World and Olympic records set at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Numerous world records and Olympic records were set in various events at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Some events occur under non-standard conditions, such as canoeing. In these cases, there are no official records, just "world best" and "Olympic best" results.

Archery

Event Round Name Nation Score Date Record Women's individual Ranking round An San 680 23 July Women's team Ranking round An SanJang Min-heeKang Chae-young 2032 23 July Mixed team Ranking round Kim Je-deokAn San 1368 23 July

Athletics

EventRoundNameNationTime (distance)DateRecord Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay Round 1 Dariusz KowalukIga Baumgart-WitanMałgorzata Hołub-KowalikKajetan Duszyński 3:10.44 30 July Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay Final Karol ZalewskiNatalia KaczmarekJustyna Święty-ErseticKajetan Duszyński 3:09.87 31 July Women's 100 metres Final Elaine Thompson Herah 10.61 31 July Women's 100 metres hurdles Semifinal Jasmine Camacho-Quinn 12.26 1 August Women's triple jump Final Yulimar Rojas 15.67 m 1 August Women's 200 metres Round 1 Christine Mboma 22.11 2 August Women's 200 metres Semifinal Christine Mboma 21.97 2 August Men's 400 metres hurdles Final Karsten Warholm 45.94 3 August Women's 200 metres Final Christine Mboma 21.81 3 August Men's decathlon 100 metres Damian Warner 10.12 4 August = Men's decathlon Long jump Damian Warner 8.24 m 4 August Women's 400 metres hurdles Final Sydney McLaughlin 51.46 4 August Men's decathlon 110 metres hurdles Damian Warner 13.46 5 August Men's shot put Final Ryan Crouser 23.30 m 5 August Men's 1500 metres Semifinal Abel Kipsang 3:31.65 5 August Women's 1500 metres Final Faith Kipyegon 3:53.11 6 August Men's 1500 metres Final Jakob Ingebrigtsen 3:28.32 7 August

Canoe sprint

EventRoundNameNationTimeDateRecord Women's K-1 200 metres Semifinal Lisa Carrington 38.127 3 August Men's C-2 1000 metres Semifinal Liu HaoZheng Pengfei 3:27.023 3 August Men's C-2 1000 metres Semifinal Sebastian BrendelTim Hecker 3:26.812 3 August Men's K-1 1000 metres Semifinal Bálint Kopasz 3:24.558 3 August Men's K-1 1000 metres Semifinal Fernando Pimenta 3:22.942 3 August Women's K-2 500 metres Semifinal Danuta KozákDóra Bodonyi 1:37.912 3 August Women's K-2 500 metres Semifinal Lisa CarringtonCaitlin Regal 1:36.724 3 August Women's K-1 200 metres Final Lisa Carrington 38.120 3 August Men's C-2 1000 metres Final Serguey TorresFernando Jorge 3:24.995 3 August Men's K-1 1000 metres Final Bálint Kopasz 3:20.643 3 August Women's K-2 500 metres Final Lisa CarringtonCaitlin Regal 1:35.785 3 August Men's K-1 200 metres Heat Petter Menning 34.698 4 August Men's K-1 200 metres Heat Kolos Csizmadia 34.442 4 August Women's C-1 200 metres Heat Liudmyla Luzan 45.571 4 August Women's C-1 200 metres Heat Nevin Harrison 44.938 4 August Men’s K-2 1000 metres Heat Jean van der WesthuyzenThomas Green 3:08.773 4 August Men's K-1 200 metres Quarterfinal Liam Heath 33.985 4 August Women's C-2 500 metres Heat Xu ShixiaoSun Mengya 1:57.870 6 August Men's K-4 500 metres Heat Max RendschmidtRonald RauheTom LiebscherMax Lemke 1:21.890 6 August Men's K-4 500 metres Heat Saúl CraviottoMarcus WalzCarlos ArévaloRodrigo Germade 1:21.658 6 August Women's C-2 500 metres Final Xu ShixiaoSun Mengya 1:55.495 7 August

