World record and Olympic record, which is more important. The fastest, tallest and strongest. Record breaking records in athletics. Gallstones Kipa Keino

World biathlon legend

Photo: © RIA Novosti/Alexey Filippov

Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen is a true legend of modern sports. He is the most decorated athlete in the history of the Winter Olympics. He has 13 medals, eight of which are gold. The Norwegian also shares the record for the most Winter Olympics champion titles with skier Björn Deli.

In addition, the husband of Belarusian biathlete Daria Domracheva, after the Games in Salt Lake City, became the world's only absolute Olympic champion in biathlon.

By the way, Bjoerndalen has every chance to go to Pyeongchang. His participation will be announced soon.

Record holder from Russia

Russian luger Albert Demchenko holds the record for the number of participations in the Olympics. He competed at seven Games in a row (1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014). However, he shares this achievement with the Japanese ski jumper Noriaki Kasai, who also repeated this record in Sochi.

But not everything worked out so perfectly in Demchenko’s career. The luger was involved in a big doping scandal that broke out last year. As a result, the International Olympic Committee found him guilty of violating anti-doping rules and stripped the Russian of two silver medals at the Sochi Games. He was also banned for life from participating in the Olympic Games.

Tikhonov's record

Soviet biathlete, four-time Olympic champion, Olympic silver medalist, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Alexander Tikhonov is also a record holder. He won gold medals at four Olympics in a row. It was even included in the Guinness Book of Records.

Until 2002, no one managed to break another of his records. He was the only one in biathlon who managed to win the most gold.

Oldest Olympic medalist

Back in 1924 (this date is considered the start of the Winter Olympic Games), Swedish curler Carl August Kronlund went down in history as the oldest medalist. He was 59 years and 155 days old when he won silver with the team.

Youngest Olympic medalist

The youngest medalist in the history of the White Olympics was the athlete from South Korea, Yun Mi Kim. In 1994, at the Olympic Games in the Norwegian city of Lillihammer, the short speed skater won Olympic gold. At that time she was only 13 years and 83 days old.

Longest Olympic torch relay

The Olympic torch relay before the Games in Sochi broke all records and became the longest in the history of the competition. The Olympic flame traveled a total of 65 thousand kilometers, and about 14 thousand people became honorary torchbearers.

True, another record was recorded, which one can hardly be proud of. For the first time in history, the flame went out more than 100 times during the entire relay...

TV presenter Vladimir Pozner.

Record number of Olympic participants

In 1994, sports delegations from 67 countries took part in the Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer (Norway). 1,737 athletes submitted applications. This became a record in the entire history of the Games.

The Winter Olympic Games have been held since 1924. Since then, over the 90 years of their holding, with a break for the Second World War, 22 such forums have already been organized. During this time, many records have accumulated that are associated with the Zoo.

There are record holders of the Winter Olympic Games in a variety of categories.

These are the countries that have won the largest number of medals, and the athletes who have set various records. For example, at the recently concluded Winter Olympics in the Russian city of Sochi, several records were set at once.

Thus, luger Albert Demchenko took part in his seventh Winter Olympics. This became an absolute record for the number of participations. It must be said that Demchenko not only participated, but was able to win two silver medals in his forties. Another age record holder was Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen.

He won two medals at the games. Now he has 13 of them, which is one more than his compatriot, skier Bjorn Daly. It is interesting that both veterans who set records in Sochi have not yet announced their retirement. However, if we talk about the age of Olympic medalists, we should note such a record holder as Swedish curler Karl-August Kronlund, who won his medal in 1924 at the age of 59 years and 155 days.

And the youngest medalist was South Korean short speed skater Kim Yun Mi at the Lillihammer Games in 1994. He was then 13 years and 83 days old. Soviet biathlete Alexander Tikhonov also set a very interesting record - he won 4 times in a row in one discipline - the relay race (1968-80).

There are also countries that hold the Winter Olympic Games record for medals. There are certain difficulties with calculations here. The fact is that the eventful history of the last century divided and united some countries. This especially applies to Germany and the USSR.

Russia became the legal successor of the Soviet Union. And if you add up all the medals won by Russia and the USSR at the OWG, then our country will be the world leader.

And if you separate them, then Norway takes first place by a wide margin, and the United States comes in second.

We can also mention such interesting records as the largest number of medals won by one country at the Winter Olympics. This record was set on home soil by US athletes. They won 37 medals of various denominations at the forum in Salt Lake City. But at the same 2010 Olympics, the Canadian team won 14 gold medals, which is also a record. Just one gold was not enough for the Russian team to repeat this record in Sochi.

The Olympic Games are the main start in the life of any athlete. Participants approach it at the peak of their form and capabilities. And if you add a good dose of adrenaline and the Olympic spirit to one hundred percent physical readiness, you can get a recipe for a successful performance that will be entered into the book of records.

