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Sports rankings here are race times for one event. Mixing a 100 m with a marathon would rank unlike clocks together, so each event is its own list. The men's outdoor 100 m has twelve legal personal bests from the World Athletics all-time list, the public toplist and Athletic Stats. The women's 100 m, the men's and women's 200 m, and the men's 400 m are the same kind of list: one personal best per athlete, legal wind where wind applies, World Athletics as the rank.

8 live rankings59 entries

The lineup · Sports

Meet the fastest

The top of each live list, one card per entry. Each rank is within its own list.

  • Usain Bolt

    100 m · Jamaica

    Race time
    9.58sOfficial

    #1 of 12 · Fastest 100 m Sprinters

  • Usain Bolt

    men's 200 m · Jamaica

    Race time
    19.19sOfficial

    #1 of 9 · Fastest Men's 200 m

  • Wayde van Niekerk

    men's 400 m · South Africa

    Race time
    43.03sOfficial

    #1 of 9 · Fastest Men's 400 m

  • Sabastian Sawe

    Marathon · Kenya

    Race time
    1:59:30Official

    #1 of 4 · Fastest Men's Marathon

  • Kate Douglass

    50 m freestyle · United States

    Race time
    23.19sVerified

    #1 of 3 · Fastest Women's 50 m Freestyle

  • Satwiksairaj Rankireddy

    Guinness fastest hit · 2023

    Ball speed
    565km/h351mph157m/s305knOfficial5.4× cheetah

    #1 of 3 · Fastest Hits

  • Tyson Gay

    100 m · United States

    Race time
    9.69sOfficial

    Tied for 2nd of 12 · Fastest 100 m Sprinters

  • Yohan Blake

    men's 200 m · Jamaica

    Race time
    19.26sOfficial

    #2 of 9 · Fastest Men's 200 m

  • Shericka Jackson

    women's 200 m · Jamaica

    Race time
    21.41sOfficial

    #2 of 9 · Fastest Women's 200 m

  • Michael Johnson

    men's 400 m · United States

    Race time
    43.18sOfficial

    #2 of 9 · Fastest Men's 400 m

  • Yomif Kejelcha

    Marathon · Ethiopia

    Race time
    1:59:41Official

    #2 of 4 · Fastest Men's Marathon

  • Gretchen Walsh

    50 m freestyle · United States

    Race time
    23.55sVerified

    #2 of 3 · Fastest Women's 50 m Freestyle

  • Tan Boon Heong

    Previous Guinness hit · 2013

    Ball speed
    493km/h306mph137m/s266knOfficial4.7× cheetah

    #2 of 3 · Fastest Hits

Rankings

Sports rankings

  • Sports

    10 ranked

    Fastest Women's 100 m

    Current #1

    Florence Griffith-Joyner

    37.8km/h23.5mph10.5m/s20.4knOfficial

  • Sports

    9 ranked

    Fastest Men's 200 m

    Current #1

    Usain Bolt

    69.1km/h42.9mph19.2m/s37.3knOfficial

    9 of 10 entries needed to publish

  • Sports

    9 ranked

    Fastest Women's 200 m

    Current #1

    Florence Griffith-Joyner

    76.8km/h47.7mph21.3m/s41.5knOfficial

    9 of 10 entries needed to publish

  • Sports

    9 ranked

    Fastest Men's 400 m

    Current #1

    Wayde van Niekerk

    155km/h96.3mph43.0m/s83.6knOfficial

    9 of 10 entries needed to publish

  • Sports

    4 ranked

    Fastest Men's Marathon

    Current #1

    Sabastian Sawe

    7.17km/s16,040mphOfficial

    4 of 10 entries needed to publish

  • Sports

    3 ranked

    Fastest Hits

    Current #1

    Satwiksairaj Rankireddy

    565km/h351mph157m/s305knOfficial

    3 of 10 entries needed to publish

The men's marathon is road time, still race time, still its own page. Long-course 50 m freestyle is split by the men's and women's record lists so the clocks are not compared. A mark a compiler still flags as awaiting ratification is stored as verified. Wind above +2.0 m/s is not legal and is not ranked.

The men's 100 m and the women's 100 m clear ten entries and can be indexed. The 200 m and 400 m lists are one short of that gate because the next names were not in all three compilations. Ball sports and the cycling sprint stay unpublished. Checked 8 October 2026.