List of Israeli records in athletics

The following are the national records in athletics in Israel maintained by Israeli Athletic Association (IAA).

Outdoor

Key to tables:   Awaiting ratification   Record not kept by IAA   Not ratified or later rescinded by IAA

Men

Event	Record	Athlete	Date	Meet	Place	Ref.
100 m	10.20 (−0.6 m/s)	Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy	21 August 1999	World Championships	Seville, Spain
	10.20 (+1.7 m/s)	Blessing Afrifah	21 May 2023	Hapoel Championships	Tel Aviv, Israel	[1]
	10.20 (+1.6 m/s)	Blessing Afrifah	9 May 2024	Hapoel Championships	Jerusalem, Israel	[2]
	10.20 (+0.9 m/s)	Blessing Afrifah	9 May 2024	Hapoel Championships	Jerusalem, Israel	[3]
150 m	15.57 (+0.6 m/s)	Blessing Afrifah	27 April 2023		Tel Aviv, Israel	[4]
200 m	19.96 A (−1.0 m/s)	Blessing Afrifah	4 August 2022	World U20 Championships	Cali, Colombia	[5]
300 m	32.76	Blessing Afrifah	30 December 2024	Open Meet Tel-Aviv 1	Tel Aviv, Israel	[6]
400 m	45.04	Donald Sanford	19 July 2015	Brothers Znamensky Memorial	Zhukovsky, Russia	[7]
600 m	1:16.03	Noam Mamu	5 May 2024	Internationales Läufermeeting	Pliezhausen, Germany	[8]
800 m	1:47.18	Noam Mamu	19 June 2024	Meeting Internazionale Città di Nembro	Nembro, Italy	[9]
	1:46.83[a]	Dustin Emrani	15 June 2011		Indianapolis, United States
	1:46.46[b]	Mark Handelsman	15 July 1982		Lausanne, Switzerland
	1:46.49[c]		31 August 1983		Koblenz, Germany
1000 m	2:21.38	Ronnie Maoz	19 August 1983		Menden, Germany
1500 m	3:40.64	Jonathan Carmin	3 May 2024	Arkansas Twilight	Fayetteville, United States	[10]
Mile	4:03.40[d]	Ronnie Maoz	20 August 1984		Hamburg, Germany
2000 m	5:10.12	Itai Maggidi	8 January 2007		Tel Aviv, Israel
3000 m	7:51.40	Gezachw Yossef	15 July 2009		Naimette-Xhovemont, Belgium
5000 m	13:31.45	Gezachw Yossef	18 July 2009	KBC Night of Athletics	Heusden-Zolder, Belgium
5 km (road)	13:44	Tadesse Gethahon	7 January 2021		Yarkon Park, Israel
10,000 m	27:33.99	Tadesse Gethahon	20 May 2023	Night of the 10000m PBs	London, United Kingdom	[11]
10 km (road)	28:12	Tadesse Getahon	14 January 2024	10K Valencia Ibercaja	Valencia, Spain	[12]
	28:11[e]	Maru Teferi	23 February 2025	Napoli City Half Marathon	Napoli, Italy	[13]
15 km (road)	42:53+	Tadesse Getahon	10 March 2024	NN CPC Loop Den Haag	Den Haag, Netherlands	[14]
20,000 m (track)	58:53.6+	Girmaw Amare	26 January 2020		Tel Aviv, Israel
20 km (road)	57:53+	Tadesse Getahon	10 March 2024	NN CPC Loop Den Haag	Den Haag, Netherlands	[15]
	57:43+	Tadesse Getahon	15 September 2024	Copenhagen Half Marathon	Copenhagen, Denmark	[16]
	56:58+	Gashau Ayale	9 March 2025	Lisbon Half Marathon	Lisbon, Portugal	[17]
One hour	20384 m	Girmaw Amare	26 January 2020		Tel Aviv, Israel
