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| 1 | 8.79 | Carl Lewis | USA | 610701 | 1 | New York, NY | 840127 |
| 2 | 8.62 | Ivan Pedroso | CUB | 721217 | 1 | Maebashi | 990307 |
| 3 | 8.56 | Yago Lamela | ESP | 770724 | 2 | Maebashi | 990307 |
| 4 | 8.49 | Robert Emmiyan | ARM | 650216 | 1 | Liévin, FRA | 870221 |
| 5 | 8.45 | Larry Myricks # | USA | 560310 | 1 | Liévin | 900127 |
| 6 | 8.44 | Mike Powell | USA | 631110 | 1 | Budapest | 930205 |
| 7 | 8.43 | Stanislav Tarasenko | RUS | 660722 | 1 | Moskva | 940126 |
| 8 | 8.43 | Erick Walder | USA | 711105 | 1 | Indianapolis | 940311 |
| 9 | 8.41 | Kirill Sosunov | RUS | 751101 | 2 | Paris | 970308 |
| 10 | 8.41 | Joe Greene | USA | 670217 | 3 | Paris | 970308 |
| 11 | 8.40 | James Beckford | JAM | 750109 | 2 | Madrid | 960209 |
| 12 | 8.38 | Vitaliy Shkurlatov | RUS | 790525 | 1 | Samara | 000130 |
| 13 | 8.34 | Llewellyn Starks | USA | 670210 | 1 | Stuttgart | 920202 |
| 14 | 8.33 | Reggie Kelly | USA | 620930 | 1 | Jackson | 831203 |
| 15 | 8.32 | Vladimir Ochkan ¶ | URS | 680113 | 1 | Vilnius | 880110 |
| 16 | 8.31 | Mike Conley | USA | 621005 | 1 | Rosemont | 860216 |
| 17 | 8.30 | Bob Beamon | USA | 450829 | 1 | Detroit | 680315 |
| 18 | 8.30 | Ivaylo Mladenov | BUL | 731009 | 1 | Piraeus | 940228 |
| 19 | 8.30 | Bogdan Tarus | ROM | 750801 | 1 | Bucuresti | 000130 |
| 20 | 8.28 | Roland McGhee | USA | 711015 | 1 | New York, NY | 950203 |
| 21 | 8.28 | Gregor Cankar | SLO | 750125 | 4 | Maebashi | 990307 |
| 22 | 8.27 | Yuriy Naumkin | RUS | 681105 | 1 | Shakhty | 950121 |
| 23 | 8.26 | Charlton Ehizuelen | NGR | 531130 | 1 | Bloomington, In | 750307 |
| 24 | 8.26 | Giovanni Evangelisti | ITA | 610911 | 2 | Liévin, FRA | 870221 |
| 25 | 8.26 | Bogdan Tudor | ROM | 700201 | 1 | Bucuresti | 990221 |
| 26 | 8.26 | Petar Dachev | BUL | 790615 | 1 | Gent | 000226 |
| 27 | 8.25 | Henry Hines | USA | 490212 | 1 | New York, NY | 730606 |
| 28 | 8.25 | Dietmar Haaf | FRG | 670307 | 2 | Sindelfingen | 890226 |
| 29 | 8.25 | Keith Talley | USA | 640128 | 1 | Johnson City | 910125 |
| 30 | 8.25 | Anthuan Maybank | USA | 691230 | 1 | Ames, Ia | 950128 |
| 31 | 8.25 | Aleksey Lukashevich | UKR | 770111 | 1 | Brovary | 000208 |
| 32 | 8.24 | Laszlo Szalma | HUN | 571021 | 2 | Madrid | 860222 |
| 33 | 8.23 | Igor Ter-Ovanesian | ARM | 380519 | 1 | Dortmund | 660327 |
| 34 | 8.23 | Khristo Markov | BUL | 650127 | 1 | Sofia | 850210 |
| 35 | 8.23 | Vladimir Bobylyov | URS | 660715 | 1 | Volgograd | 880210 |
| 36 | 8.23 | Emiel Mellaard | NED | 660321 | 1 | Den Haag | 890205 |
| 37 | 8.23 | Leroy Burrell | USA | 670221 | 1 | Indianapolis | 900309 |
| 38 | 8.23 | Dmitriy Bogryanov | RUS | 671218 | 1 | Moskva | 940114 |
| 39 | 8.23 | Huang Geng | CHN | 700710 | 1 | Tianjin | 960227 |