All 70 arrows in the top ten

The first world record at the Olympics was set even before the official opening ceremony of the Games. In the preliminary archery competition, where participants simply allocated places in the playoff bracket of an individual tournament, the representative of South Korea, Kim Woo-jin, accomplished the seemingly impossible - all of his 70 arrows flew into the top ten. This is an absolute result that can only be repeated, but cannot be beaten. Kim Woo-jin improved by one point the previous world achievement of his compatriot Lim Dong-hyun, who also set his record at the Olympic competitions - four years ago in London 2012. So, archery records in the pre-Olympic days are already becoming a tradition.

As for Kim Woo-jin, in Rio de Janeiro he won a gold medal in the team tournament as part of his team, but in the individual competition, where he was naturally seeded number one, the South Korean sensationally lost in the 1/16 finals to the little-known Indonesian Riau Ega Agat. It’s one thing to hit targets in an abstract competition with all participants in the qualifications, and quite another to wage a head-to-head fight with a specific opponent.

The pool seemed to get shorter

After the abolition of high-tech overalls in 2009, in which swimmers literally began to beat the stopwatch, few believed in the further progress of swimming. Before each new start, bets were made on who would be able to break the world record and at what distance. And each time the record holders surprised with their results. In Rio, they began the race for records in the qualifying swims of the first day of the competition. True, here too there were skeptics who believe that the organizers of the Games are again to blame for everything. They allegedly built a swimming pool with lanes 2cm shorter than the 50m Olympic standard.

Nevertheless, all seven records have been ratified. Two belonged to the British Adam Peaty in the 100m breaststroke (57.55 in the preliminary heat and 57.13 in the final). The rest of the heroines are women: the Australian relay team (4x100 freestyle, 3:30.65), Sweden's Sarah Sjoström (100 and butterfly, 55.48), American Katie Ledecky (400 and 800 m freestyle, 3:56.46 and 8:04.79, respectively) , Hungarian Katinka Hosshu (400m individual medley, 4.26.36). Most of all I want to be happy for the “Iron Lady” from Hungary. She chased this record for seven years. And for Olympic gold - 12, from the 2004 Games in Athens.

Grandma won't teach you anything bad

In athletics, Polish athlete Anita Wlodarczyk is improving her results with enviable consistency. In Rio, she threw the hammer at 82.29 m, beating her own achievement of 2015 (81.08 m). Although we are not talking about seconds at all, this was the “fastest” record. The rest had to wait much longer.

Ethiopian Almaz Ayana won the gold medal in the 10,000 meters, finishing in 29 minutes 17.45 seconds. The previous record holder, Chinese Wang Junxia, was photographed in front of a scoreboard with the letters WR back in 1993 (29:31.78).

But the most unexpected champion and record holder was the South African athlete Wayde van Niekerk. He ran on the eighth lane, which was considered inconvenient. But this circumstance did not prevent him from winning the 400 m race with a result of 43.03 seconds. The record for this distance has stood since 1999 and belonged to the American Michael Johnson (43.18). It’s funny, but van Niekerk is trained by his own grandmother, who is already 74 years old. And it seems that the old lady knows a lot about running.

Pentacampions in swimsuits

Natalya Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina each won two gold medals in Rio - in a duet and in a group, thus becoming five-time Olympic champions. For synchronized swimmers, this is a repeat of the record of Anastasia Davydova, who retired after London. Considering that only two sets of awards are awarded at the Olympics, it is very difficult to assemble such a collection. For example, at the world championships, girls compete for seven sets. So Natasha is a 19-time champion, Sveta is an 18-time champion. Will Ishchenko and Romashina be able to surpass their Rio Olympic achievement? At least so far the girls have not announced their retirement. But in any case, they have already rewritten the history of synchronized swimming.

And Asya Davydova, and Natasha Ishchenko, and Sveta Romashina are completely different. Each of them had their own path to achieving success, each of them developed it in their own way,” said Tatyana Danchenko, coach of the Ishchenko-Romashina duet. - This era of fivefold for each of them requires a separate volume of biography; it certainly cannot be covered in one volume.

Karelin in a skirt

In swimming you can win several medals in one Olympics. But to become a multiple champion, for example, in wrestling, you need to remain a hegemon for many years. Even two “golds” for an individual wrestler is very cool. Three-time Olympic champions in wrestling can be counted on one hand. In addition to our Alexander Karelin and Buvaysar Saitiev, there are six more people, including the Cuban Mihan Lopez, who has joined the cohort of greats already here in Rio.

So the achievement of Japanese Kaori Ityo, who became a four-time winner of Olympic gold in Brazil, can be called transcendental. Just think: Ityo won the Olympics for the first time back in 2004 in Athens! In her weight, up to 63 kg, she had no equal in Beijing 2008 and London 2012. Starting from the 2014 World Championships in Tashkent, Kaori changed her weight (up to 58 kg), but this did not affect her success in any way. By the time she arrived in Rio, the Japanese woman had not lost at the World Championships and Olympics for 14 years.

Our Valeria Koblova was close to breaking this fantastic streak, but, leading in the score, the Russian woman missed out on the victory in the last seconds. And thus contributed to Ityo’s great record.