Half marathon	59:59	Gashau Ayale	9 March 2025	Lisbon Half Marathon	Lisbon, Portugal	[18]
25 km (road)	1:13:31+	Gashau Ayale	18 February 2024	Seville Marathon	Seville, Spain	[19]
30 km (road)	1:28:07+	Gashau Ayale	18 February 2024	Seville Marathon	Seville, Spain	[20]
Marathon	2:04:44	Maru Teferi	1 December 2024	Valencia Marathon	Valencia, Spain	[21]
110 m hurdles	13.85 (±0.0 m/s)	Michael Illin	10 June 2007		Bucharest, Romania
400 m hurdles	49.87	Aleksey Bazarov	11 September 1991		Koblenz, Germany
2000 m steeplechase	5:44.92	Itai Maggidi	25 June 2000		Tel Aviv, Israel
3000 m steeplechase	8:24.14	Itai Maggidi	4 July 2008		Metz, France
High jump	2.36 m	Konstantin Matusevich	5 February 2000		Perth, Australia
Pole vault	5.93 m	Aleksandr Averbukh	19 July 2003		Madrid, Spain
Long jump	7.99 m (+1.1 m/s)	Yochai Halevi	15 May 2010		Tel Aviv, Israel	[22]
Triple jump	17.20 m (+0.9 m/s)	Rogel Nachum	6 June 1992		Seville, Spain
	17.20 m (+1.6 m/s)		19 July 1998		Tel Aviv, Israel
Shot put	19.09 m[f]	Igor Avrunin	22 June 1991		Athens, Greece
Discus throw	62.24 m	Igor Avrunin	1 June 1991		Tel Aviv, Israel
Hammer throw	65.70 m	Igor Giller	6 May 1995		Tel Aviv, Israel
	72.00 m	Oleksandr Dryhol	22 June 2016		Tel Aviv, Israel	[citation needed]
Javelin throw	81.94 m	Vadim Bavikin	8 June 2004		Zaragoza, Spain
Decathlon	7343 pts	Ariel Attias	13–14 May 2023	Missouri Valley Conference Championships	Des Moines, United States
	100m Long jump Shot put High jump 400m 110m H Discus Pole vault Javelin 1500m 11.35 (+1.7 m/s) 7.01 m (−0.9 m/s) 14.46 m 1.93 m 52.20 15.59 (+0.6 m/s) 41.89 m 4.60 m 61.15 m 5:10.29
10,000 m walk (track)	41:51.40	Vladimir Ostrovskiy	26 May 1993		Tel Aviv, Israel
20 km walk (road)	1:23:01	Vladimir Ostrovskiy	15 February 1992		Ein Gedi, Israel
50 km walk (road)	4:17:07[g]	Shaul Ladany	2 July 1972		Marcinelle, Belgium
50 miles walk (road)	7:23:50 [WB][h]	Shaul Ladany	1972		New Jersey, United States	[23]
4 × 100 m relay	38.81	Israel Rafel Yaar Gideon Jablonka Tommy Kafri Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy	28 August 1999	World Championships	Seville, Spain
4 × 200 m relay	1:23.98	Maccabi Tel Aviv Micky Bar-Yeoshua Kfir Golan Tommy Kafri Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy	1 July 2000		Antony, France
4 × 400 m relay	3:09.93	Israel	23 June 2013		Kaunaus, Lithuania
	3:08.78[i]	Israel Y. Shapsai Donald Sanford D. Emrani Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy	3 June 2012		Bydgoszcz, Poland
	3:06.52	Israel	27 May 2015		Patiala, India
4 × 800 m relay	7:42.28	Hapoel Emek Hefer Yair Karni Doron Zimman Shmuel Schusterman Shlomo Azulay	25 May 1986		Tel Aviv, Israel
4 × 1500 m relay	15:52.27	Hapoel Emek Hefer Shmuel Schusterman Doron Zimman Yair Karni Shlomo Azulay	24 May 1986		Tel Aviv, Israel

