World Indoor Championships Meet Records

Men

60 – 6.42 – Maurice Greene, US – ’99
200 – 20.10 – Frankie Fredericks, NAM – ’99
400 – Butch Reynolds, US – ’93
800 – 1:42.67 – Wilson Kipketer, DEN – ’97
1500 – 3:33.77 – Haile Gebrselassie, ETH – ’99
3000 – 7:34.71 – Haile Gebrselassie, ETH – ’97
60H – 7.36 – Allen Johnson, US – ’04
4×4 – 3:02.83 – US (Morris, D. Johnson, Minor, Campbell) – ’99
HJ – 2.43 – Javier Sotomayor, CUB – ’89
PV – 6.00 – Sergey Bubka, UKR – ’91
PV – 6.00 – Jean Galfione, FRA – ’99
LJ – 8.62 – Ivan Pedroso, CUB ’99
TJ – 17.83 – Chrisitian Olson, SWE – ’04
SP – 22.24 – Ulf Timmerman, GDR – ’87
Hept – 6476 – Dan O’Brien, US – ’93

Women

60 – 6.95 -Gail Devers, US – ’93
200 – 22.15 – Irina Privalova, RUS – ’93
400 – Olesya Krasnomovets, RUS – ’06
800 – 1:56.90 – Ludmila Formanova, CZE – ’99
1500 – 3:59.75 – Geleta Burka, ETH – ’08
3000 – 8:33.82 – Elly van Hulst, NED ’89
60H – 7.75 – Perdita Felicien, CAN – ’04
4×4 – 3:23.88 – RUS (Krasnomovets, Kotlyarova, Levina, Nazarova) ’04
HJ – 2.05 – Stefka Kostadinova, BUL – ’87
PV – 4.86 – Yelena Isinbayeva, RUS ’04
LJ – 7.10 – Heika Dreschsler, GDR – ’87
TJ – 15.36 – Tatyana Lebedeva, RUS – RUS – ’03
SP – 20.55 – Irina Korzhanenko, RUS ’03
Pent – 4933 – Carolina Kluft, SWE – ’03

Most Medals

Men – Javier Sotomayor, CUB – 6 (4 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
Women – Maria Mutola, MOZ – 9 (7 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)

Previous World Championships Locations

1987 – Indianapolis, United States
1989 – Budapest, Hungary
1991 – Seville, Spain
1993 – Toronto, Canada
1995 – Barcelona, Spain
1997 – Paris, France
1999 – Maebashi, Japan
2001 – Lisbon, Portugal
2003 – Birmingham, Great Britain
2004 – Budapest, Hungary
2006 – Moscow, Russia
2008 – Valencia, Spain