| 40 | 8.23 | Savante Stringfellow | USA | 781106 | 1 | Gainesville, Fl | 010203 |
| 41 | 8.22 | Brian Cooper | USA | 650821 | 1 | Princeton, NJ | 870227 |
| 42 | 8.22 | Kareem Streete-Thompson | USA | 730330 | 1 | Maebashi | 960212 |
| 43 | 8.21 | Winfried Klepsch | FRG | 560522 | 1 | Sindelfingen | 810207 |
| 44 | 8.21 | Luis Felipe Méliz Linares | CUB | 790811 | 2 | Madrid | 000216 |
| 45 | 8.20 | Mattias Sunneborn | SWE | 700927 | 2 | Barcelona | 950311 |
| 46 | 8.19 | Greg Artis | USA | 590924 | 1 | Murfreesboro | 820123 |
| 47 | 8.18A | George Gaffney | USA | 600725 | 1 | Flagstaff, Az | 830205 |
| 48 | 8.18 | Jaime Jefferson | CUB | 620117 | 1 | Oviedo | 900203 |
| 49 | 8.18 | Milan Gombala | CZE | 680129 | 1 | Praha | 920216 |
| 50 | 8.18 | Melvin Lister | USA | 770829 | 1 | Fayetteville, Ar | 000205 |
| 51 | 8.17 | Jean-Francois Bonheme | FRA | 490712 | 1 | Göteborg | 740309 |
| 52 | 8.17 | Sergey Layevskiy | URS | 590303 | Q | Kishinyev | 850215 |
| 53 | 8.17 | Jan Leitner | CS | 530914 | 3 | Madrid | 860222 |
| 54 | 8.17 | Kenny Harrison | USA | 650213 | 1 | Oakland City | 860314 |
| 55 | 8.17 | Chris Sanders | USA | 720508 | 1 | Ames, Ia | 920215 |
| 56 | 8.17 | Cheikh Tidiane Touré | SEN | 700125 | 1 | Bordeaux | 980214 |
| 57 | 8.16 | Arnie Robinson | USA | 480407 | 1 | San Diego | 780217 |
| 58 | 8.16 | Yevgeniy Tretyak | RUS | 710718 | 1 | Volgograd | 970221 |
| 59 | 8.16 | Robert Howard | USA | 751126 | 1 | Indianapolis | 970307 |
| 60 | 8.16 | Andrey Bragin | RUS | 78 | 1 | Moskva | 990218 |
| 61 | 8.15 | Gyula Paloczi | HUN | 620913 | 1 | Piraeus | 850303 |
| 62 | 8.15 | Yusuf Alli | NGR | 600728 | 2 | New York, NY | 880226 |
| 63 | 8.15 | Roman Shchurenko | UKR | 760914 | 2 | Brovary | 000208 |
| 64 | 8.14 | Allen Johnson | USA | 710301 | 1 | Johnson City | 930219 |
| 65 | 8.14 | Walter Davis | USA | 790702 | 1 | Lexington, Ky | 010224 |
| 66 | 8.13 | Randy Williams | USA | 530823 | 1 | New York, NY | 730223 |
| 67 | 8.13 | Lutz Dombrowski | GDR | 590625 | 1 | Senftenberg | 800127 |
| 68 | 8.13 | Jens Knipphals | FRG | 580519 | 2 | Sindelfingen | 810207 |
| 69 | 8.13 | Jason Grimes | USA | 590910 | 2 | Johnson City | 820108 |
| 70 | 8.13 | Andre Ester | USA | 650427 | 1 | Oklahoma City | 870314 |
| 71 | 8.13 | Dion Bentley | USA | 710826 | 1 | Gainesville, Fl | 930205 |
| 72 | 8.13 | Angel Hernandez | ESP | 660415 | 2 | Madrid | 950209 |
| 73 | 8.13 | Kofi Amoah Prah | GER | 741020 | 1 | Erfurt | 010202 |
| 74 | 8.13 | Carlos Calado | POR | 751005 | 1 | Lisboa | 010304 |
| 75 | 8.12 | Hans Baumgartner | FRG | 490530 | 1 | Sofia | 710314 |
| 76 | 8.12 | Valeriy Podluzhniy | URS | 520822 | 1 | Moskva | 800216 |
| 77 | 8.12 | Antonio Corgos | ESP | 600310 | 4 | Madrid | 860222 |
| 78 | 8.12 | Christian Thomas | FRG | 650331 | 3 | Liévin, FRA | 870221 |