Women

Event	Record	Athlete	Date	Meet	Place	Ref.	Video
100 m	11.06 (+1.2 m/s)	Diana Vaisman	3 July 2022	Resisprint International	La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland	[24]
200 m	23.15 (+2.0 m/s)	Irina Lenskiy	23 June 2002		Belgrade, Yugoslavia
300 m	38.40	Olga Lenskiy	2016		Israel
	38.3 h	Esther Roth	1975		Tel Aviv, Israel
400 m	52.06	Anna Tkach	24 August 2003	World Championships	St. Denis, France	[25]
600 m	1:28.12	Rachel Perez-Martinez	31 July 2024	Open meet	Jerusalem, Israel	[26]
800 m	2:02.59	Shanie Landen	18 June 2024	Boysen Memorial	Oslo, Norway	[27]
1000 m	2:43.99[j]	Karawan Halabi	15 February 2022		Tel Aviv, Israel
1500 m	4:09.36	Sivan Auerbach	26 May 2024	IFAM Outdoor	Brussels, Belgium	[28]
Mile	4:46.1 h[k]	Anat Meiri	5 August 1980		Tel Aviv, Israel
2000 m	5:52.3 h	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	2 February 2019		Tel Aviv, Israel
3000 m	8:42.88	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	18 August 2018	Diamond League	Birmingham, United Kingdom	[29]
5000 m	14:53.43[l]	Selamawit Teferi	30 July 2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	[30]
5 km (road)	15:15+	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	15 February 2019		Or Yehuda, Israel
10,000 m	30:46.37	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	15 August 2022	European Championships	Munich, Germany	[31]
10 km (road)	30:05 Mx	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	1 September 2019	Tilburg 10 Miles	Tilburg, Netherlands	[32]
15 km (road)	47:28+	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	14 October 2018	Lisbon Half Marathon	Lisbon, Portugal
	46:43+	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	6 April 2019	Prague Half Marathon	Prague, Czech Republic	[33]
10 miles (road)	50:45 a	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	23 September 2018	Dam tot Damloop	Amsterdam, Netherlands	[34]
One hour	18571 m	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	4 September 2020	Memorial van Damme	Brussels, Belgium	[35]
20 km (road)	1:05:32+	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	24 March 2018	World Half Marathon Championships	Valencia, Spain	[36]
	1:02:43+	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	6 April 2019	Prague Half Marathon	Prague, Czech Republic	[37]
Half marathon	1:06:09	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	6 April 2019	Prague Half Marathon	Prague, Czech Republic	[38]
	1:07:55 Wo	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	14 October 2018	Lisbon Half Marathon	Lisbon, Portugal
25 km (road)	1:28:48	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	14 May 2017	Big 25 Berlin	Berlin, Germany	[39]
	1:26:04+	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	25 November 2018	Firenze Marathon	Firenze, Italy	[40]
	1:23:25+	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	5 May 2019	Prague Marathon	Prague, Czech Republic	[41]