Golden Rugby

It doesn’t often happen that the first Olympic medal in a country’s history turns out to be gold. This happened in Rio de Janeiro.

Fiji athletes have been taking part in the Games since 1976. During this time, the state, located on an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, represented 72 people in nine sports at the Olympics. Boxing, cycling, judo, athletics, sailing, archery, weightlifting - as it turned out, the list was missing rugby sevens, in which the Fijians are the dockers. Suffice it to say that they were the ones who won the most prestigious World Series of Rugby Sevens in the last two seasons.

In Rio de Janeiro, rugby sevens was included in the Olympic program for the first time, and the islanders took full advantage of the opportunity. From six matches in the men's tournament, Fiji recorded six wins to claim historic honours.

Among the Olympic medalists who won the first gold for their country, Singaporean swimmer Joseph Schooling deserves special mention. If only because the 21-year-old guy defeated the great and terrible Michael Phelps, and at the American’s favorite distance - the 100 butterfly.

The British sped off

“The velodrome in Rio is very fast for a new track. Therefore, there will be a lot of records here,” our silver medalist in the team sprint Anastasia Voinova looked at the water. During the Olympics, seven world achievements were broken here: more often, records were updated only in weightlifting and swimming (eight each).

The authorship of five out of seven records belongs to British racers, which is not surprising. The British team competed here at the 2012 London Home Games, winning six top medals. It is interesting that three world achievements were consistently renewed by the British in the team pursuit. In fact, they did this in every race they entered.

Among those who diluted the sovereignty of the United Kingdom are Chinese women Qinjie Gong and Tianshi Zhong. In one of the preliminary races in the team sprint, they set an Olympic record, and in the semifinals - a world record. The duet of our girls Nastya Voinova and Daria Shmeleva indirectly contributed to these achievements. After all, the Chinese competed in absentia or in person with them.

THERE IS A THEME

On July 26, the oldest world record in athletics, Jarmila Kratokhvilova’s achievement in the 800 m, will be 30 years old. But Bob Beamon’s long jump record of 8.90, which at one time was called “eternal,” lasted less than 23 years. Currently, the table of world records includes 12 results that will be 25 or more years old this year. Will they be surpassed, and if so, when? Famous athletes and coaches are answering this question today.

MEN

Disk

74,08

Jürgen SCHULT GDR

Neubrandenburg

06.06.1986

The result of Schult, Olympic champion in Seoul 88 and silver medalist in Barcelona 92, is the oldest men's world record in history. Schult, who set his world record at the age of 26 and dominated the men's discus for a long time, competed until he was 40 (that's how old he was in Sydney 2000), received an education in the field of sports and, after finishing his career as an athlete, became a coach.

Yuri DUMCHEV, ex-world record holder:

I think this record will be broken, the only question is when? In the next five, perhaps ten years. Previously, it’s unlikely. Although Pyotr Malakhovsky recently shot at 71.84. In principle, there are good guys who can achieve a world record. But, I repeat, it may well stand for another ten years.

How did I feel about this record? Schult installed it in his hometown, and at the next start he showed almost ten meters less. This alarmed me a little. After that, if I'm not mistaken, he threw 69 many times, but only a few times over 70. It happens: at some point you shoot. Besides, the wind still helps with our species. There are places in the world that seem specially created for discus throwing, where the wind blows very strongly. I know a case where a guy with a personal record of 55 m came to one of these and threw at 65.

Schult's result is, of course, fantastic. At that time it was something! Afterwards I thought that Virgilius Alekna or Gerd Kanter would take him down. The latter, in principle, still has a chance. It seems to me that he is the only one who could do this in the near future. I don’t like Robert Harting from a technical point of view; he has such a typical power throw. But at 75 m it is very difficult to throw like that.

Valentin MASLAKOV , head coach of the Russian national team:

I think this is one of those records that will stand for a long, long time. I don’t see anyone yet who could take a swing at him. Now even throws of just over 70 m are considered a very high result.

HAMMER

86,74

Yuri SEDYKH USSR

Stuttgart

30.08.1988

Yuri Sedykh set his world record at the age of 31 at the European Championships. Before that, his outstanding career included victories at the Games in Montreal '76 and Moscow '80, and later - silver in Seoul '88 and gold in the '91 World Cup. After the collapse of the USSR, Sedykh and his wife, world record holder in shot put Natalya Lisovskaya, lived in France.

Valentin MASLAKOV :

Sedykh had an excellent coach, Anatoly Pavlovich Bondarchuk, who himself threw at a very high level, and then became an excellent mentor. In his group there were several strong athletes who took turns and were leaders. Sedykh, let's say, worked according to his own schedule, which would not suit everyone now: the year showed brilliant results, and the year - rather mediocre. This strategy made it possible to allocate sufficient time for preparation, to perform all the necessary volumes and then show very long throws.

Now in the hammer there are attempts over 83 m. But 86 m is, of course, a very high result. However, I think the record can still be broken. There are athletes who are gradually approaching this mark. Now we see a high density of results. And this is not one or two people, but a whole group that consistently throws in the 82 m area.

