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A 3-PEAT FOR SAM KENDRICKS put him in rare territory as he became only the second American ever to rate… Read More

ONLY ONCE ALL YEAR did Juan Miguel Echevarría finish as low as 3rd, but he picked the wrong time to… Read More

BIG NAMES continue to fall by the wayside as Christian Taylor continues his climb up the TJ’s all-time scoring lists…. Read More

FOR THROWS FANS, at least, the World Championships shot was not only the event of the meet, it was arguably… Read More

BIG MARKS DON’T always translate to big Rankings, particularly in the discus, where finding the right wind can be so… Read More

THE DOMINANT FIGURE in the ball-and-chain department this decade, Paweł Fajdek easily racked up his fourth career No. 1 (to… Read More

CHAMPIONSHIP COMPETITIONS don’t always go according to form, particularly in the javelin. Doha was definitely one of those, and as… Read More

TRIFECTA COMPLETE: with his World Champs win, Niklas Kaul added to previous World Youth (U18) and Junior (U20) golds. At… Read More

OUR 27-MEMBER international voting panel had little trouble in choosing the winning mark from that incredibly close World Championships shot… Read More

TRACK & FIELD NEWS has been choosing a U.S. Men’s Athlete Of The Year since ’59. For the second year… Read More

VOTING BY OUR 36-member international panel in this annual exercise—our 46th year of choosing a Women’s Athlete Of The Year—was… Read More

By clicking on the following by-event links—represented by the No. 1 women’s Ranker in each discipline for ’19—you’ll be taken… Read More

AFTER 2 YEARS OUT OF THE RANKINGS Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce returned with a bang, claiming her first No. 1 since ’15…. Read More

AN UNFORTUNATE TIMETABLE at the World Championships made a 200/400 double impossible, which led to the half-lap’s top runner, Shaunae… Read More

AFTER CLAIMING THE NO. 1 SPOT in both ’16 and ’17, Shaunae Miller-Uibo looked poised to dominate the event for… Read More

AJEE’ WILSON WAS FAVORED coming into Doha, but ended up only 3rd behind Halimah Nakaayi and Raevyn Rogers there. Nonetheless,… Read More

THERE WERE 2 SIFAN HASSANS this year, each of whom ran 3 races. The first one to appear lost all… Read More

WR HOLDER BEATRICE CHEPKOECH was the only steepler to crack the 9:00 barrier in ’19 and she turned the trick… Read More

NOBODY HAD A BLEMISH-FREE season and it came down to choosing either world champ Hellen Obiri or DL Trophy winner… Read More

WHEN THE YEAR BEGAN, Hassan’s experience in the 10K amounted to a 34:28 road race way back in ’12. In… Read More