	1:22:00+	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	1 March 2020	Tokyo Marathon	Tokyo, Japan	[42]
30 km (road)	1:38:18+ Wo	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	13 March 2022	Nagoya Women's Marathon	Nagoya, Japan	[43]
Marathon	2:17:45	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	1 March 2020	Tokyo Marathon	Tokyo, Japan	[44]
100 m hurdles	12.80 (+1.0 m/s)	Irina Lenskiy	7 July 2002		Rethymno, Greece
200 m hurdles	28.26	Puha Neiger	1989		Israel
300 m hurdles	44.29	Puha Neiger	1988		Israel
400 m hurdles	56.09	Irina Lenskiy	18 June 2000		Kyiv, Ukraine
2000 m steeplechase	6:28.65	Adva Cohen	10 September 2023	Hanžeković Memorial	Zagreb, Croatia	[45]
3000 m steeplechase	9:27.79	Adva Cohen	30 May 2025	Irena Szewińska Memorial	Bydgoszcz, Poland	[46]
High jump	1.92 m[m]	Danielle Frenkel	30 July 2010	European Championships	Barcelona, Spain	[47]
		Ma'ayan Fureman-Shahaf	9 August 2011		Neurim, Israel	[48][49]
			17 July 2013		Tel Aviv, Israel
Pole vault	4.30 m[n]	Naama Bernstein	14 June 2021		Tel Aviv, Israel
			23 May 2022		Tel Aviv, Israel
	4.60 m[o]	Jillian Schwartz	12 June 2010	Adidas Grand Prix	New York City, United States	[50]
Long jump	6.52 m (+0.4 m/s)	Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko	17 July 2014	78th Israeli Championships	Tel Aviv, Israel	[51]
Triple jump	14.78 m (−0.1 m/s)	Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko	24 August 2015	World Championships	Beijing, China	[52]
Shot put	17.22 m	Anastasia Muchkaev	28 April 2012		Tel Aviv, Israel	[53]
Discus throw	59.92 m	Sivan Jean	16 February 2008		Tel Aviv, Israel
	60.37 m	Yevgeniya Zabolotniy	21 April 2012		Tel Aviv, Israel	[54]
Hammer throw	60.60 m	Yevgeniya Zabolotniy	19 May 2015		Neurim, Israel
	61.78 m[p]	Margarita Belov	15 April 2017		Tel Aviv, Israel	[55]
Javelin throw	64.56 m	Marharyta Dorozhon	11 June 2015	Bislett Games	Oslo, Norway	[56]
Heptathlon	6031 pts	Svetlana Gnezdilov	12–13 August 2003		Tel Aviv, Israel
	100m H High jump Shot put 200m Long jump Javelin 800m 13.26 (+1.9 m/s) 1.68 m 12.38 m 24.28 6.31 m (+1.1 m/s) 34.92 m 2:10.39
5000 m walk (track)	23:44.1[q]	Iulia Kotler	28 April 1998		Tel Aviv, Israel
10,000 m walk (track)	50:51.1[r]	Dorit Attias	1991
10 km (road)	47:46	Iulia Kotler	25 October 1997		Mukachevo, Ukraine
20 km walk (road)	1:40:12[s]	Iulia Kotler	29 July 1999		Tel Aviv, Israel
50 km walk (road)
4 × 100 m relay	44.79	Israel Gal Kadmon Diana Vaisman Olga Lenskay Yarko Ilana Dorfman	24 August 2019	Diamond League	Paris, France	[57]
4 × 200 m relay	1:40.79	Hapoel Jerusalem Sharon Lev Mazal Mantzuri Puha Neiger Tami Bloch	28 May 1989		Tel Aviv, Israel
Swedish relay	2:14.13	Hapoel Jerusalem	1988		Israel
4 × 400 m relay	3:32.99	Israel Irina Lenskiy Svetlana Gnezdilov Anat Morad Anna Tkach	30 August 2003	World Championships	St. Denis, France	[58]
4 × 800 m relay	9:15.5	ASA Tel Aviv	27 June 1982		Tel Aviv, Israel

