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Clinic All Clear Olympic & World records
New World Records
400-meter Medley Relay(Women's) USA 3:58.30 Dho Dala
400-meter Medley Relay(Men's) USA 3:33.73 Dho Dala
Swimming
Event Record Holder Record Date Status Record Breaker Record
50-meter Freestyle Alexander Popov (Russia) 21:64 16-06-2000 SAFE!    
100-meter Freestyle Alexander Popov(Rus) 48:21 18-06-1994 Dho Dala! Pieter van den Hoogenband 47:84
200-meter Freestyle Ian Thorpe (Aus) 1:45.51 15-05-2000 Dho Dala! Pieter van den Hoogenband 1:45.35
400-meter Freestyle Ian Thorpe (Aus) 3:41.33 13-05-2000 Dho Dala! Ian Thorpe (Aus) 3:40.59
800-meter Freestyle Kieren Perkins (Aus) 14:41.66 24-08-1994 SAFE!    
100-meter Backstroke Lenny Krayzelburg (USA) 53.60 24-08-1999 SAFE!    
200-meter Backstroke Lenny Krayzelburg (USA) 1:55.87 27-08-1999 SAFE!    
100-meter Breaststroke Roman Sloudnov (Russia) 1:00.36 15-06-2000 SAFE!    
200-meter Breaststroke Mike Barrowman (USA) 2:10.16 29-07-1992 SAFE!    
100-meter Butterfly Michael Klim (Aus) 0:51.81 12-12-1999 SAFE!    
200-meter Butterfly Tom A. Malchow (USA) 1:55.18 17-06-2000 SAFE!    
200-meter Individual Medley Jani Sievinen (Finland) 1:58.16 11-09-1994 SAFE!    
400-meter Individual Medley Tom Dolan (USA) 4:12.30 06-09-1994 SAFE!    
4x100-meter Freestyle Relay USA 3:15.11 12-08-1995 SAFE!    
4x200-meter Freestyle Relay Australia 7:08.79 25-08-1999 Dho Dala! Australia 7:05.00
4x100-meter Medley Relay USA 3:34.84 26-07-1996 Dho Dala! USA 3:33.73
Track and Field
100m Maurice Green (USA) 9.79 16.06.99 SAFE!
200m Michael Johnson (USA) 19.32 01.08.96 SAFE!
400m Michael Johnson (USA) 43.18 26.08.99 SAFE!
800m Wilson Kipketer (DENMARK) 1:41.11 24.08.97 SAFE!
1500m Hicham El Guerrouj (MOROCCO) 3:26.00 14.07.98 SAFE!
5000m Haile Gebrselassie (ETHOPIA) 12:39.36 13.06.98 SAFE!
10000m Haile Gebrselassie (ETHOPIA) 26:22.75 01.06.98 SAFE!
Marathon Khalid Khannouchi (MOROCCO) 2:05:42 24.10.99 SAFE!
110 m hurdles Colin Jackson (G. BRITAIN) 12:91 20.08.93 SAFE!
400 m hurdles Kevin Young(USA) 46.78 06.08.92 SAFE!
3000 m steeplechase Bernard Barmasai (KENYA) 7:55.72 25.08.97 SAFE!
4X100 m relay The US team (USA) 37.40 08.08.92 SAFE!
4X400 m relay The US team (USA) 2:54.20 22.07.98 SAFE!
20 000 m walk Bernardo Segura(MEXICO) 1:17:25.607.05.94 SAFE!
50 000 m walk Thierry Toutain (FRANCE) 3:40:57.9 29.09.96 SAFE!
High jump Javier Sotomayor(CUBA) 2.45 m 27.07.93 SAFE!
Pole vault Serhei Bubka(UKRAINE) 6.14 m 31.07.94 SAFE!
Long jump Mike Powell(USA) 8.95 m 30.08.91 SAFE!
Triple jump Jonathan Edwards (G. BRITAIN) 18.29 m 07.08.95 SAFE!
Shot Put Randy Barnes (USA) 23.12 m 20.05.90 SAFE!
Discus throw Jürgen Schult (E GERMANY) 74.08 m 06.06.86 SAFE!
Hammer throw Yuri Sedykh (S UNION) 86.74 m 30.08.86 SAFE!
Javelin throw Jan Zelezny (Czech Rep) 98.48 m 25.05.96 SAFE!
Decathlon Tomas Dvorak (Czech Rep) 8994 pts 04.07.99 SAFE!

