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  • Post-Championship World Bests

    Since there is no official list for post-championship all-time world bests, here:s a look at the best performances ever legally recorded by athletes who competed in the same championship (defined as an outdoor IAAF WC and/or OG) event the same season. Marathon, walks and hep/dec have been excluded, as they are not part of the GP/GL circuit.

    Feel free to use this to compare how "boring" performances may be following any given championship, or how athletes may be faring against the best performances ever recorded following a major championship.

    There are a number of occasions here where folks have been able to hold a peak past a championship - and not simply up to it. Others have bombed in the given championship and made up for it.


    Key: Event, Athlete PB, Athlete PCPB, Championship Result, Name, Year

    Track Events

    100m:
    00.09,72 ..... 00.09,72 ..... 00.09,95 ..... Asafa Powell ..... 2008
    00.10,74 ..... 00.10,74 ..... 00.10,94 ..... Merlene Ottey ..... 1996

    200m:
    00.19,30 ..... 00.19,63 ..... 00.19,30 ..... Usain Bolt ..... 2008
    00.21,64 ..... 00.21,64 ..... 00.22,21 ..... Merlene Ottey ..... 1991

    400m:
    00.43,45 ..... 00.43,82 ..... 00.44,74 ..... Jeremy Wariner ..... 2008
    00.48,70 ..... 00.48,92 ..... 00.49,74 ..... Sanya Richards ..... 2005

    800m:
    01.41,11 ..... 01.41,11 ..... 01.43,38 ..... Wilson Kipketer ..... 1997
    01.54,01 ..... 01.54,01 ..... 01.54,87 ..... Pamela Jelimo ..... 2008

    1.500m:
    03.26,00 ..... 03.26,12 ..... 03.30,68 ..... Hicham El Guerrouj ..... 2001
    03.52,47 ..... 03.52,47 ..... 03.56,56 ..... Tatyana Kazankina ..... 1980

    steeple:
    07.55,28 ..... 07.55,28 ..... 08.21,95 ..... Brahim Boulami ..... 2001
    09.15,04 ..... 09.16,46 ..... 09.18,24 ..... Dorcus Inzikuru ..... 2005

    5.000m:
    12.39,74 ..... 12.39,74 ..... 13.07,38 ..... Daniel Komen ..... 1997
    14.12,88 ..... 14.28,98 ..... 14.39,54 ..... Meseret Defar ..... 2005

    10.000m:
    26.17,53 ..... 26.17,53 ..... 27.08,33 ..... Kenenisa Bekele ..... 2005
    29.31,78 ..... 29.31,78 ..... 30.49,30 ..... Wang Junxia ..... 1993

    110mh:
    00.12,92 ..... 00.12,92 ..... 00.12,95 ..... Allen Johnson ..... 1996
    00.12,39 ..... 00.12,39 ..... 00.12,56 ..... Vera Komisova ..... 1980

    400mh:
    00.47,02 ..... 00.47,32 ..... 00.47,75 ..... Edwin Moses ..... 1984
    00.52,62 ..... 00.52,90 ..... 00.52,62 ..... Tonja Buford-Bailey ..... 1995


    Field Events

    Long jump:
    08.74m ..... 08.66m ..... 08.33m ..... Larry Myricks ..... 1987
    07.48m ..... 07.32m ..... 07.29m ..... Heike Drechsler ..... 1991

    Triple jump:
    18.29m ..... 18.00m ..... 18.29m ..... Jonathan Edwards ..... 1995
    15.15m ..... 15.15m ..... 14.49m ..... Ashia Hansen ..... 1997

    High jump:
    02.39m ..... 02.38m ..... 02.29m ..... Zhu Jianhua ..... 1983
    02.38m ..... 02.38m ..... 02.38m ..... Gennadiy Avdeyenko ..... 1987
    02.38m ..... 02.38m ..... 02.37m ..... Artur Partyka ..... 1996

    02.09m ..... 02.07m ..... 02.09m ..... Stefka Kostadinova ..... 1987

    Pole vault:
    06.14m ..... 06.13m ..... 00.00m ..... Sergey Bubka ..... 1992
    05.05m ..... 04.93m ..... 05.01m ..... Yelena Isinbaeva ..... 2005

    Shot put:
    22.75m ..... 21.97m ..... 21.98m ..... Werner Günthör ..... 1993
    21.42m ..... 21.40m ..... 21.42m ..... Svetlana Krachevskaya ..... 1980

    Discus:
    73.88m ..... 70.61m ..... 70.17m ..... Virgilijus Alekna ..... 2005
    70.50m ..... 69.60m ..... 53.76m ..... Faina Melnik ..... 1980

    Hammer throw:
    84.86m ..... 83.15m ..... 82.91m ..... Koji Murofushi ..... 2004
    76.07m ..... 76.07m ..... 75.20m .... Mihaela Melinte ..... 1999

    Javelin:
    98.48m ..... 95.66m ..... 85.98m ..... Jan Zelezný ..... 1993
    71.70m ..... 69.82m ..... 69.53m ..... Osleidys Menendez ..... 2001


    Note: The women run 100m hurdles, naturally. Bubka 00.00m was a no-height in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona; his PB was set at altitude. The 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games were boycotted, which change the dynamics of the post-champs bests during those years. The w-steeple is a new event with not much historical depth. Isinbaeva has "only" set one WR in 15 post-champs meets (wink), meaning she has packed in a great punch prior to taking championship gold AND delivered theatrics before the events as well.
    Sources: pela2 lists and Tilastopaja.
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