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Who would be the new world record holders?

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Rachid Parchment
May 13, 2017
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The United States' Lashawn Merritt would form part of the new world record men's 4x400m team.
Veronica Campbell-Brown would become the new indoor world record holder.
Bekele would lose his world record in the men's 5000m of 12:37.35 to fellow Ethiopian Dejen Gebremeskel. Gebremeskel clocked 12:46.81 in 2012.
Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer Annsert Whyte (left) looks perplexed as he finishes the men's 400m hurdles final in sixth place behind the Untied States' Kerron Clement (right) in the final at the Rio Olympic Games. Clement would become the new 400m hurdles world record holder.
Schippers would become the new world record holder over 200m
Sanya Richards-Ross would become the new 400m world record holder.
Jamaica' Melaine Walker clears a hurdle on her way ton win the gold in the women's 400-metre hurdles final during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium on August 20, at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China.
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Merlene Ottey is in danger of losing her 200m indoor record.
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New proposals from European track and field governing body European Athletics could see many athletes stripped of their world medals, set before 2005, depending on a vote this summer.

This means that the IAAF would then replace these records with the next best times and distances set at specific meets within its jurisdiction, in order to be ratified.

The following are what the records are at the moment, and what the records would become, if the proposal gets the backing it needs.

 

Women

 

Outdoor 100m

Old: Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) July 17, 1988 10.49

New: Carmelita Jeter (USA) September 20, 2009 10.64

200m

Old: Florence Griffith- Joyner (USA) September 29, 1988 21.34

New: Dafne Schippers (NED) August 28, 2015 21.63

400m

Old: Marita Koch (GER) October 6, 1985 47.60

New: Sanya Richards-Ross (USA) September 16, 2006 48.70

400m Hurdles

Old: Yuliya Pechenkina (RUS) August 8, 2003 52.34

New: Melaine Walker (JAM) August 20, 2009 52.42

4x400m Relays

Old: USSR (Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Kulchunova-Pinigina, Olga Vladykina-Bryzgina) October 1, 1988 3:15.17

New: USA (Deedee Trotter, Allyson Felix, Francena McCorory, Sanya Richards-Ross) August 11, 2012 3:16.87

Indoor

60m

Old: Irina Privalova (RUS) February 11, 1993 6.92

New: LaVerne Jones-Ferrette (USV) February 6, 2010 6.97

200m

Old: Merlene Ottey (JAM) February 13, 1993 21.87

New: Veronica Campbell-Brown (JAM) February 18, 2005 22.38

 

Men

 

Outdoor

400m Hurdles

Old: Kevin Young (USA) August 6, 1992 46.78

New: Kerron Clement (USA) June 26, 2005 47.24

1500m

Old: Hicham El Guerrouj (MOR) July 14, 1998 3:26.00

New: Asbel Kiprop (KEN) July 17, 2015 3:26.69

High Jump

Old: Javier Sotomayor (CUB) July 27, 1993 2.45m

New: Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) September 5, 2014 2.43m

Long Jump

Old: Mike Powell (USA) August 30, 1991 8.95m

New: Dwight Phillips (USA) June 7, 2009 8.74m

 

Triple Jump

Old: Jonathan Edwards (GBR) August 7, 1995 18.29m

New: Christian Taylor (USA) August 27, 2015 18.21m

4x400m

Old: USA (Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Harry Reynolds, Michael Johnson) August 22, 1993 2:54.29

New: USA (LaShawn Merritt, Angelo Taylor, David Neville, Jeremy Wariner) August 23, 2008 2:55.39

Indoor

200m

Old: Frank Fredericks (NAM) February 18, 1996 19.92

New: Wallace Spearmon (USA) March 11, 2005 20.10

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