If we were guaranteed one WR was clean, which one would it be

Men's pole vault.

There's no reason for me to believe that you MUST be doped to hold that record.

With a realistic combination of speed, strength, and coordination, and a lifetime of training under the watchful eye of experts, great results could be expected.

I believe that there are probably a lot of people on this planet who could go over 20' if they started in the event young enough (I'm thinking of all the guys who compete at the highest levels of gymnastics). And there are virtually untapped parts of the world for this event, so if you brought pole vaulting to the masses (in countries like Nigeria, for example), you would find a lot of great vaulters.

Justin Jefferson… man is elite without freakish athleticism. Just catches everything and gets open with quick moves.

I thought about the pole Vault but the performance is so good... Bubka was already such a dominant athlete and Duplantis goes much higher. It's true he doesn't look superhuman but still...

Sotomayor HJ 2.45 1993

who? track and field please.

what makes you think it's a clean WR?

Triple jump. Event few people do and the guy who holds it has to be one of the last guys(yeah I know it doesn't mean much) that you would think of being a doper from a looks and personality.

All sprints have the steroid taint. All distance has EPO(sure everyone in the world went from being a 13:10 to 12:50 in 2 years because of training...), Weights again steroids.

Yes - something that not too many people do and hasn't been optimized yet. Like 50 km WR (men or women).

Beer mile

I said pole vault above, but I think triple and long jump are good offerings as well.

Do I believe that Mike Powell (or before him Bob Beamon) HAD to be on drugs to do what they did? No, I don't have to believe that.

The 100km WR looks so weak that it would be my choice if it s on the list.

not anymore lol

long jump has so much correlation with speed and 100m that I wouldn't consider 1sec it is clean.

High jump seems a good candidate. Triple jump not so much in my opinion.

It's all conjecture, but I never looked at Mike Powell and thought, "Well, there's an obvious doper."

Powell ran a bunch of 100s in college. He would have been a very good high schooler. He was fast but not absurd. Maybe he took the drugs later and that is why he jumped a half a meter farther but it is also possible to image a natural person with that type of speed.

With the jumps there is that efficiency component which it isn't clear how much steroids helps with. That being said they still have a big power component and we know how much roids help with that. I don't think I would want to bet on any record not being well into the grey zones/doped. But I am taking the jumps/pv if I have too...

A world record from the good old doping times of the last century (when we'd cover up our positive tests) that still stands... can it be any more obvious?

Men’s 800 because I truly believe Rudisha was clean. That record will also never, and I mean NEVER, be broken. 800, for men at least, is such a weird blend of raw speed, speed endurance, and pain tolerance, that there is no one individual PED that would truly help you. For women, testosterone and steroids clearly has an impact at this distance as the increased muscle power benefits women. The increased muscle power for men means more lactate, and subsequently more pain, so I think it is really hard to dope the event.

Silly me, I offered a response to the OP and shared an opinion. I think the most likely clean records could be pole vault and long jump.

I think there is NO chance it is a running event of any length because drugs so clearly help in all of those, from 100 meters to the marathon.

Instead of just knocking me, perhaps offer an opinion of your own. And if your opinion is that every record is held by a doper, why bother to respond at all?