The differences between the consecutive world-records of shot put and hammer throw tendentiously decrease. Therefore, nowadays it would be worth taking into account the influence of certain environmental factors on the rangeL, such as the latitude and release azimuth direction. Both factors exert influence onLby the centrifugal accelerationacentrigugaland Coriolis accelerationaCoriolisinduced by the Earth’s rotation. The aim of this work is to reveal how the world-record ranking numbers would change, ifacentrigugalandaCoriolisas well as the athletes’ heighthwere taken into account during the validation of the outdoor world records of senior female and male shot-putters and hammer-throwers. Using computer modelling, we reconstruct here the release velocitiesvof shots and hammers and the normalized muscle work of shot-putters achieved at the 20 best consecutive world records. We determined numerous changes of world-record ranking numbers of shot put and hammer throw due to the influence ofacentrigugal,aCoriolisandh. Heighthhas the largest effect on the rangeL,acentrigugalhas a medium influence, andaCoriolispossesses the least impact onL. The physically most correct way would be to consider the release velocityvof the shot/hammer (easily measurable with an ultrasound/laser Doppler gauge) as the real performance of athletes, because it is practically independent of the environmental factors, and thus is a much better ranking measure of world records than the range.