Track cycling

EventRoundNameNationTimeDateRecord Women's team pursuit Qualifying Franziska BraußeLisa BrennauerLisa KleinMieke Kröger 4:07.307 2 August Women's team sprint First round Bao ShanjuZhong Tianshi 31.804 2 August Men's team pursuit Qualifying Lasse Norman HansenNiklas LarsenFrederik RodenbergRasmus Pedersen 3:45.014 2 August Women's team pursuit First round Katie ArchibaldLaura KennyNeah EvansJosie Knight 4:06.748 3 August Women's team pursuit First round Franziska BraußeLisa BrennauerLisa KleinMieke Kröger 4:06.159 3 August Men's team sprint Qualifying Matthew RichardsonNathan HartMatthew Glaetzer 42.371 3 August Men's team sprint Qualifying Roy van den BergHarrie LavreysenMatthijs Büchli 42.134 3 August Men's team pursuit First round Kelland O'BrienSam WelsfordLeigh HowardLuke Plapp 3:44.902 3 August Men's team pursuit First round Simone ConsonniFilippo GannaFrancesco LamonJonathan Milan 3:42.307 3 August Men's team sprint First round Matthew RichardsonNathan HartMatthew Glaetzer 42.103 3 August Men's team sprint First round Jack CarlinJason KennyRyan Owens 41.829 3 August Men's team sprint First round Roy van den BergHarrie LavreysenJeffrey Hoogland 41.431 3 August Women's team pursuit Final Franziska BraußeLisa BrennauerLisa KleinMieke Kröger 4:04.242 3 August Men's team sprint Final Roy van den BergHarrie LavreysenJeffrey Hoogland 41.369 3 August Men's sprint Qualifying Jeffrey Hoogland 9.215 4 August Men's team pursuit Final Simone ConsonniFilippo GannaFrancesco LamonJonathan Milan 3:42.032 4 August Women's sprint Qualifying Lea Friedrich 10.310 6 August

Modern pentathlon

EventRoundNameNationTime/PointsDateRecord Women's modern pentathlon Swimming Gulnaz Gubaydullina 2:07.31 6 August Women's modern pentathlon Fencing () Annika Schleu 274 pts 6 August Women's modern pentathlon Laser run Laura Asadauskaitė 11:38.37 6 August Women's modern pentathlon Overall Kate French 1385 pts 6 August Men's modern pentathlon Swimming Amro El Geziry 1:52.96 7 August Men's modern pentathlon Laser run Martin Vlach 10:30.13 7 August Men's modern pentathlon Overall Joe Choong 1482 pts 7 August

Rowing

World Rowing do not recognize records due to the huge variability that weather conditions can have on times. Instead, they observe best times over the international racing distance of 2000 metres. EventRoundNameNationTimeDateRecord Men's double sculls Heats Hugo BoucheronMatthieu Androdias 6:10.45 23 July Men's double sculls Heats Melvin TwellaarStef Broenink 6:08.38 23 July Women's four Heats Ellen HogerwerfKarolien FlorijnYmkje CleveringVeronique Meester 6:33.47 24 July Women's four Heats Lucy StephanRosemary PopaJessica MorrisonAnnabelle McIntyre 6:28.76 24 July Women's double sculls Final Nicoleta-Ancuța BodnarSimona Radiș 6:41.03 28 July Men's double sculls Final Hugo BoucheronMatthieu Androdias 6:00.33 28 July Women's four Final Lucy StephanRosemary PopaJessica MorrisonAnnabelle McIntyre 6:15.37 28 July Men's four Final Alexander PurnellSpencer TurrinJack HargreavesAlexander Hill 5:42.76 28 July Men's quadruple sculls Final Dirk UittenbogaardAbe WiersmaTone WietenKoen Metsemakers 5:32.03 28 July Women's quadruple sculls Final Chen YunxiaZhang LingLü YangCui Xiaotong 6:05.13 28 July Men's lightweight double sculls Semifinal Jonathan RommelmannJason Osborne 6:07.33 28 July Men's lightweight double sculls Semifinal Fintan McCarthyPaul O'Donovan 6:05.33 28 July Women's lightweight double sculls Semifinal Emily CraigImogen Grant 6:41.99 28 July Women's lightweight double sculls Semifinal Valentina RodiniFederica Cesarini 6:41.36 28 July Women's coxless pair Semifinal Maria KyridouChristina Bourmpou 6:48.70 28 July Women's coxless pair Semifinal Grace PrendergastKerri Gowler 6:47.41 28 July Women's eight Repechage Maria-Magdalena RusuViviana Iuliana BejinariuGeorgiana DeduMaria TivodariuIoana VrînceanuAmalia BereșMădălina BereșDenisa TîlvescuDaniela Druncea 5:52.99 28 July Women's single sculls Final Emma Twigg 7:13.97 30 July Men's single sculls Final Stefanos Ntouskos 6:40.45 30 July

Shooting

EventRoundNameNationScoreDateRecord Women's 10 metre air rifle Qualification Jeanette Hegg Duestad 632.9 24 July Women's 10 metre air rifle Final Yang Qian 251.8 24 July Men's 10 metre air pistol Final Javad Foroughi 244.8 24 July Women's 10 metre air pistol Qualification Jiang Ranxin 587 25 July = Women's 10 metre air pistol Final Vitalina Batsarashkina 240.3 25 July Men's 10 metre air rifle Qualification Yang Haoran 632.7 25 July Men's 10 metre air rifle Final William Shaner 251.6 25 July Women's skeet Qualification Wei Meng 124 26 July =Men's skeet Qualification Éric Delaunay 124 26 July Tammaro Cassandro Women's skeet Final Amber English 56 26 July Men's skeet Final Vincent Hancock 59 26 July Mixed 10 metre air pistol team Qualification Manu BhakerSaurabh Chaudhary 582 27 July Mixed 10 metre air rifle team Qualification Yang QianYang Haoran 633.2 27 July Women's trap Qualification Zuzana Rehák-Štefečeková 125 29 July Women's trap Final Zuzana Rehák-Štefečeková 43 29 July Men's trap Final Jiří Lipták 43 29 July David Kostelecký Women's 25 metre pistol Final Vitalina Batsarashkina 38 30 July Kim Min-jung Mixed trap team Qualification Fátima GálvezAlberto Fernández 148 31 July Alessandra PerilliGian Marco Berti Women's 50 metre rifle three positions Qualification Yulia Zykova 1182 31 July Women's 50 metre rifle three positions Final Nina Christen 463.9 31 July Men's 50 metre rifle three positions Final Zhang Changhong 466.0 2 August