Track and Field World Records for Women (22 events)

Event Record Holder Record Date Status Record Breaker Record
100m Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) 10.49 16.07.88 SAFE!
200m Florence Griffith-Joyner(USA) 21.34 29.09.88 SAFE!
400m Marita Koch(GDR) 47.60 06.10.85 SAFE!
800m Jamila Kratochvilova(CZECH) 1:53.28 26.07.83 SAFE!
1500m Qu Yunxia(CHINA) 3:50.46 11.09.93 SAFE!
5000m Jiang Bo(CHINA) 14:28.09 23.10.97 SAFE!
10000m Wang Junxia (CHINA) 29:31.78 08.09.93 SAFE!
marathon Tegla Loroupe(KENYA) 2:20.43 26.09.99 SAFE!
100 hurdles Yordanka Donkova(BULGARIA) 12.21 20.08.88 SAFE!
400 hurdles Kim Batten(USA) 52.61 11.08.95 SAFE!
4X100 m relay The East German team(E GERMANY) 41.37 06.10.85 SAFE!
4X400 m relay The Soviet Union team(S UNION) 3:15.17 01.10.88 SAFE!
20 000m walk Tatyana Gudkova(RUSSIA) 41.37 06.10.85 SAFE!
High jump Stefka Kostandinova(BULGARIA) 2.09 m 30.08.87 SAFE!
Pole vault Stacy Dragila(USA) 4.63 m 23.07.00 SAFE!
Long jump Galina Chistyakova(S UNION) 7.52 m 11.06.88 SAFE!
Triple jump Inessa Kravets(UKRAINE) 15.50 m 10.08.95 SAFE!
Shot Put Natalya Lisovskaya(S UNION) 22.63 m 07.06.87 SAFE!
Discus throw Gabriele Reinsch(E GERMANY) 76.80 m 09.07.88 SAFE!
Hammer throw Mihaela Melinte(ROMANIA) 75.97 m 13.05.99 SAFE!
Javelin throw Trine Hattestad(NORWAY) 69.48 m 28.07.00 SAFE!
Heptathlon Jackie Joyner-Kersee(USA) 7291 pts 24.09.88 SAFE!
Swimming
50-meter Freestyle Inge de Bruijn (Holland) 24.13 22.9.00 Dho Dala!
100-meter Freestyle Inge de Bruijn (Holland) 53.80 28.5.00 Dho Dala! Inge de Bruijn (Holland) 53.77
200-meter Freestyle Franziska van Almsick (Germany) 1:56.78 6.9.94 SAFE!
400-meter Freestyle Janet Evans (USA) 4:03.85 22.9.88 SAFE!
800-meter Freestyle Janet Evans (USA) 8:16.22 20.8.89 SAFE!
100-meter Backstroke He Cihong (China) 1:00.16 10.9.94 SAFE!
200-meter Backstroke Krisztina Egerszegi (Hun) 2:06.62 25.8.91 SAFE!
100-meter Breaststroke Penelope Heyns (SAf) 1:06.52 23.8.99 SAFE!
200-meter Breaststroke Penelope Heyns (SAf) 2:23.64 27.8.99 SAFE!
100-meter Butterfly Inge de Bruijn (Holland) 56.69 27.5.00 SAFE!
200-meter Butterfly Susan O'Neill (Aus) 2:05.81 17.5.00 SAFE!
200-meter Individual Medley Yanyan Wu (China) 2:09.72 17.10.97 SAFE!
400-meter Individual Medley Yan Chen (China) 4:34.79 13.10.97 Dho Dala! Yana Klochkova(Ukraine) 4:33.59
400-meter Freestyle Relay China 3:37.91 7.09.94 Dho Dala! US 3:36.61

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