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World records and best performances, men’s road running

5 km 13:00 Sammy Kipketer (KEN) 26 Mar 2000 Carlsbad
13:00 Sammy Kipketer (KEN) 1 Apr 2001 Carlsbad
4 miles 17:10 Eliud Kipchoge (KEN) 9 Oct 2005 Groningen
8 km 21:51+ Deriba Merga (ETH) 18 Feb 2011 Ras al-Khaimah
22:03 Peter Githuka (KEN) 20 Jul 1996 Kingsport
5 miles 22:05+ Phillimon Hanneck (ZIM) 20 Mar 1993 New Orleans
22:08 Ismael Kirui (KEN) 2 May 1993 Dublin
10 km 26:44 Leonard Patrick Komon (KEN) 26 Sep 2010 Utrecht
12 km 33:31 Joseph Kimani (KEN) 10 May 1997 Evansville
15 km 41:13 Leonard Patrick Komon (KEN) 21 Nov 2011 Nijmegen
10 miles 44:24 Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) 4 Sep 2005 Tilburg
20 km 55:21+ Zersenay Tadese (ERI) 21 Mar 2010 Lisbon
56:01 Zersenay Tadese (ERI) 8 Oct 2006 Debrecen
Half Marathon 58:23 Zersenay Tadese (ERI) 21 Mar 2010 Lisbon
25 km 1:11:37 Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) 12 Mar 2006 Alphen aan den Rijn
30 km 1:27:37+ Peter Kirui (KEN) 25 Sep 2011 Berlin
1:27:44 Samuel Kosgei (KEN) 20 Sep 2009 Berlin
20 miles 1:35:22+ Steve Jones (GBR) 20 Oct 1985 Chicago
Marathon 2:03:38 Patrick Makau (KEN) 25 Sep 2011 Berlin
50 km 2:43:38+ Thompson Magawana (RSA) 12 Apr 1988 Claremont-Kirstenbosch
100 km 6:13:33 Takahiro Sunada (JPN) 21 Jun 1998 Lake Saroma
100 miles 11:46:37 Yiannis Kouros (GRE) 8 May 1984 New York (Queens)
12:05:43+ Andy Jones (CAN) 27 Sep 1997 Sylvania
24 hours 290.221km Yiannis Kouros (AUS) 3 May 1998 Basle
Marathon Relay 1:55:59 Ethiopia 24 Nov 2003 Chiba
(Dejene Birhanu, Hailu Mekkonen, Gebregziabher Gebremariam, Markos Geneti, Sileshi Sihine)
1:57:06 Kenya 23 Nov 2005 Chiba
(Josephat Ndambiri, Martin Mathathi, Daniel Mwangi, Mekubo Mogusu, Onesmus Nyerere, John Kariuki)