| 79 | 8.12 | Mike Francis | PUR | 701023 | 1 | Manhattan, Ks | 920306 |
| 80 | 8.12 | Dwight Phillips | USA | 771001 | 1 | Atlanta, Ga | 010303 |
| 81 | 8.11 | Ralph H. Boston | USA | 390509 | 2 | Oakland | 670303 |
| 82 | 8.11 | Theo Hamilton | USA | 520123 | 1 | Detroit | 750314 |
| 83 | 8.11 | Frans Maas | NED | 640713 | 3 | Den Haag | 890219 |
| 84 | 8.11 | Karsten Embach | GDR | 681012 | 1 | Wien | 900221 |
| 85 | 8.11A | Glenn Carroll | AUS | 670615 | 1 | Flagstaff, Az | 900302 |
| 86 | 8.11 | Peter Burge | AUS | 740703 | 1 | Sindelfingen | 010304 |
| 87 | 8.10 | Frank-Peter Külske | GDR | 600708 | 1 | East Berlin | 840125 |
| 88 | 8.10 | Aleksandr Yakovlev | URS | 570908 | 1 | Kiev | 840204 |
| 89 | 8.10 | Paul Emordi | NGR | 651225 | 3 | Princeton, NJ | 860228 |
| 90 | 8.10 | Ray Humphrey | USA | 650831 | 2 | Oklahoma City | 860314 |
| 91 | 8.10 | Norbert Brige | FRA | 640109 | 1 | Liévin | 880124 |
| 92 | 8.10 | Aleksandr Glavatskiy | BLR | 700502 | 1 | Gomel | 940115 |
| 93 | 8.10 | Spyridon Vasdekis | GRE | 700123 | 1 | Piraeus | 970221 |
| 94 | 8.10 | Mickaël Loria | FRA | 730609 | 1 | Liévin | 010218 |
| 95 | 8.09 | Lutz Franke | GDR | 570703 | 1 | East Berlin | 800120 |
| 96 | 8.09 | Mathias Koch | GDR | 620903 | 2 | East Berlin | 840125 |
| 97 | 8.09 | Shamil Abbyasov | URS | 570416 | 1 | Moskva | 850208 |
| 98 | 8.09 | Sergey Zaozerkiy | URS | 640127 | 1 | Klaipeda | 880305 |
| 99 | 8.09 | Robert Zmelik | CZE | 690418 | 2 | Praha | 920216 |
| 100 | 8.09 | Galin Georgiev | BUL | 700327 | 1 | Dobrich | 940305 |
| 101 | 8.09 | Konstantinos Koukodimos | GRE | 690914 | 2 | Bercy, Paris | 940313 |
| 102 | 8.09 | Aleksey Musikhin | RUS | 751108 | 1 | Moskva | 980213 |
| 103 | 8.09 | Nikolay Atanasov | BUL | 741211 | 1 | Sofia | 990121 |
| 104 | 8.09 | Mesut Yavas | TUR | 780414 | 1 | Ames, Ia | 000303 |
| 105 | 8.08 | Ronald Desruelles ¶ | BEL | 550214 | 1 | Sindelfingen | 800302 |
| 106 | 8.08 | Vesco Bradley | USA | 530522 | 2 | New York, NY | 830128 |
| 107 | 8.08 | Oganes Stepanyan | URS | 560101 | 1 | Moskva | 840217 |
| 108 | 8.08 | Dwight Johnson | USA | 641101 | 1 | Murfreesboro | 850126 |
| 109 | 8.08 | Ron Beer | GDR | 650829 | 1 | Jablonec | 870214 |
| 110 | 8.08 | Matt Rose | USA | 670129 | 1 | Gainesville, Fl | 880306 |
| 111 | 8.08 | Jarmo Kärnä | FIN | 580804 | 1 | Solna | 890212 |
| 112 | 8.08 | Vernon George | USA | 641006 | 1 | Johnson City | 900126 |
| 113 | 8.08 | Yevgeniy Semenyuk | UKR | 681211 | 1 | Brovary | 950203 |
| 114 | 8.08 | Erik Nijs | BEL | 730727 | 1 | Gent | 950212 |
| 115 | 8.08 | Sean Robbins | USA | 721009 | 3 | Atlanta, Ga | 970301 |
| 116 | 8.08 | Emmanuel Bangué | FRA | 710721 | 2 | Bordeaux | 980214 |
| 117 | 8.08 | Dimitrios Serelis | GRE | 800505 | 1 | Piraeus | 000219 |
