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THE TOUGHEST CHOICE OF THE YEAR? May well have been, with Quincy Hall oh-so-narrowly edging Matthew Hudson-Smith for the top… Read More

DAVID RUDISHA’S WORLD RECORD is a dozen years old now, but ’24 brought its severest threat yet, Emmanuel Wanyonyi missing… Read More

FOR THE THIRD YEAR IN A ROW Jakob Ingebrigtsen lost the major championship but rates No. 1 anyway… Uncharacteristically, he… Read More

SOUFIANE EL BAKKALI is No. 1 for the fifth time, but his invulnerability was dented by Amos Serem’s run in… Read More

ALMOST AS TOUGH as the choice for No. 1 man in the 400, the 5000 required a lot of debate,… Read More

ASIDE FROM THE EUROS, all the considered races essentially served as qualifiers or test runs leading up to the Olympics…. Read More

NOT SINCE RENALDO NEHEMIAH (1979–81) had anyone won 4 in a row. With his quartet Grant Holloway has a shot… Read More

RAI BENJAMIN was certainly glad to see the termination of one record he owned. That was his streak of 4… Read More

ALL THE CONTENDERS for top-end consideration followed the same pattern: a quick win and a not-so-quick backup. Benson Kipruto had… Read More

AS USUAL, there’s not a ton of head-to-head to go on, so the OG provides a pretty solid spine. Daniel… Read More

THOSE WHO LIKE JUMPOFFS got their wish in Paris, but in the final analysis Hamish Kerr liked things better than… Read More

ALL-MONDO-ALL-THE-TIME has been pretty much the tale of the vault since the pandemic year of ’20. And as this year’s… Read More

ALREADY THE FIRST EUROPEAN ever to earn the top spot 3 years in a row, Miltiádis Tentóglou ran that streak… Read More

A NEW YEAR, a new leader as the last 5 editions have produced a different No. 1 each time: Christian… Read More

RYAN CROUSER CONTINUES to pound out long throw after long throw. His 11-meet ’24 tally breaks out this way: 75-footers,… Read More

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. Well almost. Virgilijus Alekna won Olympic gold (2, in fact), but Mykolas came up just 2… Read More

LAST YEAR ETHAN KATZBERG became the first Canadian ever to make the Rankings, jumping all the way up to No…. Read More

THIS WAS A FUN ONE. What do you do with an Olympic gold medalist who had only one other meet,… Read More

MISSING FROM THE TOP END is Damian Warner, after 8 straight years as No. 1 (once), No. 2 (5 times)… Read More

IT’S NOT UNCOMMON for the AOY to also nab POY honors, which Mondo Duplantis did. But while it’s not unheard-of,… Read More