| Athletics 50 metres | |
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| World records | |
| Men | |
| Women | |
50 metres, or50-meter dash, is asprint event intrack and field, featured as an alternative to the60 metres running event. It is a relatively uncommon non-championship event for indoor track and field, normally dominated by the best outdoor100 metres runners. At outdoorathletics competitions it is used in theSpecial Olympics but otherwise a rare distance. The World Masters Rankings has recorded the event since the 2010s.[1] The imperial equivalent distance to 50 metres is 54.68 yards.
Records and personal bests in the 50 metres are frequently achieved in February and March as these dates coincide with the indoor athletics season.
Indoor results only
+ =en route to a longer distance
A = affected by altitude
Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 5.63:
+ =en route to 100m mark.N.B. The Seville marks listed are excluding the athlete's reaction times. Bolt's & Su's times are inclusive.
| Rank | Time | Wind (m/s) | Athlete | Nation | Date | Place | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5.40+ (calculated; add 0.127, or 0.13) | +0.2 | Bruny Surin | 22 August 1999 | Seville | [5] | |
| 2 | 5.42+ (calculated; add 0.132, or 0.14) | Maurice Greene | |||||
| 3 | 5.43+ (calculated; add 0.140) | Dwain Chambers | |||||
| 4 | 5.45+ | +0.9 | Su Bingtian | 1 August 2021 | Tokyo | [6] | |
| 5 | 5.46+ (calculated; add 0.136, or 0.14) | +0.2 | Tim Harden | 22 August 1999 | Seville | [7] | |
| 6 | 5.47+ (calculated) | +0.9 | Usain Bolt | 16 August 2009 | Berlin | [8] |
Note:Angella Issajenko of Canada ran a world record 6.06 in Ottawa on 13 January 1987, this performance was rescinded after Issajenko's admittance of long term drug use at theDubin Inquiry in 1989.
Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 6.11:
+ =en route to 100m mark
| Time | Wind (m/s) | Athlete | Nation | Date | Place | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.93+ (calculated) | −0.1 | Marion Jones | United States | 22 August 1999 | Seville |