Track & Field World Record that have resisted time!

Who are the world records in athletics that have resisted time?

I belong to a generation that grew up with sports and the champions of the 80s and early 90s! For the past 15 years, I have followed Football, Athletics, Swimming, Gymnastics, Skiing, Hockey, Figure Skating, Boxing, Equestrianism, Tennis, almost every sport included in the Summer or Winter Olympic Games, up to Formula 1 Automobile, with the champions of the time. , Prost, Sena, Piquet, Mansell etc.

In fact, I haven’t been following them for a long time, I even forgot to calculate when was the last year of my interest in sports… maybe around there. 2010.

Maybe because from that year the notes start to become rare until they are completely lost in my collection! However, one night I became curious and started searching to learn about world records in Athletics, so today in 2020, is there still any such record set during the 80s by the athletes of that generation?!

I thought! A lot of time has passed, of course athletics has changed as well as all sports in general, so it is difficult to still have any names like Carl Lewis, Ben Johnson, Steve Cream, Sergej Bubka, Stefka Kostandinova, East German women with Marita Koh, Marlize Goer…

Anyway, I couldn’t resist this temptation… and in the men’s competitions, in the discus and the hammer, the records of East German Jurgen Shult (74.08m) set in Neubrandenburg, Germany, still stand today. that on 6-06-1986 and the athlete Juri Sedik of the Soviet Union (86.74m) on 30-08-86.

Then, another record set in the high jump by the Cuban Javier Sotomajor in 1993 (2.45m), set in Salamanca, still stands. Here is another Italian one in the 30Km sports walk, set by Mauricio Damilano (2h; 1.44) in Cuneo, Italy on October 3, 1992.

Even the US American relay of 4x400m (2.24.59) still stands since August 22, 1993, set in Gotlieb Damlier, in the stadium of Stuttgart. So in total, there are 5 records in men’s races still unbroken. In the women’s competitions, the 100m (10.49) and 200m (21.34) records set respectively on July 16, 1988 in Indianapolis and September 29, 1988 in Seoul at the Olympic Games, by the US American Florenc Griffith Joyner, still stand, although this athlete unfortunately did not live with Xhojner will change his life after 10 years on September 21, 1998.

Also, the record set by Czech Jarmila Kratoshvilova in 800m (1.53.28) from July 26, 1983 and by East German Marita Koch in 400m (47.60) from 26 October 1985 performed at Bruse Stadium in Kambera, Australia. Likewise, the name of the Bulgarian Stefka Kostandinova as a high jump record (2.09m) set on August 30, 1987 has not been erased since the Rome World Championship. Even in the long jump (7.52m) Galina Cistiakova of BS continues to maintain her record set on June 11, 1988. In the shot put competition (22.63m) Natalia Lisovskaja of BS, since June 7, 1987, as and that of the discus (76.80) by Gabriela Reinsh of GDR, which on July 9, 1988, still stands the test of time.

Further along in this tracking, we find that the record of the American Jackie Joyner Kersi in the 7-race (7291 points) established on September 24, 1988 at the Olympic Games in Seoul is still in force. With the BS girls’ 4x 400m relay (3.15.17) established on October 1, 1988 also at the Seoul Games, where it still stands as a world record, this record for women’s races is also closed with a total of 9 that resist it. time, reaching 14 records in total, men and women, which still remain unbroken today in December 2020.

By Pjerin Bj (Sun 17 December 2020 / 10:30 AM – 11:27 PM)

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