Where have Britain's athletics world-record holders gone?
2: Romania, Cuba 1: Britain, Belarus, Portugal, Uganda, Sweden, Denmark, Canada, South Africa, Qatar, Ecuador, Japan, Australia, Turkey, Bahrain, Ukraine, Germany The first thing to note is the sheer globalisation of the sport in recent decades. Where the same few nations tend to dominate at the top of medal tables, there are a greater number of nations producing global medal-standard athletes than ever before. Two of the most recent indoor world records (both from triple jump) came from Venezuela and Burkina Faso - two countries with almost no athletics heritage whatsoever. Greater competiti...