater increase in the scores. For example, to improve from 8.30m to 8.60m in the Long Jump is obviously more difficult than to improve from 6.30m to 6.60m. The degree of progressivity in the running (walking, hurdling) events is different than in the jumping and in the throwing events due to biomechanical reasons.

While these tables can never be a definitive measurement of the level of performance considering the differing opinions among sports statisticians concerning their basis and method of construction, they do allow us to consistently measure and compare athletes and their performances across the rich variety of event disciplines.

– Excerpt taken from IAAF SCORING TABLES OF ATHLETICS (2017 REVISED EDITION) by Dr Bojidar Spiriev (Updated by Attila Spiriev)

World Records Ranked by Score

Event	Track/Field	Type	Gender	Athlete	World Record Mark	Result Score	Date Set
Discus Throw	Field	Throwing	F	Gabriele Reinsch	76.80	1382	9-Jul-1988
Shot Put	Field	Throwing	F	Natalya Lisovskaya	22.63	1372	7-Jun-1987
Javelin Throw	Field	Throwing	M	Jan Železný	98.48	1365	25-May-1996
100m	Track	Running	M	Usain Bolt	9.58	1356	16-Aug-2009
200m	Track	Running	M	Usain Bolt	19.19	1352	20-Aug-2009
Long Jump	Field	Jumping	M	Mike Powell	8.95	1346	30-Aug-1991
400m Hurdles	Track	Running	M	Karsten Warholm	45.94	1341	3-Aug-2021
Long Jump	Field	Jumping	F	Galina Chistyakova	7.52	1333	11-Jun-1988
Heptathlon	Track & Field	Mixed	F	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	7291	1331	24-Sep-1988
Shot Put	Field	Throwing	M	Ryan Crouser	23.37	1323	18-Jun-2021
Pole Vault	Field	Jumping	M	Armand Duplantis	6.20	1322	20-Mar-2022
400m	Track	Running	M	Wayde van Niekerk	43.03	1321	14-Aug-2016
Discus Throw	Field	Throwing	M	Jürgen Schult	74.08	1320	6-Jun-1986
4x100m Relay	Track	Running	M	Jamaica	36.84	1318	11-Aug-2012
Marathon	Track	Running	M	Eliud Kipchoge	02:01:39	1316	16-Sep-2018
High Jump	Field	Jumping	M	Javier Sotomayor	2.45	1314	27-Jul-1993
100m	Track	Running	F	Florence Griffith-Joyner	10.49	1314	16-Jul-1988
400m Hurdles	Track	Running	F	Sydney McLaughlin	50.68	1312	22-Jul-2022
High Jump	Field	Jumping	F	Stefka Kostadinova	2.09	1309	30-Aug-1987
200m	Track	Running	F	Florence Griffith-Joyner	21.34	1308	29-Sep-1988
10000m	Track	Running	M	Joshua Cheptegei	26:11.00	1306	7-Oct-2020
Javelin Throw	Field	Throwing	F	Barbora Špotáková	72.28	1306	13-Sep-2008
400m	Track	Running	F	Marita Koch	47.60	1304	6-Oct-1985
10000m	Track	Running	F	Letesenbet Gidey	29:01.03	1303	8-Jun-2021
Hammer Throw	Field	Throwing	F	Anita Włodarczyk	82.98	1303	28-Aug-2016
Triple Jump	Field	Jumping	M	Jonathan Edwards	18.29	1303	7-Aug-1995
5000m	Track	Running	M	Joshua Cheptegei	12:35.36	1302	14-Aug-2020
Decathlon	Track & Field	Mixed	M	Kevin Mayer	9126	1302	16-Sep-2018
1500m	Track	Running	M	Hicham El Guerrouj	2:26.00	1302	14-Jul-1998
800m	Track	Running	M	David Rudisha	1:40.91	1301	9-Aug-2012
Hammer Throw	Field	Throwing	M	Yuriy Sedykh	86.74	1298	30-Aug-1986
Triple Jump	Field	Jumping	F	Yulimar Rojas	15.74	1297	20-Mar-2022
Marathon	Track	Running	F	Brigid Kosgei	2:14.04	1295	13-Oct-2019
110m Hurdles	Track	Running	M	Aries Merritt	12.80	1294	7-Sep-2012
Pole Vault	Field	Jumping	F	Yelena Isinbayeva	5.06	1290	28-Aug-2009
3000m Steeplechase	Track	Running	M	Saif Saaeed Shaheen	7:53.63	1288	3-Sep-2004
1500m	Track	Running	F	Genzebe Dibaba	3:50.07	1287	17-Jul-2015
800m	Track	Running	F	Jarmila Kratochvílová	1:53.28	1286	26-Jul-1983
3000m Steeplechase	Track	Running	F	Beatrice Chepkoech	8:44.32	1285	20-Jul-2018
4x400m Relay	Track	Running	M	United States	2:54.29	1281	22-Aug-1993
4x100m Relay	Track	Running	F	United States	40.82	1273	10-Aug-2012
5000m	Track	Running	F	Letesenbet Gidey	14:06.62	1269	7-Oct-2020
4x400m Relay	Track	Running	F	Soviet Union	3:15.17	1267	1-Oct-1988
100m Hurdles	Track	Running	F	Kendra Harrison	12.20	1261	22-Jul-2016