| 118 | 8.07 | Tommy Haynes | USA | 520714 | 1 | Long Beach, Ca | 780107 |
| 119 | 8.07 | Konstantin Semykin | URS | 600526 | 1 | Moskva | 830218 |
| 120 | 8.07 | Vladimir Shabanov | URS | 58 | 1 | Moskva | 830301 |
| 121 | 8.07 | Vadim Kobylyanskiy | URS | 610808 | 1 | Kiev | 860125 |
| 122 | 8.07 | Vladen Kapustyanskiy | RUS | 690704 | 1 | Sankt Peterburg | 930220 |
| 123 | 8.07 | Percy Knox | USA | 691014 | 1 | Johnson City | 950126 |
| 124 | 8.07 | Kader Klouchi | FRA | 690601 | 1 | Piraeus | 980221 |
| 125 | 8.07 | Danila Burkenya | RUS | 780720 | 1 | Moskva | 990115 |
| 126 | 8.07 | Masaki Morinaga | JPN | 720327 | 7 | Maebashi | 990307 |
| 127 | 8.07 | Konstantin Krause | GER | 671008 | 2 | Erfurt | 000202 |
| 128 | 8.06 | Arvidas Sabonis | URS | 541219 | 1 | Vilnius | 800204 |
| 129 | 8.06 | Dezalya Manns | USA | 641109 | 1 | Allston | 870307 |
| 130 | 8.06 | Alan Turner | USA | 690319 | 1 | Indianapolis | 910308 |
| 131 | 8.06 | Aston Morgan ¶ | JAM | 690218 | 1 | Lincoln | 940305 |
| 132 | 8.06 | Darius Pemberton | USA | 750510 | 1 | Baton Rouge | 950225 |
| 133 | 8.06 | Franck Zio | BRK | 710814 | 1 | Liévin | 960204 |
| 134 | 8.06 | Vladimir Malyavin | RUS | 730304 | 4 | Moskva | 000127 |
| 135 | 8.05 | Tönü Lepik | URS | 460501 | 1 | Wien | 700315 |
| 136 | 8.05 | Norm Tate | USA | 420102 | 2 | New York, NY | 730223 |
| 137 | 8.05 | Barrington Williams | GBR | 550911 | 1 | Cosford | 890211 |
| 138 | 8.05 | Stewart Faulkner | GBR | 690219 | 2 | Sevilla | 900227 |
| 139 | 8.05 | Mark Mason | GUY | 690606 | 3 | Johnson City | 910125 |
| 140 | 8.05 | Vladimir Zyuskov | UKR | 810829 | 1 | Brovary | 010210 |
| 141 | 8.05 | Peter Häggström | SWE | 760127 | 2 | Sindelfingen | 010304 |
| 142 | 8.04 | Klaus Beer | GDR | 421114 | 1 | East Berlin | 700215 |
| 143 | 8.04 | Max Klauss | GDR | 470727 | 1 | East Berlin | 720130 |
| 144 | 8.04 | James Moore | USA | 510604 | 1 | Los Angeles | 750118 |
| 145 | 8.04 | Yuriy Kharitonov | URS | 59 | 2 | Moskva | 830218 |
| 146 | 8.04 | Vladimir Ratushkov | URS | 650101 | 1 | Moskva | 880220 |
| 147 | 8.04 | Andre Müller | GER | 701115 | 2 | Dortmund | 910217 |
| 148 | 8.04 | Gelu Luchianov | ROM | 740406 | 1 | Bucuresti | 970209 |
| 149 | 8.04 | Milan Kovar | CS | 720224 | 1 | Praha | 980128 |
| 150 | 8.03 | Leonid Voloshin | UKR | 660330 | 3 | Volgograd | 880210 |
| 151 | 8.03 | Aleksandr Aushev | URS | 600701 | 2 | Klaipeda | 880305 |
| 152 | 8.03 | Vladimir Zubrilin | URS | 630615 | 1 | Kemerovo | 881224 |
| 153 | 8.03 | Raul Fernandez | ESP | 780308 | 2 | Sevilla | 990221 |
| 154 | 8.03 | Kevin Dilworth | USA | 740214 | 2 | Chemnitz | 000218 |
| 155 | 8.02 | Atanas Chochev | BUL | 570117 | 1 | Sofia | 820130 |
| 156 | 8.02 | Vasiliy Sokov # | URS | 680407 | Q | Gomel | 890204 |