WOMEN

100 m

10,49

Florence GRIFFITH-JOYNER USA

Indianapolis

16.07.1988

200 m

21,34

Florence GRIFFITH-JOYNER USA

Seoul

29.09.1988

Griffith-Joyner continues to impress today. Not only for her phenomenal running and incredible career rise, which happened to her quite late by the standards of athletics - at 29 years old. But also an appearance that can decorate any girl’s pop group, extravagant tights on one leg and much more. Her tragic death at age 38 under mysterious circumstances (the official cause of death was a heart attack, but many continue to doubt this to this day) only cemented Griffith-Joyner’s status as a mysterious legend.

Many tried to challenge Florence’s results. There is an opinion that the 100-meter race in Indianapolis was run with a strong tailwind, which for some reason was not recorded by the equipment. However, the second result of Griffith-Joyner (10.61), shown with permissible wind indicators, would still be a world record.

Lyudmila KONDRATIEVA , Olympic champion of Moscow-80 in the 100-meter dash, bronze medalist of Seoul-88 in the 4x100 m relay:

Griffith-Joyner is, of course, a legendary figure. Now there is no one to compare her with. She didn’t run - she flew like a bird, sprucing up and touching the path.

We didn't know each other personally. But I remember that at the Olympics in Seoul, during the races, there was no one to pin her number on her back. And she asked me - the closest one standing nearby. Even my little hands began to tremble - to pin a number on such a star. I was very pleased.

Of course she stood out. So stylish, always very well-groomed. These long nails, unusual overalls, extravagant outfits... She loved to experiment and was not shy about wearing some revealing things. Even in everyday life, I always dressed unusually. We were still young then and looked with all our eyes: wow, she’s so talented and at the same time so extravagant. I would call her a trendsetter.

The results shown by Florence are truly outstanding, what more can I say. Maybe someone will surpass them. But it seems to me that this will not happen soon. I would like, of course, to be wrong, but... The runners are now closer to her, especially at 200 m, but just a little. And at 100 m - even less. Maybe one day such a Bolt will appear in a female form in America or Jamaica - a championship has just been held there, and the results in the sprint are very high for both women and men.

Valentin MASLAKOV :

These are fantastic records. Although the American women are running well now, Jamaica is “waking up”. I think it will be especially difficult to break the 200m record. Still, 21.34 is a very high result for women. But in the 100-meter dash, I think one of the girls can surpass him.

400 m

47,60

Marita KOCH GDR

Canberra

06.10.1985

Marita Koch is best spoken for by her impressive statistics. Olympic champion, three-time world champion, who holds a total of 15 world records. She set the world record for 400 m at the age of 28. At one time, there were certain questions about Koch, like all representatives of the GDR, but Marita categorically denied all suspicions.

“I was relatively diligent, but not super-ambitious,” Koch said about herself in an interview with SE. “If necessary, I worked 120 percent and could be quite tough on myself. And height, weight - it was all about.” kay. My technique was also good - my running style was formed from childhood. I was quite strong, powerful - it’s important that my bones can withstand. Of course, I was happy when I set a record. At the same time, I understood that they would break it too. There are no eternal records.

Running 400 meters quickly takes a lot of work. You won’t set a record here easily or by accident. An athlete must run consistently over 48-something for a couple of years, and only then, perhaps, will she be able to make a breakthrough. Before I broke 48 seconds, I ran the 400-meter dash for 11 years, improving my results almost every year. Could I have run faster than 47.60? Probably not. Everything worked out optimally that day."

Valentin MASLAKOV :

Koch is a brilliant athlete in every way. Very talented. In addition, she had excellent preparation methods and pharmacological support. And all this, as they say, suited her very well. At one time, I conducted a lot of joint training with the Germans and I can say that it really worked in a new way, not the way everyone else trained at that time. I think her record will stand for a long, long time. Nowadays, female athletes can “run out” of 49 seconds, but 47 is, in our times, almost a man’s result.

800 m

1.53,28

Jarmila KRATOCHVILOVA Czechoslovakia

Munich

26.07.1983

The record of the then 32-year-old Kratokhvilova, set at a competition in Munich, is the longest-lived world achievement among women. She also once held the world record in the 400-meter dash (47.99), which was then taken by Marita Koch. At one time, the South African Caster Semenya was called the heiress of the Czechoslovakian athlete. After her impressive victory at the 2009 World Cup in Berlin, talk of a possible fall in Kratokhvilova's record was more popular than ever. However, the almost year-long investigation into Semenya's gender identity appears to have put an end to this story.

Valentin MASLAKOV :

I think that a new world record is not expected in this discipline in the near future. Although Caster Semenya could install it. Moreover, I know that she was aiming for this, she wanted to do it. Is she capable of this now, after returning to the track? I have the impression that now she is “burying” herself a little so as not to stand out too much.

