Premium

This is an archive article published on August 21, 2016

World and Olympic Records broken at Rio Olympics

Joseph Schooling set the mark in the 100m butterfly event to eclipse the legendary Michael Phelps at Rio Olympics.

Rio Olympics 2016, Rio Olympics, Rio Olympics World Records, Olympic records, World Records broken, Olympic records broken, Athletics records, Swimming records, Olympics news, sports, sports news

Joseph Schooling created the new Olympic Record in 100m butterfly to beat Michael Phelps and his record by 0.19 seconds. (Source: Reuters)

Rio Olympics 2016 are on their final day and what an incredible 16 days it has been after much noise and questions over the Brazilian city’s capabilities of holding the event without a glitch, the Zika virus concerns (and the pull outs because of that), infrastructural issues, athletes village not being ready and on the outside, the doping issues with Russian contingent being banned. And we’ve reached a stage where there have been no real issues from the organisers side or any events being hurt (even if we discount the colour of the swimming pool changing to green).

As with all Games, there were many records set and many records broken – both World records and Olympic records. The World record was broken even before the Opening Ceremony began with Woojin Kim of South Korea shooting a 700 in individual archery ranking round to eclipse the previous record of 699.

From India, only one record was broken with Lalita Babar setting the new national record in the 3000m Steeplechase Heats with a time of 9 minutes 19.76 seconds to become the first athlete since PT Usha in 1982 to reach a track and field Final.

Story continues below this ad

A quick look at all the World and Olympic records broken at Rio Olympics 2016 with events on day 16 yet to take place.

WORLD RECORDS BROKEN
ARCHERY
Men
Individual 72 Arrows 70-meter Round — Woojin Kim, South Korea, 700, Aug. 5.

ATHLETICS
Men
400m — Wayde van Niekerk, South Africa, 43.03 seconds, Aug. 14 (Previous: Michael Johnson, United States, 43.18, Aug. 26, 1999).

Shot Put — Ryan Crouser, United States, 22.52, Aug. 18 (Previous Record: Ulf TIMMERMANN, , 22.47, Sept. 23, 1988).

Story continues below this ad

Women
Hammer Throw — Anita Wlodarczyk, Poland, 82.29, Aug. 15 (Previous: Anita Wlodarczyk, Poland, 81.08, Aug. 1, 2015).

10,000 — Almaz Ayana, Ethiopia, 29:17.45, Aug. 12 (Previous: Wang Junxia, China, 29:31.78, Sept. 8, 1993).

CYCLING (TRACK)
Men

Team Pursuit — Britain (Edward Clancy, Steven Burke, Owain Doull, Bradley Wiggins), 3:50.265, Aug. 12 (Previous: Britain, 3:51.659, Aug. 3, 2012).

Women
Team Sprint — China (Gong Jinjie, Zhong Tianshi), 31.928, Aug. 12 (Previous: China, 32.034, Feb. 18, 2015).

Team Pursuit — Britain (Katie Archibald, Laura Trott, Elinor Barker, Joanna Rowsell-Shand), 4:10.236, Aug. 13 (Previous: Australia, 4:13.683, Feb. 19, 2015).

Story continues below this ad

SWIMMING
Men
100 Breaststroke — Adam Peaty, Britain, 57.13, Aug. 7 (Previous: Adam Peaty, Britain, 57.92, April 17, 2015).

100 Backstroke — Ryan Murphy, United States, 51.85, Aug. 13 (Previous: Aaron Peirsol, United States, 51.94, July 8, 2009).

Women

100 Butterfly — Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden, 55.48, Aug. 7 (Previous: Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden, 55.64, Aug. 3, 2015).

400 Freestyle — Katie Ledecky, United States, 3:56.46, Aug. 7 (Previous: Katie Ledecky, United States, 3:58.37, Aug. 23, 2014).

Story continues below this ad

800 Freestyle — Katie Ledecky, United States, 8:04.79, Aug. 12 (Previous: Katie Ledecky, United States, 8:06.68, Jan. 17, 2016).

400 Individual Medley — Katinka Hosszu, Hungary, 4:26.36, Aug. 6 (Previous: Ye Shiwen, China, 4:28.43, July 28, 2012).

4×100 Freestyle Relay — Australia (Emma McKeon, Brittany Elmslie, Bronte Campbell, Cate Campbell), 3:30.65, Aug. 6 (Previous: Australia, 3:30.98, July 24, 2014).

WEIGHTLIFTING
Men

56kg Total — Long Qingquan, China, 307, Aug. 7 (Previous: Halil Mutlu, Turkey, 305, Sept. 16, 2000).

Story continues below this ad

77kg Snatch — Lyu Xiaojun, China, 177, Aug. 10 (Previous: Lyu Xiaojun, China, 176, Oct. 24, 2013).

77kg Clean & Jerk — Nijat Rahimov, Kazakhstan, 214, Aug. 10 (Previous: Oleg Perepechenov, Russia, 210, April 27, 2001).

85kg Total — Kianoush Rostami, Iran, 396, Aug. 12 (Previous: Kianoush Rostami, Iran, 395, May 31, 2016).

+105kg Snatch — Behdad Salimikordasiabi, Iran, 216, Aug. 16 (Previous: Behdad Salimikordasiabi, Iran, 214, Nov. 13, 2011).

