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WELCOME TO edition No. 76 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 44 individual… Read More

“I’M REALLY HAPPY,” Ryan Crouser declared after the DL Final, when his election through the vote of our expert international… Read More

VOTING BY OUR 32-member international panel in this annual exercise — our 64th year of choosing a Men’s Athlete Of… Read More

By clicking on the following by-event links—represented by the No. 1 man in each discipline for 2023 — you’ll be… Read More

NOAH LYLES WON THE WC, but was far from a slam-dunk choice for No. 1 as he returned to the… Read More

UNDEFEATED NOAH LYLES was the obvious choice for the top spot, claiming his fourth No.1 ever (only legends Usain Bolt… Read More

THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOBODY with a flawless case for the preeminent position: surprise world champ Antonio Watson didn’t compete in… Read More

MARCO AROP SCORED a tight 0.29 victory over Emmanuel Wanyonyi at the WC, but the Kenyan sewed up No. 1… Read More

FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW Jakob Ingebrigtsen lost the year’s biggest race to a Briton, but was nonetheless… Read More

IN A 5-RACE SEASON that mirrored his ’22 leadership, the undefeated Soufiane El Bakkali again won 4 DL titles and… Read More

THE BIGGEST PROBLEM was figuring out where to place Jakob Ingebrigtsen. To be sure, he was the world champion, but… Read More

MAKING IT 4 No. 1s in the last 5 Rankings, Joshua Cheptegei parlayed his WC gold into the perfect vehicle… Read More

LAST YEAR WE NOTED that Grant Holloway ended a long U.S. drought, becoming the first American to be No. 1… Read More

AFTER INJURIES HELD HIM to No. 5 in ’22, Karsten Warholm got back on track and picked off his fourth… Read More