Sport climbing

EventRoundNameNationTimeDateRecord Men's combined (speed) Qualification Bassa Mawem 5.45 3 August Women's combined (speed)QualificationAleksandra Mirosław6.974 AugustWomen's combined (speed)FinalAleksandra Mirosław6.846 AugustWR

Swimming

Men Event Round Name Nation Time Date Record Day Men's 800 metre freestyle Heats Mykhailo Romanchuk 7:41.28 27 July 4 Men's 200 metre butterfly Final Kristóf Milák 1:51.25 28 July 5 Men's 200 metre breaststroke Final Zac Stubblety-Cook 2:06.38 29 July 6 Men's 100 metre freestyle Final Caeleb Dressel 47.02 29 July 6 Men's 100 metre butterfly Heats Caeleb Dressel 50.39 29 July 6 Men's 100 metre butterfly Semifinal Kristóf Milák 50.31 30 July 7 Men's 100 metre butterfly Semifinal Caeleb Dressel 49.71 30 July 7 Men's 200 metre backstroke Final Evgeny Rylov 1:53.27 30 July 7 Men's 100 metre butterfly Final Caeleb Dressel 49.45 31 July 8 Men's 50 metre freestyle Final Caeleb Dressel 21.07 1 August 9 Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay Final Ryan Murphy (52.31)Michael Andrew (58.49)Caeleb Dressel (49.03)Zach Apple (46.95) 3:26.78 1 August 9

Women Event Round Name Nation Time Date Record Day Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay Final Bronte Campbell (53.01)Meg Harris (53.09)Emma McKeon (51.35)Cate Campbell (52.24) 3:29.69 25 July 2 Women's 100 metre freestyle Final Sarah Sjöström 52.62 r 25 July 2 Women's 100 metre backstroke Heats Kylie Masse 58.17 25 July 2 Women's 100 metre backstroke Heats Regan Smith 57.96 25 July 2 Women's 100 metre backstroke Heats Kaylee McKeown 57.88 25 July 2 Women's 100 metre breaststroke Heats Tatjana Schoenmaker 1:04.82 25 July 2 Women's 100 metre backstroke Semifinal Regan Smith 57.86 26 July 3 Women's 1500 metre freestyle Heats Katie Ledecky 15:35.35 26 July 3 Women's 100 metre backstroke Final Kaylee McKeown 57.47 27 July 4 Women's 200 metre freestyle Final Ariarne Titmus 1:53.50 28 July 5 Women's 100 metre freestyle Heats Emma McKeon 52.13 28 July 5 Women's 200 metre breaststroke Heats Tatjana Schoenmaker 2:19.16 28 July 5 Women's 200 metre butterfly Final Zhang Yufei 2:03.86 29 July 6 Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay Final Yang Junxuan (1:54.37)Tang Muhan (1:55.00)Zhang Yufei (1:55.66)Li Bingjie (1:55.30) 7:40.33 29 July 6 Women's 200 metre breaststroke Final Tatjana Schoenmaker 2:18.95 30 July 7 Women's 100 metre freestyle Final Emma McKeon 51.96 30 July 7 Women's 50 metre freestyle Heats Emma McKeon 24.02 30 July 7 Women's 50 metre freestyle Semifinal Emma McKeon 24.00 31 July 8 Women's 50 metre freestyle Final Emma McKeon 23.81 1 August 9 Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay Final Kaylee McKeown (58.01)Chelsea Hodges (1:05.57)Emma McKeon (55.91)Cate Campbell (52.11) 3:51.60 1 August 9

Legend: r – First leg of relay

All world records (WR) are consequently Olympic records (OR).

Mixed Event Round Name Nation Time Date Record Day Mixed 4 × 100 metre medley relay Heats Kathleen Dawson (58.50)Adam Peaty (57.08)James Guy (50.58)Freya Anderson (52.59) 3:38.75 29 July 6 Mixed 4 × 100 metre medley relay Final Kathleen Dawson (58.80)Adam Peaty (56.78)James Guy (50.00)Anna Hopkin (52.00) 3:37.58 31 July 8

Weightlifting

Men