Mixed

Event	Record	Athlete	Date	Meet	Place	Ref.
4 × 400 m relay	3:27.57	Israel Eran Siboni Shani Zakay Noam Mamu Nitzan Asas	22 June 2023	European Team Championships	Chorzów, Poland	[59]

Indoor

Men

Event	Record	Athlete	Date	Meet	Place	Ref.
60 y	6.41	Tal Mor	4 February 2006		Lubbock, United States
60 m	6.68	Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy	21 February 1999		Samara, Russia
	6.68	Attila Farkas	26 January 2002		Budapest, Hungary
200 m	20.69	Blessing Afrifah	10 February 2024	Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais	Liévin, France	[60]
300 y	31.8 h	Manny Rosenberg	February 1984		Carbondale, United States
300 m	34.12 A	Itai Iluz	March 1987		Pocatello, United States
400 m	46.46	Donald Sanford	8 February 2014	David Hemery Valentine Invitational	Boston, United States	[61]
440 y	50.8 h	Yoav Mekel	19 February 1984		West Point, United States
500 m	1:00.86	Donald Sanford	25 January 2014	BU John Thomas Terrier Invitational	Boston, United States	[62]
600 m	1:17.28	Noam Mamu	8 February 2025	Meeting Metz Moselle Athleor	Metz, France	[63]
800 m	1:49.69	Noam Mamu	27 January 2024	14e AV PEC 1910 Indoor	Apeldoorn, Netherlands	[64]
	1:49.62 OT	Gezachw Yossef	3 February 2001		Lubbock, United States
	1:47.81	Dustin Emrani	11 February 2012	Boston University Valentine Invitational	Boston, United States	[65]
1000 m	2:24.49	Gezachw Yossef	24 January 1998		Columbia, Missouri, United States
	2:12.0 h	Mark Handelsman	17 February 1984		San Diego, United States
	2:23.87	Dustin Emrani	13 January 2012	NYC Gotham Cup	New York City, United States	[66]
1500 m	3:47.85	Itai Maggidi	25 February 2005		Clemson, United States
Mile	4:00.87	Mickey Kubrin	15 February 2008		Fayetteville, United States
3000 m	7:53.46	Derebe Ayele	3 February 2024	Meeting Metz Moselle Athleor	Metz, France	[67]
	7:52.38 OT	Matan Ivri	1 February 2025	Meyo Invitational	Notre Dame, United States	[68]
Two miles	8:51.9 h	Yair Karni	27 January 1979		Portland, United States
5000 m	13:45.52	Matan Ivri	7 December 2024	Boston University Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener	Boston, United States	[69]
60 m hurdles	7.86	Dor Hayon	28 January 2024	Elán Miting	Bratislava, Slovakia	[70]
High jump	2.31 m	Konstantin Matusevich	10 March 1996	European Championships	Stockholm, Sweden
Pole vault	5.86 m	Aleksandr Averbukh	15 February 2001		Stockholm, Sweden
Long jump	7.78 m	Aviram Schwartzbard	26 February 2022		New York City, United States
Triple jump	16.93 m	Rogel Nachum	1 March 1998	European Championships	Valencia, Spain
Shot put	19.36 m	Itamar Levi	27 January 2018	ASU Invitational	Jonesboro, United States	[71]
Weight throw	19.99 m	Adar Sheere	27 January 2021		South Bend, United States
Heptathlon	5680 pts	Etamar Bhastekar	29-30 January 2021	Razorback Invitational	Fayetteville, United States	[72]
	60m Long jump Shot put High jump 60m H Pole vault 1000m 6.97 6.99 m 10.63 m 1.95 m 8.32 5.25 m 2:46.49
5000 m walk	19:17.45	Vladimir Ostrovskiy	23 February 1991		Prague, Czech Republic
4 × 400 m relay

