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FROM THE EDITOR: Coe Sees A Golden Age
A NEW TRACK SEASON is here. Our 78th World Rankings issue lies before you, and chronicles a thrilling 2025 now… Read More
ON YOUR MARKS — January
MAJOR SIGNING NEWS: prep 400 phenom Quincy Wilson surprised many by committing to Maryland… Olympic gold medalist Athing Mu-Nikolayeva has… Read More
LANDMARKS — January
Died: Anatoliy Bondarchuk, 85 On December 23, in Kamloops, British Columbia. The ’72 Olympic champion in the hammer throw for… Read More
STATUS QUO — January
THE LATEST in the aches, pains & eligibility departments: Marathoner Emma Bates has been diagnosed with hemochromatosis, a disorder where… Read More
FOR THE RECORD — January
New Records reported since the November issue: W = World; A = American; C = Collegiate; J = Junior; i… Read More
The 2025 T&FN World Rankings Explained
WELCOME TO edition No. 78 of the Track & Field News World Rankings. Our Rankings made their debut by chronicling… Read More
Analyzing The 2025 T&FN Rankings
IN THE PAGES THAT FOLLOW you’ll find all kinds of facts & figures relating to each of the 44 individual… Read More
2025 T&FN Men’s Athlete Of The Year — Mondo Duplantis
HE HAS PLAYED THE PART BEFORE to rousing cheers, but being a World Record-breaking vaulter is a role that gets… Read More
2025 World Men’s Top 10 Voting
VOTING BY OUR 34-member international panel in this annual exercise — our 66th year of choosing a Men’s Athlete Of… Read More
2025 T&FN Men’s World/U.S. Rankings
By clicking on the following by-event links—represented by the No. 1 man in each discipline for 2025 — you’ll be… Read More
2025 Men’s 100 World Rankings
JAMAICA IS BACK! For the first time since Usain Bolt’s fifth and final No. 1 in ’16, the islanders have… Read More
2025 Men’s 200 World Rankings
TITLE No. 5 MOVED Noah Lyles into a tie with Michael Johnson for the runner-up position in career No. 1s…. Read More
2025 Men’s 400 World Rankings
A WC 7th-PLACER moving into the No. 1 Rankings spot? Unusual, to be sure, but we find ourselves with Jacory… Read More
2025 Men’s 800 World Rankings
DAVID RUDISHA’S WR of 1:40.91 is now 13 years old, but at the rate which fast times piled up this… Read More
2025 Men’s 1500 World Rankings
AND JUST LIKE THAT, a pair of Jakob Ingebrigtsen streaks came to an end. Since he’s barely 25, it’s not… Read More
2025 Men’s Steeplechase World Rankings
A STRANGE FEATURE of this year’s splash-and-dash was the preponderance of losses. The top 5: 1. Soufiane El Bakkali 2–2;… Read More
2025 Men’s 5000 World Rankings
FOR THE FIRST TIME since ’85 — think Doug Padilla, Sydney Maree & Bruce Bickford — the U.S. claims a… Read More
