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Example(s)
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| Set in heat, lost in finals
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1920 OG M 4×100m; Simone Schaller 1932 OG W 80mH; Ross Nichols, 1928 USOT M 110mH; Frank Cuhel 1928 USOT M 400mH; Stanisława Walasiewicz 1932 OG W 100m; 1952 OG W 4×100m (twice); ?Willie Williams Berlin 1956 M 100m?; Ira Murchison 1956 USOT M 100m; Stone Johnson 1960 USOT 200m M; Irena Kirszenstein 1965 EC W 100m; Barbara Ferrell and Irena Szewińska 1968 OG W 100m; 1968 OG M 4×100m (Jamaica in heats and semifinals); 1968 OG W 4×100m (twice)
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| Set in qualifying, lost in finals
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1968 Olympic M TJ
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| Set without wind, best mark was wind-assisted
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| Lost photo-finish, rounded time same as winner's
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Earl Thomson 1920 OG M 110mH; Evelyne Hall 1932 OG W 80mH; Rowena Harrison Tuskegee 1939 W 100m; [Thane Baker 1956 USOT M 100m – not submitted or not ratified]; Carl Kaufmann 1960 Rome M 400m; 1968 Night of Speed; Teresa Sukniewicz Warsaw 1969 W 100mH; Colette Besson 1969 EC W 400m; 1969 EC W 4×400m; 1972 USOT M 100m
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| Set in one event of multi-event, lost overall
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1924 Olympic pentathlon M
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| Set in multi-event, beaten by later finisher who re-broke record
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1980 Olympic pentathlon W x 2
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| Set in field event, re-broken by later competitor
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Bill Miller 1932 USOT M PV; 1968 Olympic M TJ x 4; Daniela Bártová Erfurt 31.01.1996 W PVi
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| Set in HJ/PV, lost on countback
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Edwin Myers/Edward Knourek 30.03.1923 Evanston M PVi; Bill Sefton/Earle Meadows Los Angeles 29 May 1937 M PV; Ulrike Meyfarth/Tamara Bykova 21 August 1983 London W HJ; Sun Caiyun/Zhang Chunzhen Guangzhou 24 March 1991 W PV; Sun Caiyun/Zhong Guiqing Taiyuan 18 May 1995 W PV; Stacy Dragila/Daniela Bártová Sindelfingen 8.03.1998 W PVi
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| Knocked hurdle, which did not disqualify from race but did invalidate as record.
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1932 Olympic 400mH M
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| Winner had illegal footwear
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1968 United States Olympic Trials (track and field) 400m (Lee Evans 1st "illegal 'Brush spike' shoes")[1][2]
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| Split time record, lost full-distance race
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| Winning team multi-national
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Sun Devil Relay Classic 1978 Tobias Striders; 2018 NCAA indoor M 4x400m
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| Multi-event tables changed after event
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NOT 1984 Olympic decathlon
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