Story continues below this ad

+105kg Total — Lasha Talakhadze, Georgia, 473, Aug. 16 (Previous: Hossein Reza Zadeh, Iran, 472, Sept. 26, 2000).
Women=

63kg Total — Deng Wei, China, 262, Aug. 9 (Previous: Lin Tzu-Chi, Taiwan, 261, Sept. 23, 2014).

63kg Clean & Jerk — Deng Wei, China, 147, Aug. 9 (Previous: Deng Wei, China, 146, Nov. 25, 2015).

OLYMPIC RECORDS BROKEN
ATHLETICS
Men

3000 Steeplechase — Conseslus Kipruto, Kenya, 8:03.28, Aug. 17 (Previous: Julius Kariuki, Kenya, 8:05.51, Sept. 30, 1988).

Story continues below this ad

Shot Put — Ryan Crouser, United States, 22.52, Aug. 18 (Previous: Ulf Timmermann, Germany, 22.47, Sept. 23, 1988).

Pole Vault — Thiago Braz da Silva, Brazil, 6.03, Aug. 15 (Previous: Renaud Lavillenie, France, 5.97, Aug. 10, 2012).
Women=

5000 — Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot, Kenya, 14:26.17, Aug. 19 (Previous: Gabriela Szabo, Romania, 14:40.79, Sept. 25, 2000).

CYCLING (TRACK)
Men

Sprint — Jason Kenny, Britain, 9.551, Aug. 12 (Previous: Jason Kenny, Britain, 9.713, Aug. 4, 2012).

Story continues below this ad

Sprint — Jason Kenny, Britain, 9.551, Aug. 12 (Previous: Jason Kenny, Britain, 9.713, Aug. 4, 2012).

Omnium — Lasse Norman Hansen, Denmark, 4:14.982, Aug. 14 (Previous: Bradley Wiggins, Britain, 4:15.031, Aug. 15, 2008).

Team Sprint — Britain (Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny, Callum Skinner), 42.440, Aug. 11 (Previous: Britain, 42.600, Aug. 2, 2012).

Women

Sprint — Rebecca James, Britain, 10.721, Aug. 14 (Previous: Victoria Pendleton, Britain, 10.724, Aug. 5, 2012).

MODERN PENTATHLON
Men

Overall Points — Alexander Lesun, Russia, 1479, Aug. 20.

Combined Running/Shooting Record — Woongtae Jun, South Korea, 11:02.50, Aug. 20.

Women

Overall Points — Chloe Esposito, Australia, 1372, Aug. 19.

Combined Running/Shooting Record — Laura Asadauskaite, Lithuania, 12:01.01, Aug. 19.

SHOOTING
Men

10-meter Air Rifle — Niccolo Campriani, Italy, 630.2, Aug. 8.

50-meter Rifle Prone — Sergey Kamenskiy, Russia, 629.0, Aug. 12.

50-meter Rifle 3 Positions — Sergey Kamenskiy, Russia, 1184, Aug. 14.

Double Trap — James Willett, Australia, 140, Aug. 10.

Skeet — Marcus Svensson, Sweden, 123, Aug. 13.

Women

10-meter Air Rifle — Du Li, China, 420.7, Aug. 6.

50-meter Rifle 3 Positions — Petra Zublasing, Italy, 589, Aug. 11.

25-meter Pistol — Zhang Jingjing, China, 592, Aug. 9 (Previous: Kim Jangmi, South Korea, 591, Aug. 1, 2012).

Skeet — Wei Meng, China, 73, Aug. 12.

SWIMMING
Men

100 Butterfly — Joseph Schooling, Singapore, 50.39, Aug. 12 (Previous: Michael Phelps, United States, 50.58, Aug. 16, 2008).

200 Breaststroke — Ippei Watanabe, Japan, 2:07.22, Aug. 9 (Previous: Daniel Gyurta, Hungary, 2:07.28, Aug. 1, 2012).

4×100 Medley Relay — United States (Ryan Murphy, Cody Miller, Michael Phelps, Nathan Adrian), 3:27.95, Aug. 13 (Previous: United States, 3:29.34, Aug. 17, 2008).

Women
100 Freestyle — Simone Manuel, United States, 52.70, Aug. 11 (Previous: Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Netherlands, 53.00, Aug. 2, 2012).

100 Breaststroke — Lillia King, United States, 1:04.93, Aug. 8 (Previous: Leisel Jones, Australia, 1:05.17, Aug. 12, 2008).

200 Individual Medley — Katinka Hosszu, Hungary, 2:06.58, Aug. 9 (Previous: Ye Shiwen, China, 2:07.57, July 31, 2012).

WEIGHTLIFTING
Men

56kg Clean & Jerk — Long Qingquan, China, 170, Aug. 7 (Previous: Om Yun Chol, North Korea, 168, July 29, 2012).

85kg Clean & Jerk — Tao Tian, China, 217, Aug. 12 (Previous: Pyrros Dimas, Greece, 215, Sept. 22, 2000).

105kg Clean & Jerk — Ruslan Nurudinov, Uzbekistan, 237, Aug. 15 (Previous: Andrei Aramnau, Belarus, 236, Aug. 18, 2008).

Women

53kg Snatch — Li Yajun, China, 101, Aug. 7 (Previous: Yang Xia, China, 100, Sept. 18, 2000).

58kg Snatch — Sukanya Srisurat, Thailand, 110, Aug. 8 (Previous: Li Xueying, China, 108, July 30, 2012)

(With inputs from AP)