List of meet records in athletics explained

The list provides links to all lists of meet records for athletics competitions. These are the best performances set during the course of a specific competition. Multi-sport events typically refer to these as games records while single-sport championships refer to them as championship records. For non-championship competitions, the term meet or meeting record is usually used.

Global championships

• Olympics
• IAAF World Championships
• IAAF World Indoor Championships
• IAAF World Junior Championships in Athletics
• IAAF World Relays
• Universiade

International championships records

• ALBA Games
• African Championships in Athletics
• African Junior Athletics Championships
• Asian Athletics Championships
• Asian Indoor Athletics Championships
• Asian Junior Athletics Championships
• Bolivarian Games
• CARIFTA Games
• Central American Championships
• Central American Games
• Central American Junior and Youth Championships
• Central American and Caribbean Championships
• Central American and Caribbean Games
• Commonwealth Games
• European Athletics Championships
• European Athletics Indoor Championships
• European Athletics Junior Championships
• European Games
• European Youth Olympic Festival
• Ibero-American Championships in Athletics
• Micronesian Games
• NACAC Under-23 Championships
• Oceania Area Championships in Athletics
• Pacific Games
• Pan American Games
• Pan American Junior Athletics Championships
• Pan American Race Walking Cup
• South American Championships in Athletics
• South American Games
• South American Junior Championships in Athletics
• South American Youth Championships
• South Asian Games
• Southeast Asian Games

National championships

• Czech Athletics Championships
• German Athletics Championships Indoor records
• German Athletics Championships Outdoor records
• Japan Championships in Athletics
• Lithuanian Athletics Championships
• USA Indoor Track and Field Championships
• USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships

Notable annual meetings

• Adidas Grand Prix
• Adidas Track Classic
• Arcadia Invitational
• Athens Grand Prix Tsiklitiria
• Athletics Bridge
• Athletissima
• Bislett Games
• British Grand Prix
• CCCAA Championships
• Cezmi Or Memorial
• Colorful Daegu Championships Meeting
• DN Galan
• Drake Relays
• European Athletics Festival Bydgoszcz
• Fanny Blankers-Koen Games
• Golden Gala
• Golden Grand Prix
• Golden Spike Ostrava
• Grande Premio Brasil Caixa de Atletismo
• Hanžeković Memorial
• Herculis
• IAAF World Challenge Beijing
• Internationales Stadionfest (ISTAF Berlin)
• Jamaica International Invitational
• Janusz Kusociński Memorial
• Josef Odložil Memorial
• Kansas Relays
• London Grand Prix
• Meeting Areva
• Meeting de Atletismo Madrid
• Meeting Grand Prix IAAF de Dakar
• Melbourne Track Classic
• Memorial Primo Nebiolo
• Memorial Van Damme
• Mt. SAC Relays
• NCAA Men's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships
• NCAA Women's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships
• Osaka Grand Prix
• Palio Citta della Quercia
• Penn Relays
• Prefontaine Classic
• Ponce Grand Prix
• Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix
• Rieti Meeting
• Shanghai Golden Grand Prix
• Sydney Track Classic
• Texas Relays
• Weltklasse Zürich

Indoor meets

• Aviva Indoor Grand Prix
• Boston Indoor Games
• Gugl Indoor Meeting
• Indoor Flanders Meeting
• Meeting Pas de Calais
• Millrose Games
• Russian Winter Meeting
• Sparkassen Cup
• Weltklasse in Karlsruhe
• XL Galan