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WELCOME TO edition No. 74 of the Track & Field News World Rankings. Our Rankings made their debut by chronicling… Read More

THE OLYMPIC YEAR, yet again, delivered a dream season to our Men’s Athlete Of The Year, shot putter Ryan Crouser…. Read More

VOTING BY OUR 35-member international panel in this annual exercise — our 62nd year of choosing a Men’s Athlete Of… Read More

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

By clicking on the following by-event links—represented by the No. 1 man in each discipline for 2021—you’ll be taken to… Read More

WEARING THE BLUE of Italy and coming out of the blue was Olympic gold medalist Lamont Marcell Jacobs, who became… Read More

HEAD-TO-HEAD RECORDS among the three Olympic medalists led to a triangle: Andre De Grasse had a losing sequence to Kenny… Read More

OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST Steven Gardiner chose to call it quits after Tokyo and had only a single European meet pre-Games…. Read More

WITH EMMANUEL KORIR & Ferguson Rotich going 1-2 in both the Olympic and DL Final races (and with Korir scoring… Read More

JUST LIKE IN ’19, Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Timothy Cheruiyot hold down the top two spots, but this time it’s the… Read More

ONCE AGAIN the top two contenders split their meetings, Soufiane El Bakkali and Benjamin Kigen each claiming a pair of… Read More

TOKYO WAS THE DEEPEST race of the year and the Florence DL was the fastest, leaving Zürich’s DL Final race… Read More

SORTING THIS ONE OUT was largely a matter of figuring which nations’ Trials races fit where in the skeleton laid… Read More

GRANT HOLLOWAY SUFFERED only a single loss, but that was a big one, coming as it did in the Olympic… Read More

THE ALL-TIME LIST GOT DESTROYED: ’21 produced history’s 4 fastest times and 5 of 6. The chief architect of destruction… Read More

ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER No. 1 for Eliud Kipchoge, this one extending his record total to 6 (nobody else ever won… Read More

THE OLYMPIC FORMCHART went out the window in the heat & humidity of Sapporo, as did fast times. Handling the… Read More

WELCOME TO THE FINAL YEAR of Rankings at the 50K distance. Starting next year for its long walk the World… Read More

WITH A COMBINED 17-17-2 RECORD against the next six rankers, Gianmarco Tamberi was hardly dominant but a shared OG gold… Read More