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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

EVEN THOUGH IT MIGHT SEEM that Mondo Duplantis has been atop the vault world for years now, this year’s No…. Read More

UNDERSCORING THE SO-CLOSE nature of the margin between Miltiádis Tentóglou and Juan Miguel Echevarría, the Olympic title was decided on… Read More

CONSPICUOUS BY HIS ABSENCE: Christian Taylor, after a ruptured Achilles. For the first time since ’10 his name doesn’t appear,… Read More

NEEDLESS TO SAY, the top spot went to one Ryan Crouser, whose undefeated AOY season was one of the greatest… Read More

REIGNING NO. 1 DANIEL STÅHL lost 2 of his first 3 meets (to fellow Swede Simon Pettersson) before regaining his… Read More

POLAND NOT ONLY provided the winner for the sixth time in a row but also went 1-2 for the fourth… Read More

LIST LEADER JOHANNES VETTER picked a bad day at the office, his only loss coming at the Olympics (on a… Read More

DAMIAN WARNER DIDN’T JUST join the hyper-elite 9000-point club — as member No. 4 — he also came within only… Read More

JUST AS THEY SHARED all the No. 1 votes in Athlete Of The Year voting, Karsten Warholm and Ryan Crouser… Read More

AS THE WORLD AOY, Ryan Crouser was obviously the top American as well. And while the shot put king was… Read More

By clicking on the following by-event links — represented by the No. 1 women’s Ranker in each discipline for ’21… Read More

HER QUEST TO AGAIN CONQUER the sprint world was anything but a sure thing for Elaine Thompson-Herah. Still troubled by… Read More

VOTING BY OUR 35-member international panel in this annual exercise—our 47th year of choosing a Women’s Athlete Of The Year—was… Read More

IT’S SMALL WONDER THAT JAMAICA won the Olympic 4×1 gold, what with its leading stars going 1-2-3 in the 100… Read More

AS IN THE 100, Elaine Thompson-Herah was dominant in Tokyo, but the rest of her season here was shaky. She… Read More

CONTINUING HER RUN of high Rankings finishes, Shaunae Miller-Uibo shows up in the Top 10 for the sixth straight time,… Read More

WHEN THE YEAR BEGAN, Athing Mu was a promising Texas A&M frosh with a lifetime best of 2:01.17. Incredibly, she… Read More

AFTER A LOSS in her season-opening race in Florence, Faith Kipyegon ran off a half-dozen victories to finish off her… Read More