Relay race 4x400 m

3.15,17

USSR

Tatiana LEDOVSKAYA

Olga NAZAROVA

Maria PINIGINA

Olga BRYZGINA

Seoul

01.10.1988

In recent years, this type of program has become a real super battle between the Russian and American teams. This is only to our advantage: in such conditions there is every chance of a new world record. We hope, of course, that victory here, as in the Olympic Seoul, will remain ours.

Valentin MASLAKOV :

This result, in principle, cannot be called some kind of fantastic. It’s just that at that time we had a very good quartet - all the girls ran around 49 seconds. If we put together a company like this now, we could have a new global one. And one day such a quartet will definitely get together. Not only we, but also the American women are showing strong results. For a long time they did not pay enough attention to relay races, considering personal events more prestigious. But now the psychology is changing, and not only for them. For example, Englishwomen are very interested in relay races.

100 m s/b

12,21

Jordanka DONKOVA Bulgaria

Stara Zagora

20.08.1988

Donkova’s highest world achievement, set in the year of her 27th birthday, recently almost left the list of long-lived records. On June 22, at the US Championships, 21-year-old American Brianna Rollins showed a result of 12.26, making several obvious mistakes. In view of this (Rollins knocked down one barrier and hit five more), as well as the athlete’s youth and lack of experience, everyone immediately started talking about the fact that Donkova’s record, apparently, is now first in line for “withdrawal.”

Valentin MASLAKOV :

Americans generally don’t hold their championships in bad conditions when something gets in the way. This is done just to show good results. And Rollins almost broke Donkova’s record. For this, of course, ideal conditions are needed. But I think if everything works out for her at a certain point, she is able to do this in the foreseeable future. So here we have every reason to be hopeful.

Height

2,09

Stefka KOSTADINOVA Bulgaria

Rome

30.08.1987

Kostadinova made her legendary jump at the age of 22 - and it was miraculously good, just like the blonde athlete herself. This world record, one of the oldest in women's athletics, has understandably attracted special attention in Russia since Anna Chicherova's winning streak began. Chicherova’s outstanding mentor Evgeniy Zagorulko has repeatedly hinted that the legendary Bulgarian’s achievement is achievable. And Chicherova herself said this about this last fall: “Some time ago I couldn’t even think about any world record. But last year in Brussels I jumped 2.10. And you know what? This record was very close. Yes, it really can be broken! And then, 25 years is too long for a world record."

Valentin MASLAKOV :

If it was just one jump, one could say that everything just came together for Kostadinova that day. But she had a lot of such jumps! So there is no question of any accident here. And yet I believe that an athlete may appear who will jump higher. Including among our girls. The same Anna Chicherova can easily do this. There is also young Maria Kuchina, who has very good potential.

Length

7,52

Galina CHISTYAKOVA USSR

Leningrad

11.06.1988

Another domestic record was set at the Znamensky Memorial and has since inspired a considerable number of athletes to take up long jumping. “I thought that if I moved the takeoff 10 cm closer, it would be enough to jump 7.50,” says Chistyakova herself, who was 25 years old at the time, in June 1988, about her legendary jump. “And so it happened.” “That is, this jump was absolutely under control. Not at full strength, but under control.”

Like other Soviet world record holders - Sedykh and Lisovskaya, Chistyakova ended up abroad after the collapse of the USSR. Now she has been living with her family in Slovakia for many years. Gives master classes for children.

Tatiana LEBEDEVA , Olympic champion:

In those days, when Heike Drechsler, Chistyakova, Jackie Joyner-Kersee competed among themselves, it seemed that girls would be able to jump 8 m. But since then the sport has changed a lot. Doping control has become stricter, the environment has become worse: look what we eat and what we breathe. There has also become more commerce - athletes can no longer afford to throw all their energy into one competition.

I once talked with my husband and coach Chistyakova, and he said that if they had started developing the triple jump a little earlier, Galina would have jumped 16 m. After all, even when her results had already begun to decline, when she began to suffer from injuries and was not developed training method, she jumped 14.70. Perhaps in the triple, Chistyakova could realize herself even more.

Even to me, an Olympic champion, the long jump of 7.50 seems fantastic. Now even if you jump over 7 m, this is already considered a grandmaster result.

Is it realistic to break Chistyakova’s record in the future? London Olympic champion Brittney Rees has a 7.25 this season, but I don't think she's capable of breaking the world record. After all, Reese is already a fairly experienced athlete. Her physical characteristics are excellent, even phenomenal, but psychologically she has not matured during this time. Reese is unstable. At one start he can jump 7.25, and at another - 5.90. And although after jumping 7.25, Reese promised to break the world record, for now it sounds a little funny. 7.25 and 7.50 - for the long jump this is heaven and earth.

Of the current athletes, I would only bet on Blessing Okagbare from Nigeria. At the age of 19, she completely unexpectedly became third in Beijing. Young, no load - she ran and jumped 6.93, setting a personal record. Then she focused on the sprint, became more powerful and now has very good results. But sometimes he continues to indulge in long jumps. Of course, it has a whole bunch of technical flaws - it takes its toll due to its phenomenal speed. But if Blessing focuses on length, tweaks her technique, and gets a little dryer, she could break the world record.

