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WELCOME TO edition No. 73 of the Track & Field News World Rankings. Our Rankings made their debut by chronicling… Read More

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

VOTING BY OUR 36-member international panel in this annual exercise—our 61st year of choosing a Men’s Athlete Of The Year—was… Read More

THE FIRST NORWEGIAN to be named T&FN Men’s Athlete Of The Year, Karsten Warholm is the fourth 400 hurdler to… Read More

By clicking on the following by-event links—represented by the No. 1 man in each discipline for 2019—you’ll be taken to… Read More

CHRISTIAN COLEMAN started his season with a loss—a same-timer to Noah Lyles—but there was no doubt about his earning the… Read More

IT WAS SOMETHING OF A SURPRISE when reigning No. 1 Noah Lyles opened his season with a loss, but to… Read More

TRIVIA QUESTION: Steven Gardiner has just become the second Bahamian ever to rank No. 1 in the 400; who was… Read More

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DECADES, the U.S. showed up as a major player in the 2-lap game. Depthwise, 3… Read More

THERE WAS NO QUESTION about No. 1 here, as Timothy Cheruiyot dominated the event, incurring only a single early-season loss…. Read More

THIS IS ONE EVENT where the WC finish didn’t remotely match the top end of the Rankings. The Doha 1-2-3-4-5… Read More

HERE’S A WEIRD ONE FOR YOU: Selemon Barega grabbed the No. 1 spot despite not winning a race all year…. Read More

AS MIGHT BE EXPECTED in an event that is now so rarely contested, the results of the World Championships race… Read More

IT’S HARD TO BE No. 1 when you’re only 5th in the World Championships, but Orlando Ortega managed it. Of… Read More

WHEN YOU’RE THE AOY, having been No. 1 in your event is pretty much a foregone conclusion. In returning to… Read More

MASS-MEDIA ATTENTION on the 26-miler this year pretty much focused on Eliud Kipchoge’s sub-2:00 pursuit, but you’ll find we gave… Read More

AFTER FINISHING ONLY 3rd in the Japanese Championships, Toshikazu Yamanishi erupted a month later, winning the Asian Championships with a… Read More

JUST AS IN THE 20, the heat and humidity in Doha warped the performances mightily. Make that uber-mightily, as Yusuke… Read More

THE RANKINGS PANEL had to deliberate long and hard on this one, in a year where nobody fit the mold… Read More