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Which shoe brand has the most track and field records?
Below you’ll find which shoe brands the athletes wore while performing their world record marks.
Nike is the shoe brand with the most records with 21. 10 on the men’s side and 11 on the women’s.
Next is adidas with 14 in total (although the video/image of the discuss throw wasn’t clear enough to know for sure). 5 on the men’s side and 9 on the women’s.
In 3rd place is Puma with 6 records. But all their records are on the men’s side.
Mizuno has 2 world records. Would you know which ones? 1 on the men’s side and one on the women’s,
Then, Li Ning, New Balance, and Reebok have one record each.
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Year | Men | Brand | Event | Brand | Women | Year |
2009 | Usain BOLT | Puma | 100m | Adidas | Florence GRIFFITH-JOYNER | 1988 |
2009 | Usain BOLT | Puma | 200m | Mizuno | Florence GRIFFITH-JOYNER | 1988 |
2016 | Wayde VAN NIEKERK | Adidas | 400m | Adidas | Marita KOCH | 1985 |
2012 | Aries MERRITT | Reebok | 110h/100h | Adidas | Tobi AMUSAN | 2022 |
2021 | Karsten WARHOLM | Puma | 400h | New Balance | Sydney MCLAUGHLIN | 2022 |
2012 | David RUDISHA | Nike | 800m | Adidas | Jarmila KRATOCHVÍLOVÁ | 1983 |
1998 | Hicham EL GUERROUJ | Nike | 1,500m | Nike | Genzebe DIBABA | 2015 |
2004 | Saif Saaeed SHAHEEN | Puma | 3,000m steeplechase | Nike | Beatrice CHEPKOECH | 2018 |
2020 | Joshua CHEPTEGEI | Nike | 5,000m | Nike | Letesenbet GIDEY | 2020 |
2020 | Joshua CHEPTEGEI | Nike | 10,000m | Nike | Letesenbet GIDEY | 2021 |
1991 | Mike POWELL | Nike | Long jump | Adidas | Galina CHISTYAKOVA | 1988 |
1995 | Jonathan EDWARDS | Puma | Triple jump | Nike | Yulimar ROJAS | 2022 |
1993 | Javier SOTOMAYOR | Adidas | High jump | Adidas | Stefka KOSTADINOVA | 1987 |
2022 | Armand DUPLANTIS | Puma | Pole vault | Li Ning | Yelena ISINBAYEVA | 2009 |
1986 | Jürgen SCHULT | Adidas? | Discuss throw | Adidas? | Gabriele REINSCH | 1988 |
1996 | Jan ŽELEZNÝ | Mizuno | Javelin throw | Nike | Anita WŁODARCZYK | 2008 |
1986 | Yuriy SEDYKH | Adidas | Hammer throw | Nike | Barbora ŠPOTÁKOVÁ | 2016 |
2021 | Ryan CROUSER | Nike | Shop put | Adidas | Natalya LISOVSKAYA | 1987 |
2016 | Kevin Mayer | Nike | Decathlon /
Heptathlon |
Adidas | Jackie JOYNER-KERSEE | 1988 |
2021 | Berihu AREGAWI | Nike | 5k | Nike | Ejgayehu TAYE | 2021 |
2020 | Rhonex KIPRUTO | Adidas | 10k | Nike | Yalemzerf YEHUALAW | 2022 |
2021 | Jacob KIPLIMO | Nike | Half marathon | Nike | Letesenbet GIDEY | 2021 |
2022 | Eliud KIPCHOGE | Nike | Marathon | Nike | Brigid KOSGEI | 2019 |
Last updated on Dec 4th, 2022
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