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SINCE HE WAS VOTED the U.S. Athlete Of The Year, it’s no surprise to find world champ Rai Benjamin atop… Read More

OUR TOP 4 CHOICES all had brilliant seasons. Fortunately, they were relatively easy to sort out as the event’s incredible… Read More

A NARROW 8-SECOND WIN at the World Championships wasn’t enough to salvage Caio Bonfim’s hopes for a No. 1. Frustratingly,… Read More

AFTER A YEAR on the sidelines (it’s not an Olympic event) the longer of the two standard walks made its… Read More

HE CAME UP ONE MEET SHY of a perfect season, but that wasn’t enough to keep Sang-hyeok Woo out of… Read More

DIEHARD FANS of Dutch Warmerdam and/or Sergey Bubka might beg to differ but at this point one strongly suspects that… Read More

THE YOUNGEST OF OUR LJ rankers, Mattia Furlani was great in the big meets, winning golds at both the World… Read More

CUBAN ALUMNI didn’t match their 1-2-3 of ’24, but Pedro Pichardo (now Portugal) and Andy Díaz (now Italy) did score… Read More

RYAN CROUSER PROVED that he’s still the best shot putter on the planet. He also rated only No. 9 on… Read More

THE COMETHROUGH performance of the year was unleashed by Daniel Ståhl in winning WC gold. That wasn’t the farthest throw… Read More

LAST YEAR, Ethan Katzberg became the first Canadian ever to be honored with the event’s top spot; this year he… Read More

THE SPEAR HAS LONG BEEN RECOGNIZED as one of the toughest events in which to display a high level of… Read More

WITH NONE OF THE CONTENDERS going undefeated, the task became juggling the qualities of each’s wins vs. losses. WC fave… Read More

LAST YEAR IN THIS SPOT we wrote, “It’s not uncommon for the AOY to also nab POY honors, which Mondo… Read More

NOW A 5-TIME presence among the Top 10 in U.S. Athlete Of The Year voting, Rai Benjamin repeats as No…. Read More

AS ’25 DREW TO A CLOSE, T&FN Women’s Athlete Of The Year voters were presented with one of the strongest… Read More

VOTING BY OUR 34-member international panel in this annual exercise — our 51st year of choosing a Women’s Athlete Of… Read More

By clicking on the following by-event links — represented by the No. 1 woman in each discipline for ’25 —… Read More

OBVIOUSLY THE PEAK POSITION belonged to Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, who moved up 2 spots from last year. The undefeated world champ… Read More

NOBODY HAS EVER GONE 1-2-3-4 before (indeed, there had been only a single 1-2-3, that by East Germany in ’84)… Read More