Women

Event	Record	Athlete	Date	Meet	Place	Ref.
50 m	6.4 h	Esther Shahamorov	15 January 1972		Dortmund, West Germany
60 m	7.20	Diana Vaisman	18 March 2022[t]	World Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	[73]
	7.1 h	Esther Rot	12 February 1976		Bucharest, Romania
200 m	24.05	Irina Lenskiy	27 January 2002	Russian Winter Meeting	Moscow, Russia
300 m	40.89	Rita Pogorelov	12 January 2008		Bowling Green, United States
400 m	55.34	Olga Dor-Dogadko	14 February 1999	Indoor Flanders Meeting	Ghent, Belgium
500 m	1:13.61	Shanie Landen	12 February 2016	David Hemery Valentine Invitational	Boston, United States	[74]
	1:09.64	Anna Tkach	7 January 2003		Moscow, Russia
600 m	1:35.70 OT	Shanie Landen	16 January 2016	UW Indoor Preview	Seattle, United States	[75]
800 m	2:07.46	Sivan Auerbach	27 January 2024	Razorback Invitational	Fayetteville, United States	[76]
1000 m	2:43.65	Sivan Auerbach	12 January 2024	Arkansas Invitational	Fayetteville, United States
1500 m	4:12.44+	Adva Cohen	2 March 2025	BU Last Chance National Qualifier	Boston, United States	[77]
Mile	4:31.10	Adva Cohen	2 March 2025	BU Last Chance National Qualifier	Boston, United States	[78]
3000 m	8:48.11	Selamawit Teferi	14 February 2022	Meeting de l’Eure	Val-de-Reuil, France
5000 m	15:23.93	Adva Cohen	7 December 2024	BU Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener	Boston, United States	[79]
60 m hurdles	8.03	Irina Lenskiy	27 January 2002	Russian Winter Meeting	Moscow, Russia
High jump	1.94 m	Danielle Frenkel	5 March 2011	European Championships	Paris, France	[80]
Pole vault	4.35 m	Naama Bernstein	3 February 2021	Czech Indoor Gala	Ostrava, Czech Republic	[81]
	4.60 m[u]	Jillian Schwartz	30 May 2010		Jonesboro, United States	[82]
Long jump	6.32 m	Eden Finkelstein	10 February 2019		Istanbul, Turkey
Triple jump	14.49 m	Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko	8 March 2015	European Championships	Prague, Czech Republic	[83]
Shot put	16.78 m	Annastasia Muchkaev	25 January 2013	Jayhawk Classic	Lawrence, United States	[84]
Weight throw	15.33 m	Sivan Abali	2 February 2007		Carbondale, United States
Pentathlon	3993 pts	Marina Lippis	18 February 1999		Minsk, Belarus
	60m H High jump Shot put Long jump 800m 8.97 1.66 m 13.93 m 5.71 m 2:28.63
1500 m walk	7:06.12	Dorit Attias	17 February 1990		East Rutherford, United States
Mile walk	7:27.7 h	Dorit Attias	14 February 1988		Alexandria[clarification needed], United States
3000 m walk	15:19.4 h	Dorit Attias	7 January 1990		Princeton, United States
4 × 400 m relay

Notes

1. not ratified by IAA but recognised by World Athletics
2. not recognised by federation though he represented Israel at the 1984 Olympic Games
3. not recognised by federation though he represented Israel at the 1984 Olympic Games
4. indoor mark ratified as absolute record
5. The performance was not eligible for national record and not recognised by federation status given that the course did not satisfy rules that regarded elevation drop (an average of 1 m/km while the course elevation drops 1.99 m/km on average) and start/finish separation of less than 50% of the course length (the latter requirement being intended to prevent advantages gained from a strong tailwind)
6. indoor mark ratified as absolute record
7. by World Athletics source; 4:17:06 by IAA source
8. by IAA source, questionable due to 7:44;47.2 by other sources
9. not ratified by IAA but recognised by World Athletics
10. outdoor best; indoor mark ratified as absolute record
11. outdoor best; indoor mark ratified as absolute record
12. by official result source; 14:53.48 by IAA source, a typo
13. Indoor mark ratified as absolute record
14. Indoor mark ratified as absolute record
15. Mark not ratified because Schwartz did not live in Israel at least one year
16. not ratified by IAA but recognised by World Athletics
17. ratified by IAA but not recognised by World Athletics
18. ratified by IAA but not recognised by World Athletics
19. by IAA source and World Athletics statistic handbook; 1:40:11 by World Athletics profile
20. by official result source; 19 March 2022 by IAA source, a typo
21. Mark not ratified because Schwartz did not live in Israel at least one year