| 157 | 8.02 | Gordon McKee | USA | 661012 | 1 | Cosford | 900318 |
| 158 | 8.02 | Joe Laster | USA | 730506 | 1 | Ames, Ia | 970228 |
| 159 | 8.02 | Danijal Jahic | YUG | 790701 | 1 | Piraeus | 990213 |
| 160 | 8.02 | Kenta Bell | USA | 770316 | 2 | Fayetteville, Ar | 000205 |
| 161 | 8.02 | Marcus Thomas | USA | 790322 | 1 | Fayetteville, Ar | 000226 |
| 162 | 8.02 | Younès Moudrik | MAR | 771001 | 2 | Erfurt | 010202 |
| 163 | 8.01 | Al Lanier | USA | 500720 | 2 | Detroit | 730309 |
| 164 | 8.01 | Frank Wartenberg | GDR | 550529 | 1 | East Berlin | 740223 |
| 165 | 8.01 | Jacques Rousseau | FRA | 510310 | 1 | Orleans | 750216 |
| 166 | 8.01 | Grzegorz Cybulski | POL | 511123 | 1 | Warszawa | 770212 |
| 167 | 8.01 | Rolf Bernhard | SUI | 491213 | 1 | Grenoble | 810222 |
| 168 | 8.01 | Andre Kirnes | USA | 610201 | 2 | Murfreesboro | 820123 |
| 169 | 8.01 | John Parker | USA | 640319 | 1 | Princeton, NJ | 840303 |
| 170 | 8.01 | Neil Chance | USA | 730214 | 2 | Johnson City | 930219 |
| 171 | 8.01A | Derek Scurry | USA | 731001 | 1 | Reno | 930227 |
| 172 | 8.01 | Tony Walton | USA | 690603 | 2 | Atlanta, Ga | 940305 |
| 173 | 8.01 | Andrey Ignatov | RUS | 680203 | 3 | Volgograd | 970221 |
| 174 | 8.01 | Chen Jing | CHN | 760310 | 1 | Tianjin | 970223 |
| 175 | 8.01 | Dominick Milner | USA | 760609 | 2 | Baton Rouge, La | 980228 |
| 176 | 8.01 | Joan Lino Martínez | CUB | 780117 | 5 | Liévin | 990221 |
| 177 | 8.00 | Aleksey Pereverzyev | URS | 490720 | 1 | Leningrad | 750219 |
| 178 | 8.00 | David Boyd | USA | 52 | 1 | Salt Lake City | 750221 |
| 179 | 8.00 | Frank Paschek | GDR | 560625 | 1 | Grenoble | 800202 |
| 180 | 8.00 | Nenad Stekic | YUG | 510307 | 1 | Beograd | 810227 |
| 181 | 8.00 | Valeriy Bakunin | URS | 620213 | 3 | Kishinyev | 850216 |
| 182 | 8.00 | Jesus Olivan | ESP | 680709 | 2 | Madrid | 860201 |
| 183 | 8.00 | Oleg Protsenko | URS | 630811 | 1 | Moskva | 861229 |
| 184 | 8.00 | Tyrus Jefferson | USA | 650914 | 2 | Oklahoma City | 880311 |
| 185 | 8.00 | Chen Zunrong | CHN | 620825 | 1 | Beijing | 880325 |
| 186 | 8.00 | Juan Felipe Ortiz | CUB | 640813 | 3 | Oviedo | 890226 |
| 187 | 8.00 | Alfred Dyer | USA | 681212 | 1 | Princeton, NJ | 900106 |
| 188 | 8.00 | Philippe Williams | USA | 690118 | 4 | Indianapolis | 900309 |
| 189 | 8.00 | Gordon Laine # | USA | 580224 | 2 | Stuttgart | 910210 |
| 190 | 8.00 | Daniel Ivanov ¶ | BUL | 651104 | 1 | Sofia | 930206 |
| 191 | 8.00 | Maurice Wignall | JAM | 760417 | 1 | Blacksburg, Va | 990226 |
| 192 | 8.00 | Maurice Lewis | USA | 780114 | 1 | Gainesville, Fl | 000206 |
| 193 | 8.00 | Grzegorz Marciniszyn | POL | 770522 | 1 | Spala | 000212 |
| 194 | 8.00 | Miguel Pate | USA | 790613 | 3 | Gainesville, Fl | 010203 |
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