This is a list of missing athletes who have broken a world record in athletics. This focuses on IAAF-recognised outdoor world records after 1945 in standard events which have featured at a World Championship and/or Olympic programme. A total of 70 athletes were missing at creation on 1 October 2013.
Running[edit]
- 100 m
- 200 m
- 400 m
- Nancy Boyle
- Polina Lazareva
- 800 m
- Georgette Lenoir
- Yevdokia Vasilyeva
- Valentina Pomogayeva
- 1000 m
- 1500 m
- Anna Mushkina
- Lydia Freiberg
- Yevdokiya Vasilyeva
- Anna Zaytseva-Bosenko
- Yevdokiya Vasilyeva
- Olga Ovsyannikova
- Mile
- Anne Oliver
- Enid Harding
- Edith Treybal
- Brenda Cook
- 3000 metres
- Ana Cicanei
- Leila Buckland
- June Bridgland
- Roberta Picco
- 10,000 metres
- Hannelore Middeke
- Ann O'Brien
- Kathy Gibbons
- Loa Olafsson
- Peg Neppel
- Lyudmila Baranova
- Raisa Sadreydinova
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- 10 km walk
- Albertine Regel
- Margit Lindström
- Sandrah Holm
- Birgit Frisk
- May Holmén
- Stina Lindberg
- Sally Pierson
- Young Juxu
- 20 km walk
- Vladimir Guk
- Anatoliy Vedyakov
- Vadim Tsvetkov
- Bo Lingtang
- Marie van Tonder
- Irma Hansson
- Karin Møller
- Lilian Harpur
- Sally Pierson
- 50 km walk
- Anatoliy Yegorov
- Grigoriy Klimov
- Anatoliy Vedyakov
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Hurdles[edit]
- 80 m hurdles
- Eva von Bredow
- Galina Yermolenko
- 400 m hurdles
- 3000 m s'chase
- Grigoriy Taran
- Vladimir Dudin
- Sara Heeb
- Gracie Padilla
- Karen Harvey
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- High jump
- Elizabeth Stine
- Ilsebill Pfenning
- Pole vault
- Ruth Spencer
- Hazel Hutaff
- Emma Lee King
- Lois Tatum
- Eva Fisk
- Mildred Carl
- Elva Hintze
- Helene Henneke
- Yelena Goldobina
- Zoya Romanova
- Brenda Walker
- Irene Spieker
- Jana Edwards
- Shao Jingmen
- Zhou Minxin
- Long jump
- Triple jump
- Elizabeth Stine
- Adrienne Känel
- Rie Yamaguchi
- Terri Turner
- Melody Smith
- Easter Gabriel
- Shot put
- Discus throw
- Yvonne Tembouret
- Lisette Petré
- Maria Vidlaková
- Javelin throw
- Božena Šrámková
- Marie Janderová
- Guschi Hargus
- Anneliese Steinheuer
- Heptathlon
- Herbert Swoboda
- Liesl Albert
- Andrea Findeis
- Tatyana Shpak
- Nina Golovina
- Yekaterina Gordiyenko
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