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A number of new Olympic records were set in various events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Archery

Event	Score	Name	Nation	Date
Women's 72 arrow ranking round	673[a]	Park Sung-Hyun	South Korea (KOR)	2008-08-09
Women's 216 arrow ranking round	2004	Park Sung-Hyun Yun Ok-Hee Joo Hyun-Jung	South Korea (KOR)	2008-08-09

• ^a  This equalled Lina Herasymenko's Olympic record.

Athletics

Men's records

Event	Record	Name	Nation	Date
Men's 100 metres	9.69 s	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	16 August 2008
Men's 200 metres	19.30 s	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	20 August 2008
Men's 5000 metres	12:57.82 min	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	23 August 2008
Men's 10000 metres	27:01.17 min	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	17 August 2008
Men's 4x100 metre relay	37.10 s	Nesta Carter Michael Frater Usain Bolt Asafa Powell	Jamaica	22 August 2008
Men's 4x400 metre relay	2:55.39 min	LaShawn Merritt Angelo Taylor David Neville Jeremy Wariner	United States	23 August 2008
Men's marathon	2:06:32 hr	Samuel Kamau Wanjiru	Kenya	24 August 2008
Men's 50 kilometre walk	3:37:09	Alex Schwazer	Italy	22 August 2008
Men's pole vault	5.96 m	Steven Hooker	Australia	22 August 2008
Men's javelin throw	90.57 m	Andreas Thorkildsen	Norway	23 August 2008

Women's records

Event	Record	Name	Nation	Date
Women's 400 metre hurdles	52.64 s	Melaine Walker	Jamaica	20 August 2008
Women's 3,000 metre steeplechase	8:58.81 min	Gulnara Galkina-Samitova	Russia	17 August 2008
Women's 10,000 metres	29:54.66	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	20 August 2008
Women's 20km walk	1:26:31 hr	Olga Kaniskina	Russia	20 August 2008
Women's triple jump	15.39 m	Françoise Mbango Etone	Cameroon	17 August 2008
Women's pole vault	5.05 m	Yelena Isinbayeva	Russia	18 August 2008
Women's hammer throw	76.34 m	Aksana Miankova	Belarus	20 August 2008

Cycling

Event	Time	Name	Nation	Date
Men's Sprint	9.815	Chris Hoy	Great Britain (GBR)	2008-08-17
Men's Individual pursuit	4:15.031	Bradley Wiggins	Great Britain (GBR)	2008-08-15
Men's Team pursuit	3:53.312	Bradley Wiggins Paul Manning Geraint Thomas Ed Clancy	Great Britain (GBR)	2008-08-18
Women's Sprint	10.963	Victoria Pendleton	Great Britain (GBR)	2008-08-17

Shooting

Men's records

Event		Score	Name	Nation	Date
25 m rapid fire pistol	Qual.	583	Keith Sanderson	United States (USA)	2008-08-16
	Final	780.2	Oleksandr Petriv	Ukraine (UKR)	2008-08-16
Trap	Final	146	David Kostelecký	Czech Republic	2008-08-10
Double trap	Qual.	145	Walton Eller	United States (USA)	2008-08-12
	Final	190	Walton Eller	United States (USA)	2008-08-12
Skeet	Qual.	121	Vincent Hancock	United States (USA)	2008-08-16
	Final	145	Vincent Hancock Tore Brovold	United States (USA)  Norway (NOR)	2008-08-16

Women's records

Event		Score	Name	Nation	Date
50 m rifle three positions	Qual.	589[b]	Du Li	China (CHN)	2008-08-14
	Final	690.3	Du Li	China (CHN)	2008-08-14
10 m air rifle	Qual.	400	Kateřina Emmons	Czech Republic (CZE)	2008-08-09
	Final	503.5	Kateřina Emmons	Czech Republic (CZE)	2008-08-09
25 m pistol	Qual.	590[c]	Otryadyn Gündegmaa	Mongolia (MGL)	2008-08-13
	Final	793.4	Chen Ying	China (CHN)	2008-08-13
10 m air pistol	Qual.	391	Natalia Paderina	Russia (RUS)	2008-08-10
	Final	492.3	Guo Wenjun	China (CHN)	2008-08-10
Trap	Final	91	Satu Mäkelä-Nummela	Finland (FIN)	2008-08-11
Skeet	Qual.	72	Chiara Cainero	Italy (ITA)	2008-08-14
	Final	93	Chiara Cainero Kim Rhode Christine Brinker	Italy (ITA)  United States (USA)  Germany (GER)	2008-08-14

• ^b  This equalled Renata Mauer's Olympic record.
• ^c  This equalled Tao Luna's Olympic record.

Swimming

Due to the use of the LZR Racer, a specialised swimming suit developed by NASA and the Australian Institute of Sport, sixty-five Olympic swimming records were broken. Only two Olympic records remained intact after the Games.

Weightlifting

Men's records

Event		Weight	Name	Nation	Date
85 kg	Snatch	185.0 kg	Andrei Rybakou	Belarus (BLR)	2008-08-15
	Total	394.0 kg	Andrei Rybakou	Belarus (BLR)	2008-08-15
105 kg	Snatch	200.0 kg	Andrei Aramnau	Belarus (BLR)	2008-08-18
	Clean and Jerk	236.0 kg	Andrei Aramnau	Belarus (BLR)	2008-08-18
	Total	436.0 kg	Andrei Aramnau	Belarus (BLR)	2008-08-18

Women's records

Event		Weight	Name	Nation	Date
48 kg	Clean and Jerk	117.0 kg	Chen Xiexia	China (CHN)	2008-08-09
	Total	212.0 kg	Chen Xiexia	China (CHN)	2008-08-09
53 kg	Clean and Jerk	126.0 kg	Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon	Thailand (THA)	2008-08-10
58 kg	Clean and Jerk	138.0 kg	Chen Yanqing	China (CHN)	2008-08-11
	Total	244.0 kg	Chen Yanqing	China (CHN)	2008-08-11
69 kg	Snatch	128.0 kg	Liu Chunhong	China (CHN)	2008-08-13
	Clean and Jerk	158.0 kg	Liu Chunhong	China (CHN)	2008-08-13
	Total	286.0 kg	Liu Chunhong	China (CHN)	2008-08-13
75 kg	Snatch	128.0 kg	Cao Lei	China (CHN)	2008-08-15
	Clean and Jerk	154.0 kg	Cao Lei	China (CHN)	2008-08-15
	Total	282.0 kg	Cao Lei	China (CHN)	2008-08-15
+75 kg	Snatch	140.0 kg	Jang Mi-Ran	South Korea (KOR)	2008-08-16
	Clean and Jerk	186.0 kg	Jang Mi-Ran	South Korea (KOR)	2008-08-16
	Total	326.0 kg	Jang Mi-Ran	South Korea (KOR)	2008-08-16