Absolute Records Broken In 2020

Categories: W = World; A or Am = American; C = Collegiate (NCAA Div. I only); JC = Junior College; J = Junior (U20); Y = Youth (U18); HS = High School.

Codings: + = event not officially recognized by governing body; ‘ = student not eligible to represent the U.S. internationally;  i = mark made indoors; l-a = low-altitude; w-o = women only race; ¶ = conditions for ratification not suitable. Note: unlike T&FN and WA, USATF no longer recognizes the concept of absolute records (no differentiation between marks set indoors or out).

switch to indoor records broken in 2020

MEN TRACK
200 20.33 AY Erriyon Knighton (Florida HS) Satellite Beach, Florida August 05
5000 13:16.95i AmC Tyler Day (Northern Arizona) Boston, Massachusetts January 24
12:35.36 W Joshua Cheptegei (Uganda) Fontvieille, Monaco August 14
300 Hurdles 33.78 W+ Karsten Warholm (Norway) Oslo, Norway June 11
4 x 1500 14:34.97 A Nike Bowerman TC Portland, Oregon July 31
(Evan Jager 3:39, Grant Fisher 3:37, Sean McGorty 3:38, Lopez Lomong 3:39)
10,000 26:11.00 W Joshua Cheptegei (Uganda) Valencia, Spain October 07
20,000 56:20.1 W+ Bashir Abdi (Belgium) Brussels, Belgium September 04
Hour 21,330m | 13M, 446y W Mo Farah (Great Britain) Brussels, Belgium September 04
MEN FIELD
Pole Vault 6.17 | 20-2¾i W Mondo Duplantis (Sweden) Toruń, Poland February 08
6.18 | 20-3¼i W Mondo Duplantis (Sweden) Glasgow, Scotland February 15
Hammer 79.73 | 261-7 HS Trey Knight (Ridgefield, Washington) Oregon City, Oregon June 27
MEN ROAD
5K 13:18 W Rhonex Kipruto (Kenya) Valencia, Spain January 12
12:51 W Joshua Cheptegei (Uganda) Monaco February 16
10K 26:24 W Rhonex Kipruto (Kenya) Valencia, Spain January 12
10M 45:54 A Galen Rupp (Nike) Dorena, Oregon October 30
Half-Marathon 57:32 W Kibiwott Kandie (Kenya) Valencia, Spain December 06
WOMEN TRACK
5000 14:23.92 A Shelby Houlihan (Nike Bowerman TC) Portland, Oregon July 10
14:06.62 W Letesenbet Gidey (Ethiopia) Valencia, Spain October 07
15:34.47 AJ, AY, HS Jenna Hutchins (Science Hill, Johnson City, Tennessee) Columbia, South Carolina December 11
1Hour 18,930m | 11M, 1341y W Sifan Hassan (Netherlands) Brussels, Belgium September 04
17,930m | 11M,248y A Molly Huddle (Saucony) Attleboro, Massachusetts November 01
4 x 1500 16:27.02 W, A Nike Bowerman TC Portland, Oregon July 31
(Colleen Quigley 4:08, Elise Cranny 4:09, Karissa Schweizer 4:06, Shelby Houlihan 4:04)
3000 Walk 13:00.56i AJ, HS Taylor Ewert (Beavercreek, Ohio) Lynchburg, Virginia January 17
WOMEN FIELD
Pole Vault 4.48 | 14-8¼ AJ Leah Pasqualetti (Orchard Park, New York) Sun City, California June 26
Discus 70.15 | 230-2 A Valarie Allman (Oiselle/New York AC) Rathdrum, Idaho August 01
Javelin 63.96 | 209-10 WJ Elína Tzénggo (Greece) Ioánnina, Greece August 01
Y Javelin 68.76 | 225-7 WY Adriana Vilagoš (Serbia) Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia March 07
WOMEN ROAD
10M (w-o) 51:23 A Keira D’Amato (unattached) Washington, DC November 24
Half-Marathon 64:31 W Yeshaneh Ababel (Ethiopia) Ra’s al Khaymah, United Arab Emirates February 21
Half-Marathon  (w-o) 65:34 W Peres Jepchirchir (Kenya) Prague, Czech Republic September 05
65:16 W Peres Jepchirchir (Kenya) Gdynia, Poland October 17
Marathon 2:31:49 AJ Tierney Wolfgram (Nevada) Sacramento, California November 07

as of December 14, 2020