Core

22,63

Natalia LISOVSKAYA USSR

Moscow

07.06.1987

Another “home” world achievement: the then 24-year-old Lisovskaya established her final world achievement (there were two more before it, several years earlier) at the Moscow Druzhba stadium.

Valentin MASLAKOV :

Lisovskaya confidently pushed the shot at 20-21 m, so this was not the limit for her. Moreover, at that time her results were much higher, they were simply not included in official statistics. Let's say the results shown at home were not very welcome.

Can anyone get closer to Lisovskaya's record? There is a New Zealander, Valerie Adams, who consistently pushes beyond 20 m. But she is from the singles category, and in general the results are much lower. Theoretically, the New Zealander is probably capable of setting a world record. But now, when athletes are subject to increasingly strict control, it is difficult. I think that for Adams it is much easier to calmly push for 20 m and emerge victorious than to chase some records and then, God forbid, put your name and reputation at risk.

Disk

76,80

Gabriela RAINCH GDR

Neubrandenburg

09.07.1988

The then 24-year-old Reinsch set her world record, which turns 25 this year, on July 9, 1988 during an athletics match between Italy and the GDR. That season she improved her personal best by almost 10 meters. It’s paradoxical, but in addition to the world record, the athlete’s highest achievements in her career were 2nd place at the Junior European Championships in the shot put, 2nd place at the Universiade-87 (discus) and 4th at the European Championships-90 (discus). At the Olympics in Seoul, Reinsch remained only seventh with a score of 67.26.

Gabriela almost lost the main sporting achievement of her life. In September of the same 1988, Martina Hellmann showed even more distant throws in discus throwing. But due to the unofficial status of those starts, the world record remained with Reinsch.

Yuri DUMCHEV:

I know that German women threw many times in the area of 72-74 m. I myself have seen such throws many times. The female disc is an unpredictable species. It hit well - that's all!

Of course, 76.80 is a crazy result. For this to happen, absolutely everything must work out. For example, I had training results when I threw 77 m, many times, and even 78 m. But this was during training!

Valentin MASLAKOV :

This result is another legacy of the GDR, when everything and even more was done for achievements in sports. There was a whole system working for this. I don’t believe that Reinsch’s record will be broken. Now even throws beyond 67 m are considered a super result.

Heptathlon

7291 points

Jackie JOYNER-KERSEY USA

Seoul

24.09.1988

The breakdown of the record for Joyner-Kersee (26 years old), a representative of the legendary family of American athletics, is as follows: 12.69 (100 m s/b), 1.86 m (height), 15.80 m (core), 22.56 (200 m), 7.27 m (length), 45.66 m (spear), 2.08.51 (800 m). Joyner-Kersee managed to become not only a legendary heptathlete, but also wrote her name in the history of the long jump. The outstanding athlete, who managed to become an Olympic champion in two types of programs within the framework of one Games, holds the second result in the history of this event - 7.49 m.

Tatiana LEBEDEVA :

Jackie was very well built, athletic, and had excellent speed. And these strengths were developed through training. If an all-around athlete has speed, she is good at jumping, hurdles, and other events.

In general, Joyner-Kersee is ideal for me in terms of technique in the long jump. At one time we tried to copy it. She had a three and a half step way - not every man can do that. To successfully perform this, a person must fly at least 7 m. I know from myself: when I’m ready at 7 m, I can do it, but when only at 6.60, I already get an incomprehensible flickering. The flight phase is only a fraction of a second shorter, but you no longer have time to collect your legs in order to finally throw them correctly for landing.

Valentin MASLAKOV :

7291 points is, of course, a very high result. But not so much that he couldn't be beaten. Our Tatyana Chernova or Englishwoman Jessica Ennis can easily do this. For example, Chernova puts the shot at 13 m, but if she put the shot at 16, like some of her competitors, the result would be completely different. I think one day there will definitely be an athlete who can surpass Joyner-Kersee’s achievement.

As you know, the main Olympic motto is “faster, higher, stronger!” First uttered by the French priest Henri Didon and taken up by the founder of the modern Olympic movement, Pierre de Coubertin, it became a reflection of the main goal of all athletes in the world.

Perhaps these three words are perfectly applicable to athletics. Judge for yourself: faster - about running, higher - about jumping, stronger - about throwing (and pushing). And there is a category of people in this sport that corresponds to this motto to the maximum. We are talking about world record holders. And although the IAAF may deprive some of them of this status (), their names are forever inscribed in history.

On the eve of the World Championships in London, XSPORT decided to recall the most famous world records in athletics. Since it is not possible to talk about everyone due to the huge number of disciplines in the “queen of sports”, we decided to highlight the records, so we created several nominations. The only note is that our competition program included achievements only in those events that are included in the program of the Olympic Games and World Cups (in London, for the first time in the history of the World Championships, a 50 km walking competition among women will be held, so we are also considering this record).

