

"IAAF World Records Progression" (pdf) (2015 ed.). ^ a b Hymans, Richard Matrahazi, Imre.^ original source has the correct year-1966, not 1968.Monte Carlo: IAAF Media & Public Relations Department. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y "12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook.^ a b "IAAF World Championships: IAAF Statistics Handbook.Men's 100 metres world record progression.Women's 200 metres world record progression.The record progressions for automatic times at low altitude (after Carr's 20.36 in 1964) were 20.30 seconds by Valeriy Borzov at Helsinki in 1971, then Larry Black 20.28, 1972 at Munich, 20.00 (Borzov, 1972 also at Munich), 19.96 (Mennea, 1980), 19.75 ( Carl Lewis, 1983), 19.75 ( Joe DeLoach, 1988) and 19.73 ( Michael Marsh, 1992), before Michael Johnson ran 19.66 in 1996. Tommie Smith's 1968 Olympic gold medal victory was the fastest recorded fully electronic 200 metre sprint up to that time. Starting on January 1, 1977, the IAAF required fully automatic timing to the hundredth of a second for these events.

: 45 Records post-1977 īeginning in 1975, the IAAF accepted separate automatically electronically timed records for events up to 400 metres.

12 seconds for the 200 metre equivalent, he is estimated to have run 20.14 for that distance. Tommie Smith ran 20.26 for 220 yards at Provo in 1967. The electronic time was 20.36 seconds, which was the fastest auto time to that date. Henry Carr's winning time at the 1964 Olympics (17 October) was a hand timed 20.3 seconds. The run was not ratified as a world record because Carlos was wearing shoes with 'brush' spikes which did not have sanction as official footwear. John Carlos ran 19.7A seconds (19.92A auto) (1.9 ms wind), at altitude, at the 1968 US Olympic Trials in Echo Summit. The "Time" column indicates the ratified mark the "Wind" column indicates the wind assistance in metres per second, 2.0 m/s the current maximum allowable, a negative indicates the mark was set running into a wind the "Auto" column indicates a fully automatic time that was also recorded in the event when hand-timed marks were used for official records, or which was the basis for the official mark, rounded to the 10th or 100th of a second, depending on the rules then in place.
