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.

All-time top 25

Note: Indoor results only.

• + = Timed recorded by athlete en route to a longer distance
• A = affected by altitude

Men

• Correct as of February 2017.^[1]

Rank	Time	Athlete	Nation	Date	Place	Ref
1	6.25	Mark McKoy	Canada	5 March 1986	Kobe
2	6.35	Greg Foster	United States	27 January 1985	Rosemont
				31 January 1987	Ottawa
3	6.36	Renaldo Nehemiah	United States	3 February 1979	Edmonton
	6.36+	Duane Ross	United States	21 February 1999	Liévin
	6.36+	Anier García	Cuba	13 February 2000	Liévin
	6.36+	Ladji Doucouré	France	26 February 2005	Liévin
7	6.37+	Tony Dees	United States	13 February 2000	Liévin
8	6.39+	Dayron Robles	Cuba	21 February 2008	Stockholm
9	6.40	Colin Jackson	United Kingdom	5 February 1999	Budapest
	6.40+	Allen Johnson	United States	26 February 2005	Liévin
	6.40+	Shamar Sands	Bahamas	10 February 2009	Liévin
12	6.41	Igor Kovác	Czech Republic
	6.41 A	Mark Crear	United States
14	6.42+	Yoel Hernández	Cuba
15	6.43	Reggie Torian	United States
16	6.44+	Xiang Liu	China
		Evgeniy Borisov	Russia
18	6.45	Thomas Munkelt	East Germany
		Tonie Campbell	United States
		Terrence Trammell	United States
21	6.46	Frank Siebeck	East Germany
		Sam Turner	United States
		Robert Kronberg	Sweden
	6.46+	Courtney Hawkins	United States
		Stanislavs Olijars	Latvia

Notes

Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 6.39:

• Greg Foster also ran 6.37 (1986).
• Renaldo Nehemiah also ran 6.38 (1979).
• Mark McKoy also ran 6.38 (1986), 6.39 (1995).
• Tony Dees also ran 6.38 (1999).
• Anier García also ran 6.39 (2000).

Women

• Correct as of February 2017.^[2]

Rank	Time	Athlete	Nation	Date	Place	Ref
1	6.58	Cornelia Oschkenat	East Germany	20 February 1988	Berlin
2	6.65	Gloria Siebert	East Germany	20 February 1988	Berlin
	6.65	Ludmila Engquist	Sweden	7 January 1993	Grenoble
4	6.67 A	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States	10 February 1995	Reno
	6.67+	Michelle Freeman	Jamaica	13 February 2000	Liévin
	6.67+	Susanna Kallur	Sweden	21 February 2008	Stockholm
7	6.70	Olga Shishigina	Kazakhstan	5 February 1999	Budapest
	6.70	Brigita Bukovec	Slovenia	5 February 1999	Budapest
9	6.73	Julie Baumann	Switzerland	7 January 1993	Grenoble
	6.73	Yuliya Graudyn	Russia	27 January 1995	Moscow
11	6.74	Anneliese Ehrhardt	East Germany
		Zofia Bielczyk	Poland
13	6.75	Kristin Patzwahl	East Germany
	6.75+	Josephine Onyia	Spain
15	6.76	Danuta Perka	Poland
	6.76+	Patricia Girard	France
		Glory Alozie	Nigeria
18	6.77	Grazyna Rabsztyn	Poland
		Yordanka Donkova	Bulgaria
20	6.78+	Keturah Anderson	Canada
	6.78	Lolo Jones	United States
22	6.80	Maria Kemenchezhi-Merchuk	Soviet Union
	6.80+	Linda Ferga-Khodadin	France
		Perdita Felicien	Canada
		Derval O'Rourke	Ireland
		Lacena Golding-Clarke	Jamaica

Notes

Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 6.73:

• Cornelia Oschkenat also ran 6.60 (1988), 6.68 (1988), 6.69 (1989), 6.71 (1986, 1987), 6.73 (1986, 1987).
• Gloria Siebert also ran 6.67 (1988), 6.69 (1988), 6.72 (1990).
• Michelle Freeman also ran 6.69+ (2000), 6.72+ (2001).
• Jackie Joyner-Kersee also ran 6.73 A (1996).

References

External links

• IAAF list of 50-metres-hurdles records in XML