YOUNGEST RECORD

Anita Wlodarczyk

Here our prize goes to the Polish hammer thrower Anita Wlodarczyk. In total, she broke the world record 6 times, and her last achievement dates back to August 28, 2016. A week after the closing of the Olympic Games in Rio, at which the athlete, by the way, also Wlodarczyk in her native Warsaw at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial. The Polish woman remains the only girl who managed to clear the 80-meter mark. And what’s most interesting is that at the same Games in Rio, her result was 4 meters further than that of Dilshod Nazarov, the Olympic champion among men.

The youngest also had every chance of becoming a record Ruth Jebet. On August 27, at the Diamond League stage in Paris, an athlete from Bahrain surpassed the achievement of Gulnara Galkina in steeplechase. However, just two days later, Wlodarczyk set her next record. At the World Championships in London, Jebet has a chance to get even with Anita, since her final will be 4 days later.

OLDEST RECORD

Jarmila Kratokhvilova (in first position)

Jarmila Kratokhvilova reached the peak of her career only at the age of 32. An athlete from the now defunct country of Czechoslovakia remained for a long time in the shadow of her rivals from the GDR at her favorite distance of 400 meters. In 1983, she came to a tournament in Munich, where she entered the 800-meter race. Jarmila ran two laps around the stadium in a record 1:53:28.

Two weeks later, Kratokhvilova competed at the first ever World Athletics Championships, which was hosted by Helsinki. In Finland, the Czech, despite an incredibly busy schedule, won gold in both the 400-meter and 800-meter events. Moreover, in the first event she again broke the world record, becoming the first athlete to run under 48 seconds (47.99). And although Marita Koch surpassed that achievement two years later (47.60 seconds), the 800-meter record has not been surpassed by anyone for 34 years, making it the longest standing.

FASTEST RECORD

Usain Bolt

At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin Usain Bolt ran the 100-meter dash in 9.58 seconds. The very next day, experts published data on the speed that Lightning developed. He covered the 60-80 meter section in 1.61 seconds, accelerating in this segment to 44.72 km/h. No one has ever run faster.

SLOWEST RECORD

Ines Enriquez (foreground)

As we have already said, the women's 50 km walk will make its debut at the world championships. This view will be the longest in London. Judge for yourself - the world record for a distance that approximately corresponds to the length of Kyiv from north to south is 4 hours 08 minutes 26 seconds. Its author is Ines Enriquez from Portugal. She established her achievement in the village of Porto de Mos in her homeland. Its average speed was 12 km/h.

HIGHEST RECORD

Sergey Bubka and Renaud Lavillenie

Since we agreed to consider only Olympic disciplines, our championship in this nomination goes to Sergey Bubka. Exactly 23 years ago, in the Italian highlands, a Ukrainian set his last world record in the pole vault - 6 m 14 cm. A year earlier in Donetsk, the Olympic champion of Seoul cleared the bar at a height of 6 m 15 cm. However, the Pole Stars tournament, which, as is known , always took place at the Druzhba Sports Palace, that is, indoors, but at the Games and World Championships they compete outdoors.

Bubka's Donetsk record was broken in 2014 Renault Lavillenie. At the same “Pole Stars” tournament and in front of Sergei Nazarovich himself, the Frenchman conquered 6.16 m. But let’s make a reservation once again, it was indoors. But Lavillenie’s personal best in stadiums is only 6.05 m.

Well, one last thing about this nomination. In 1991, Bubka won the last world championship gold as part of the USSR national team (the athlete won the world championships for Ukraine three more times). In Tokyo, he won with a modest result of 5.95 m. But thanks to computers, it was possible to establish that in his winning attempt he jumped with such a margin that he would have conquered the bar at a height of 6.37 m.

LONGEST RECORD

Uwe Hohn and Jan Zelezny

Here we immediately need to tell the background story. In the mid-1980s, the IAAF had to redesign the men's javelin. The center of gravity was shifted forward, causing the projectile to descend earlier than the older version with a center of gravity in the middle. The culprit of such changes was Uwe Hohn. In 1984, an athlete from the GDR threw the javelin 104.80 m, just two meters from the edge of the field. Such long-distance attempts endangered the safety of other athletes who were on the treadmill.

The projectile was changed, but several years passed, and the IAAF again began to think about the safety of this discipline. On May 25, 1996, at a competition in the German city of Jena, an outstanding Czech Jan Zelezny threw the javelin at 98.48 m. It is this achievement that is listed as the official world record, however, with the note “according to the new rules.” The farthest is Uwe Hohn's attempt at 104.80 meters.

THE MOST SENSATIONAL RECORD

This is, of course, the most subjective nomination in our ranking. And the championship here goes to the record set at the Olympic Games in Rio. The men's 400m final had no clear favorite. Before the start Kirani James, Lashawn Merritt And Weide van Niekerk were equally considered as contenders for gold. However, what the latter did became a real sensation. The South African produced a phenomenal run that lasted 17 years. Moreover, van Niekerk immediately took 15 hundredths from the result of the famous American. And in general, he almost ran out of 43 seconds - the chronometers recorded a result of 43.03 seconds.

