Athletics Fans: World record videos

[jimevs]

I'm sure you can find all of these and probably more elsewhere but if you've got 10 mins to spend here is a nice video of Men's athletics world records. Has track events from 100m-1500 plus hurdles and then field events to follow including Zelezny's big throw:

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TjIq2kpBytw&NR=1

Just wondered which record people think is the best out of these? I think that Michael Johnson's 200m record is the hardest to beat. Interesting though to look at the men's 110m hurdles and the Mile records. Those are serious races to break the world record, not purely time trials which the 100,200,400 and 800 appear to be.

In the field Zelezny's must be the most untouchable in my opinion while Edwards TJ record is the most controlled effort of all. The guy just stepped out of the pit with his arms in the air knowing exactly what he had done and it didn't even seem to phase him - world class!

James

[jimevs]

Can't not mention Mike Powell though!! Knew that Lewis had just jumped a windy 8.91 so he had to break the world record for gold and boy did he fly!

[tshield]

The maths are in favour of Zelezny. The number two distance of all time is 5.5% short of his. This is a crazy gap. Johnson's gap on the number two performance is less than 2%. For Johnson's record to match JZ's the next best time would need to be 20+ and there are a large number of folk within 5% of Johnson.