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ABOUT SIX YEARS AGO, an op-ed appeared in the New York Times entitled “I Was the Fastest Girl in America,… Read More

By clicking on the following by-event links — represented by the No. 1 woman in each discipline for ’25 —… Read More

By clicking on the following by-event links—represented by the No. 1 man in each discipline for 2025 — you’ll be… Read More

“I DON’T THINK there’s a race out there that’s as tough and gritty as cross-country is,” says Parker Wolfe, who… Read More

THIS IS A LISTING of all the Absolute (indoor and outdoor combined) Records set during calendar 2025. For a listing… Read More

ON THE STRENGTH of No. 1 Rankings in the 100 and 200, with Worlds golds in both events, 24-year-old Melissa… Read More

NOW A 5-TIME presence among the Top 10 in U.S. Athlete Of The Year voting, Rai Benjamin repeats as No…. Read More

WHILE THE MEN’S POY process yielded no fewer than 26 performances which received votes in our 5-4-3-2-1 scoring system, the… Read More

LAST YEAR IN THIS SPOT we wrote, “It’s not uncommon for the AOY to also nab POY honors, which Mondo… Read More

IN THE PAGES THAT FOLLOW you’ll find all kinds of facts & figures relating to each of the 44 individual… Read More

THE HISTORY OF THE long women’s walk is little bit twisty-turny. There was no long race until ’17 when HM… Read More

FUN STUFF! A trio of high-end performers, each with a win and a loss. The amusing part comes in in… Read More

THE PRE-COVID ERA of the 20K in this century was dominated by Russia and China, who earned 17 of the… Read More

AFTER A YEAR on the sidelines (it’s not an Olympic event) the longer of the two standard walks made its… Read More

A NARROW 8-SECOND WIN at the World Championships wasn’t enough to salvage Caio Bonfim’s hopes for a No. 1. Frustratingly,… Read More

VOTING BY OUR 34-member international panel in this annual exercise — our 51st year of choosing a Women’s Athlete Of… Read More

AS ’25 DREW TO A CLOSE, T&FN Women’s Athlete Of The Year voters were presented with one of the strongest… Read More

HE HAS PLAYED THE PART BEFORE to rousing cheers, but being a World Record-breaking vaulter is a role that gets… Read More

VOTING BY OUR 34-member international panel in this annual exercise — our 66th year of choosing a Men’s Athlete Of… Read More

OUR TOP 4 CHOICES all had brilliant seasons. Fortunately, they were relatively easy to sort out as the event’s incredible… Read More