Vaide is generally a unique athlete. He is the only athlete in history to run under 10 seconds in the 100m (9.98 seconds), under 20 seconds in the 200m (19.84 seconds) and under 44 seconds in the 400m. It’s funny that the athlete himself doesn’t really like the last distance. He once stated that...

Weide van Niekerk in front of his achievement

THE MOST AFFECTING RECORD

Kendra Harrison failed to qualify for the 2016 Olympics in Rio in the 100m hurdles. At the national qualifying tournament in the USA, the American showed only the fourth result. There were only three trips to Brazil. This was a real blow for the athlete. She was able to take out all her anger at the Diamond League stage in London, which took place a month before the 2016 Games. Harrison not only outperformed her teammates, but also. Kendra covered the distance in 12.20 seconds. But I still didn’t go to Brazil.

THE MOST TRAGIC RECORD

It's not often that world records are set at small local tournaments. But the achievement of the American Florence Griffith-Joyner just one of those. On one July day in 1988, at the Olympic qualifying competitions held in Indianapolis, she ran 100 meters in 10.49 seconds and broke the world record. And she did it at the 1/4 final stage. On the same day, but a little earlier, Florence covered the same distance in 10.60 seconds. But that time, which at that time was the fastest in history, was not counted as a record due to a strong tailwind. Interestingly, already in the quarterfinals, Griffith-Joyner was running in almost still air.

At the 1988 Games in Seoul, for which the athlete successfully qualified, she won three gold medals - in the 100-meter, 200-meter and 4x100-meter relay. Moreover, she covered 200 meters with a world record, which also holds to this day (21.34 seconds).

What made Griffith-Joyner's achievements tragic was her subsequent fate. Already in 1989, the athlete left professional sports at the peak of her fame. Even before this event, many colleagues and experts said that Florence was taking doping, and after the sudden end of her career, these conversations became more frequent. In 1990, the athlete began to have health problems and suffered heart attacks. Griffith-Joyner's sudden death at age 38 only added to the suspicion. However, her name is still on the list of world record holders. Moreover, in those sports that are considered elite in athletics.

Florence Griffith-Joyner after success at the Seoul Olympics

RECORD BREAKER

Another nomination in which the palm goes to Sergey Bubka. The Ukrainian pole vaulter became the first to clear the 6-meter bar. In total, the current NOC president has broken world records 35 times. And of course you can complain that each time he added one centimeter to the previous achievement. But just think about this number. For comparison, Elena Isinbaeva, who also pole vaulted, stopped at 20 world records.

OUR RECORD BREAKERS

Sergey Bubka, Inessa Kravets, Yuri Sedykh

Another nomination for Sergei Bubka. But here he must share the prize with two more colleagues. We talked a lot about the achievement of a pole vaulter above, but about Inessa Kravets haven't spoken yet. The athlete, born in Dnepr, specialized in the triple jump - the event that brought our country three Olympic awards (1 gold and 2 bronze). Kravets set her world record at the World Championships in Gothenburg in 1995. In the third attempt of the final, she landed at 15.50 meters with a tailwind of 0.9 m/s. A year later, Inessa became the first woman to win Olympic gold in the triple jump.

Partly ours can be considered Yuri Sedykh. A native of the city of Novocherkassk, Rostov region, he is a graduate of the Kyiv hammer throwing school. In 1986, at the European Championships, he sent the projectile to 86.74 m, and since then no one has surpassed the achievement of the two-time world champion.

BONUS RECORD

Here we just want to tell a beautiful story associated with the name Bob Beamon. His record in the long jump ceased to be relevant in 1991. However, at the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968, he shocked the whole world. The American took a run and landed at 8.90 meters (Mike Powell's current highest achievement is only 5 cm further). He broke the previous world record by as much as 55 cm. Lynn Davis, defending his Olympic title, approached Beamon and said: “You destroyed this discipline.”

Bob Beamon at the Mexico City Olympics

When the stadium announcer announced the numbers, the culprit himself fell to his knees, covered his face with his hands and could not get up without outside help. It is interesting that the automatic range meters that existed at that time were not designed for such a result, and the distance had to be measured manually. After that event, a new adjective beamonesque appeared in the English language, which means some unthinkable feat.

Scientists have found explanations for Beamon's record. Firstly, the competition took place at a significant altitude above sea level, which, due to the characteristics of the air, contributed to long jumps. After that, elite level tournaments were not held at such a high level. Secondly, Bob was helped by a strong tailwind, and its strength was the maximum permissible - about 2 m/s. Well, after the American’s jump there was a heavy downpour, which created not the most favorable conditions for the rest of the participants. However, all these factors do not make Binom’s record any less legendary.

In recent years, breaking world records has become commonplace. For example, in 2016 this was done five times. Often the highest achievements are celebrated at major tournaments. At the Olympic Games of different years, nine current world records were set, and at the World Championships - eight. Therefore, at the upcoming World Cup in London, we may well see the WR mark next to some result. Moreover, 13 world record holders will perform in London.

Current record holders who will compete at the 2017 World Championships: