Event Performance Athlete Nation Place Date
100 m 9.72 Usain Bolt  Jamaica New York City NY, USA May 31
9.69 Beijing, China August 16
200 m 19.30 August 20
4 x 100 m relay 37.10 Nesta Carter
Michael Frater
Usain Bolt
Asafa Powell
August 22
110 m hurdles 12.87 Dayron Robles  Cuba Ostrava, Czech Republic June 12
50 km race walk 3:34:14 Denis Nizhegorodov  Russia Cheboksary, Russia May 11
Marathon 2:03:59 Haile Gebrselassie  Ethiopia Berlin, Germany September 28