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Olympic Games Running Records [Updated July 2025]

July 20, 2025
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What are the Olympic Records in the main running races? We look at the fastest times run in the Olympics and compare them to the World Records in the same events. 

Updated July 2025.

We’ve listed all the running Olympic records below. We’ve also compared them all to the World Record times in each event, including: 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 5000m, 10,000m and the marathon.

The only events where the world record was run in the Olympic Games are:

Women’s 200m

Men’s 400m

Men’s 800m  

WHY ARE OLYMPIC RECORDS SLOWER THAN WORLD RECORDS?

As we’ve listed above, only three current running world records were run at an Olympic Games.

One reason is that the Olympics are only every four years, and come with additional pressure on performance, because winning an Olympic medal – especially a gold medal – can be a life-changing achievement for a runner.

In short distance races, it’s an all-out effort to win, so we see faster times. But in middle distance, long distance and marathon races the events become more tactical at the Olympics compared to regular season meets, with runners not wanting to push ahead and burn up. It’s more important to win a medal than to break a record in the Olympic Games. The weather at summer games can also be a factor in faster times.

All details on all major running World Records can be found here. Or you can see the top 20 men and women marathon times here. 

WOMEN’S OLYMPIC RECORDS

DISTANCEWHOOLYMPIC GAMESOLYMPIC RECORDWORLD RECORD100mElaine Thompson-HerahTokyo 202110.6110.49200mFlorence Griffith-JoynerSeoul 198821.3421.34400mMarie-Jose PerecAtlanta 199648.2547.60800mNadezhda OlizarenkoMoscow 198001:53.431:53.281500mFaith KipyegonTokyo 202103:53.113:48.685,000mVivian CheruiyotRio 201614:26.1713:58.0610,000mAlmaz AyanaRio 201629:17.4528:54.14MarathonSifan HassanParis 202402:22:5502:09:56

MEN’S OLYMPIC RECORDS

DISTANCEWHOOLYMPIC GAMESOLYMPIC RECORDWORLD RECORD100mUsain BoltLondon 20129.639.58200mUsain BoltBeijing 200819.3019.19400mWayne van NiekerkRio 201643.0343.03800mDavid RudishaLondon 201201:40.9101:40.911500mCole HockerParis 202403:27.6503:26.005,000mKenenisa BekeleBeijing 200812:57.8212:35.3610,000mJoshua CheptegeiParis 202426:43.1426:11.00MarathonTamirat TolaParis 202402:06:2602:00:35

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THE MARATHON WORLD RECORD
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF AN OLYMPIC RUNNER

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