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WELCOME TO edition No. 78 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

HE HAS PLAYED THE PART BEFORE to rousing cheers, but being a World Record-breaking vaulter is a role that gets… Read More

VOTING BY OUR 34-member international panel in this annual exercise — our 66th 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 2025 — you’ll be… Read More

JAMAICA IS BACK! For the first time since Usain Bolt’s fifth and final No. 1 in ’16, the islanders have… Read More

TITLE No. 5 MOVED Noah Lyles into a tie with Michael Johnson for the runner-up position in career No. 1s…. Read More

A WC 7th-PLACER moving into the No. 1 Rankings spot? Unusual, to be sure, but we find ourselves with Jacory… Read More

DAVID RUDISHA’S WR of 1:40.91 is now 13 years old, but at the rate which fast times piled up this… Read More

AND JUST LIKE THAT, a pair of Jakob Ingebrigtsen streaks came to an end. Since he’s barely 25, it’s not… Read More

A STRANGE FEATURE of this year’s splash-and-dash was the preponderance of losses. The top 5: 1. Soufiane El Bakkali 2–2;… Read More

FOR THE FIRST TIME since ’85 — think Doug Padilla, Sydney Maree & Bruce Bickford — the U.S. claims a… Read More

WITH INTERNATIONAL 10s remaining scarce, this year’s ordering predictably came largely down to separating how people ran in either the… Read More

ONE TYPICALLY ANTICIPATES that the DL Final (in this case, in Zürich) and the WC/OG will play an outsized role… Read More