compiled by Jim Rorick, as of May 09, 2018
| 100 | 10.00 | Peimeng Zhang (China) | WC 13 |
| Femi Ogunode (Qatar) | WC 15 | ||
| 9.94w | Charles Silmon (US) | USATF 15 | |
| 200 | 20.13 | Justin Gatlin (US) | OG 16 |
| 400 | 44.51 | Jerome Davis (US) | WC 99 |
| 800 | 1:44.70 | Adam Kszczot (Poland) | OG 16 |
| 1500 | 3:34.84 | Abdelkader Chékhémani (France) | OG 96 |
| St | 8:17.75 | Luís Miguel Martín (Spain) | WC 99 |
| 5000 | 13:22.87 | Mohammed Mourhit (Belgium) | WC 05 |
| 10000 | 28:05.61 | Mauricio Díaz (Chile) | OG 00 |
| 110H | 13.27 | Devon Allen (US) | WC 17 |
| 400H | 48.23 | Omar Cisneros (Cuba) | OG 12 |
| 4×1 | 38.26 | Germany | OG 16 |
| 4×4 | 2:59.95 | Botswana | WC 15 |
| Field Events | |||
| HJ | 2.29 | 7-6 | JaCorian Duffield (US) | WC 15 |
| Majed El Dein Ghazal (Syria) | WC 15 | ||
| Andrii Protsenko (Ukraine) | WC 15 | ||
| Fernando Ferreira (Brazil) | WC 17 | ||
| Protsenko | WC 17 | ||
| Ricky Robertson (US) | WC 17 | ||
| Talles Frederico Silva (Brazil) | WC 17 | ||
| Ginmarco Tamberi (Italy) | WC 17 | ||
| PV | 5.65 | 18-6½ | 4 athletes | WC 93 |
| Rens Blom (Holland) | OG 00 | ||
| Stepan Janácek (Czech Republic) | OG 00 | ||
| Romain Mesnil (France) | OG 04 | ||
| Matti Mononen (Finland) | OG 04 | ||
| Spas Bukhalov (Bulgaria) | WC 07 | ||
| Feiliang Liu (China) | WC 07 | ||
| 8 athletes | WC 15 | ||
| LJ | 8.05 | 26-5 | Petar Dachev (Bulgaria) | OG 04 |
| TJ | 17.09 | 56-1 | Alexis Copello (Cuba) | OG 08 |
| SP | 20.54 | 67-4¾ | Jakub Szyszkowski (Poland) | WC 17 |
| DT | 63.48 | 208-3 | Apostolos Parellis (Cyprus) | OG 12 |
| HT | 77.57 | 254-6 | Nicola Vizzoni (Italy) | EC 02 |
| JT | 82.46 | 270-6 | Hamish Peacock (Australia) | WC 17 |