Did you know that the oldest track athletics world record is in the women’s 800m set by Jarmila Kratochvilova in 1983?
Or that the longest-standing mark in the field has belonged to hammer thrower Yuriy Sedykh since 1986?
The fastest man in history is Usain Bolt. The Jamaican became the first man to run the men’s 100m in less than 9.6 seconds with his 9.58 at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin.
The track legend, who dominated the sprints for almost a decade, also set the 200m world record of 19.19 at the same championships.
Another double world record holder is Florence Griffith-Joyner. The American’s times of 10.49s in the women’s 100m and 21.34s in the 200m have stood since 1988.