| Records du monde outdoor au 09 Juin 2001 | |||||||||||
| Hommes | Femmes | ||||||||||
| Discipline | Competiteur | Pays | Annee | WR | Competitrice | Pays | Annee | WR | |||
| 100m | Maurice Greene | USA | 1999 | 9.79 | Florence Griffith-Joyner | USA | 1988 | 10.49 | |||
| 200m | Michael Johnson | USA | 1996 | 19.32 | Florence Griffith-Joyner | USA | 1988 | 21.34 | |||
| 400m | Michael Johnson | USA | 1999 | 43.18 | Marita Koch | GDR | 1985 | 47.60 | |||
| 800m | Wilson Kipketer | DEN | 1997 | 1:41.11 | Jarmila Kratochvilova | TCH | 1983 | 1:53.28 | |||
| 1500m | Hicham El Guerrouj | MAR | 1998 | 3:26.00 | Yunxia Qu | CHN | 1993 | 3:50.46 | |||
| Mile | Hicham El Guerrouj | MAR | 1999 | 3:43.13 | Sveltana Masterkova | RUS | 1996 | 4:12.56 | |||
| 3000m | Daniel Komen | KEN | 1996 | 7:20.67 | Junxia Wang | CHN | 1993 | 8:06.11 | |||
| 5000m | Haile Gebrselassie | ETH | 1998 | 12:39.36 | Bo Jiang | CHN | 1997 | 14:28.09 | |||
| 10000m | Haile Gebrselassie | ETH | 1998 | 26:22.75 | Junxia Wang | CHN | 1993 | 29:31.78 | |||
| 3000m steeple | Bernard Barmasai | KEN | 1997 | 7:55.72 | Cristina Iloc-Casandra | ROM | 2000 | 9:40.20 | |||
| 110m (100m) haies | Colin Jackson | GBR | 1993 | 12.91 | Yordonka Donkova | BUL | 1988 | 12.21 | |||
| 400m haies | Kevin Young | USA | 1992 | 46.78 | Kim Batten | USA | 1995 | 52.61 | |||
| Hauteur | Javier Sotomayor | CUB | 1993 | 2m45 | Stefka Kostadinova | BUL | 1997 | 2m09 | |||
| Perche | Sergey Bubka | UKR | 1993 | 6m14 | Stacy Dragila | USA | 2001 | 4m81 | |||
| Longueur | Mike Powell | USA | 1991 | 8m95 | Galina Chistyakova | URS | 1988 | 7m52 | |||
| Triple saut | Jonathan Edwards | GBR | 1995 | 18m29 | Inessa Kravetz | UKR | 1995 | 15m50 | |||
| Poids | Randy Barnes | USA | 1990 | 23m12 | Natalya Lisovskaya | URS | 1987 | 22m63 | |||
| Disque | Jurgen Schult | GDR | 1986 | 74m08 | Gabriele Reinsch | GDR | 1988 | 76m80 | |||
| Marteau | Yuriy Sedikh | URS | 1986 | 86m74 | Mihaela Melinte | ROM | 1999 | 76m07 | |||
| Javelot | Jan Zelezny | GRE | 1996 | 98m48 | Osleidis Menendez | CUB | 2001 | 71m54 | |||
| Decathlon (Heptathlon) | Roman Sebrle | CZE | 2001 | 9026 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee | FRA | 1988 | 7291 | |||
| 4x100m | USA | USA | 1992-93 | 37.40 | Allemagne | GER | 1985 | 41.37 | |||
| 4x400m | USA | USA | 1998 | 2:54.20 | URSS | URS | 1988 | 3:15.17 | |||