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World Athletics Championships records: The full list of world recordsUsain Bolt set the 200m world record in 2009AFP/Getty Images

The 2019 Athletics World Championships have arrived in Doha, with the planet's finest athletes set to compete over ten days.

At the last World Championships, in London two years ago, there was just one new world record set, as Portugal's Ines Henriques smashed the men's mark in the 50km race walk.

However, this year already, US star Dalilah Muhammad has set a new world record in the 400m hurdles, while Karsten Warholm has his eyes on the men's equivalent.

Sprint sensation Noah Lyles has chosen to target the 200m, and has even spoken about having a crack at Usain Bolt's world record, while the Netherlands' Sifan Hassan broke the mile world record earlier this season and looks set to run in the 10,000m, as well as either the 1500m or 5,000m.

Scroll down for the full list of world records in events set to take place in Doha...

Men's world records

Event World record Athlete Nationality Year 100m 9.58 Usain Bolt  JAM 2009 200m 19.19 Usain Bolt  JAM 2009 400m 43.03 Wayde van Niekerk RSA 2016 800m 1:40.91 David Rudisha KEN 2012 1500m 3:26.00 Hicham El Guerrouj  MAR 1998 5000m 12:37.35 Kenenisa Bekele ETH 2004 10000m 26:17.53 Kenenisa Bekele ETH 2005 110m hurdles 12.80 Aries Merritt USA 2012 400m hurdles 46.78 Kevin Young USA 1992 3000m steeplechase 7:53.63 Saif Saaeed Shahen QAT 2004 Long jump 8.95m Mike Powell USA 1991 Triple jump 18.29m Jonathan Edwards GBR  1995 High Jump 2.45m Javier Sotomayor CUB 1993 Pole vault 6.16m Renaud Lavillenie FRA 2014 Javelin 98.48m Jan Zelezny CZE 1996 Discus 74.08m Jurgen Schult GDR 1986 Hammer 86.74m Yuriy Sedykh URS 1986 Shot put 23.12m Randy Barnes USA 1990 Decathlon 9126 pts Kevin Mayer FRA 2018 Marathon 2:01:39 Eliud Kipchoge KEN 2018 20km race walk 1:16:36 Yusuke Suzuki JAP 2015 50km race walk 3:23:33 Yohann Diniz FRA 2014 4x100m relay 36.84 Nesta Carter
Michael Frater
Yohan Blake
Usain Bolt JAM 2012 4x400m relay  2:54.29 Andrew Valmon
Quincy Watts
Butch Reynolds
Michael Johnson USA 1993

Women's world records

AFP/Getty ImagesEvent World record Athlete Nationality Year 100m 10.49 Florence Griffith Joyner  USA 1988 200m 21.34 Florence Griffith Joyner USA 1988 400m 47.60 Marita Koch GDR 1985 800m 1:53.28 Jarmila Kratochvilova TCH 1983 1500m 3:50.07 Genzebe Dibaba ETH 2015 5000m 14:11.15 Tirunesh Dibaba ETH 2008 10000m 29:17.45 Almaz Ayana ETH 2016 100m hurdles 12.20 Kendra Harrison USA 2016 400m hurdles 52.20 Dalilah Muhammad USA 2019 3000m steeplechase 8:44.32 Beatrice Chepkoech KEN 2018 Long jump 7.52m Galina Chistyakova URS 1988 Triple jump 15.50m Inessa Kravets UKR 1995 High Jump 2.09m Stefka Kostadinova BUL 1987 Pole vault 5.06m Yelena Isinbayeva RUS 2009 Javelin 72.28m Barbora Spotakova CZE 2008 Discus 76.80m Gabriele Reinsch GDR 1988 Hammer 82.98m Anita Wlodarczyk POL 2016 Shot put 22.63m Natalya Lisovskaya URS 1987 Heptathlon 7291 pts Jackie Joyner-Kersee USA 1988 Marathon 2:15:25 Paula Radcliffe GBR 2003 20km race walk 1:24:38 Liu Hong CHN 2015 50km race walk 3:23:33 Liu Hong CHN 2019 4x100m relay 40.82 Tianna Madison
Allyson Felix
Bianca Knight
Carmelita Jeter USA 2012 4x400m relay  3:15.17 Tatyana Ledovskaya
Olga Nazarova
Mariya Pinigina
Olga Bryzgina URS 1998

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