50 metres hurdles
50 metres hurdles is a distance in hurdling, usually only run in indoor competitions. Because very few contests are held over the distance, most of the fastest times recorded for the event were set during specially measured and timed races over longer distances, typically the 55 metres hurdles or 60 metres hurdles.
Top ten all-time
Note: Indoor results only.
- + = Timed recorded by athlete en route to a longer distance
Men
| Rank | Time | Athlete | Nation | Date | Place |
|---|
| 1 | 6.25 | Mark McKoy |  Canada | 5 March 1986 | Kobe, Japan |
| 2 | 6.35 | Greg Foster |  United States | 27 February 1985 | Rosemont, Illinois, United States |
| 3= | 6.36 | Renaldo Nehemiah | United States | 3 February 1979 | Edmonton, Canada |
| 3= | 6.36+ | Duane Ross | United States | 21 February 1999 | Liévin, France |
| 3= | 6.36+ | Anier García |  Cuba | 13 February 2000 | Liévin, France |
| 3= | 6.36+ | Ladji Doucouré |  France | 26 February 2005 | Liévin, France |
| 7 | 6.37+ | Tony Dees | United States | 13 February 2000 | Liévin, France |
| 8 | 6.39+ | Dayron Robles | Cuba | 21 February 2008 | Stockholm, Sweden |
| 9= | 6.40 | Colin Jackson |  United Kingdom | 5 February 1999 | Budapest, Hungary |
| 9= | 6.40+ | Allen Johnson | United States | 26 February 2005 | Liévin, France |
| 9= | 6.40+ | Shamar Sands |  Bahamas | 10 February 2009 | Liévin, France |
Women
| Rank | Time | Athlete | Nation | Date | Place |
|---|
| 1 | 6.58 | Cornelia Oschkenat |  East Germany | 20 February 1988 | Berlin, Germany |
| 2= | 6.65 | Gloria Siebert | East Germany | 20 February 1988 | Berlin, Germany |
| 2= | 6.65 | Ludmila Engquist |  Sweden | 7 January 1993 | Grenoble, France |
| 4= | 6.67 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee | United States | 10 February 1995 | Reno, Nevada, United States |
| 4= | 6.67+ | Michelle Freeman |  Jamaica | 13 February 2000 | Liévin, France |
| 4= | 6.67+ | Susanna Kallur | Sweden | 21 February 2008 | Stockholm, Sweden |
| 7= | 6.70 | Olga Shishigina |  Kazakhstan | 5 February 1999 | Budapest, Hungary |
| 7= | 6.70 | Brigita Bukovec |  Slovenia | 5 February 1999 | Budapest, Hungary |
| 9= | 6.73 | Julie Baumann |  Switzerland | 7 January 1993 | Grenoble, France |
| 9= | 6.73 | Yuliya Graudyn |  Russia | 27 January 1995 | Moscow, Russia |
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