2018 Men’s Discus World Rankings
LAST YEAR Fedrick Dacres became the first Jamaican ever to earn a Top 10 spot in the discus, reaching No…. Read More
December 2018
2018 Men’s Marathon World Rankings
TICKING OFF THE BOXES: yearly leader, check; World Record, check; undefeated, check; win 2 (it’s basically impossible to win 3)… Read More
2018 Men’s Steeplechase World Rankings
IN HIS SEVENTH appearance in the Top 10, Conseslus Kipruto claimed his fourth No. 1 and third in a row…. Read More
2018 Men’s 400 World Rankings
THE RANKINGS TEAM went back and forth on this one as many of the mainstream characters had limited seasons. The… Read More
2018 Men’s 10,000 World Rankings
AS OUR SPORT MOVES towards tighter presentation, the 10K has all but disappeared from the European Circuit. Indeed, not a… Read More
2018 Men’s 20K Walk World Rankings
ONLY 19 AT THE TIME, Koki Ikeda made his first race outside of Japan a successful one when he beat… Read More
2018 Men’s 5000 World Rankings
THE FIRST SUB-12:50 race since Paris ’12 (and first sub-12:45 since Paris ’05) proved to be the key to unlocking… Read More
2018 Men’s High Jump World Rankings
IF YOUR SEASON is going to end prematurely, as Mutaz Barshim’s did on July 02, you might as well go… Read More
2018 Men’s Pole Vault World Rankings
NO. 1 WAS EASY. Then things got hard. Sam Kendricks repeated at the top of the heap, the first American… Read More
2018 Men’s Long Jump World Rankings
STILL A TEENAGER when he did his jumping this year, Juan Miguel Echevarría was a narrow choice for No. 1… Read More
2018 Men’s Decathlon World Rankings
WHAT DO YOU GET when you combine marks of 10.55, 25-7¼ (7.80), 52-6 (16.00), 6-8¾ (2.05), 48.42, 13.75, 165-10 (50.54),… Read More
2018 Men’s 800 World Rankings
SECOND-YEAR PRO Emmanuel Korir was an easy choice for the top spot, losing only one race and winning all 5… Read More
2018 Men’s Triple Jump World Rankings
CHRISTIAN TAYLOR & Pedro Pablo Pichardo have waged some great wars over the last half-dozen seasons. This year was close… Read More
2018 Men’s 100 World Rankings
THIS WAS A TOUGH ONE! Christian Coleman or Ronnie Baker? Our selectors really were torn after the year’s two fastest… Read More
2018 Men’s 200 World Rankings
U.S. ATHLETE OF THE YEAR Noah Lyles put up some historic 200 numbers in 2018. His 5-race half-lap sequence went… Read More
Men’s Performance Of The Year
OUR 23-MEMBER international voting panel had little trouble in choosing a marathon as the Men’s Performance Of The Year for… Read More
CALENDAR — December
U.S. Indoor Invitationals January 11–12 Green Invitational; Lexington, Kentucky Nelson Invitational; College Station, Texas Orange & Purple Elite, Clemson, South… Read More
World Men’s Athlete Of The Year — Eliud Kipchoge
Voting by our 31-member international panel in this annual exercise—our 60th year of choosing a Men’s Athlete Of The Year—was… Read More
Women’s Performance Of The Year
OUR 24-MEMBER international voting panel had no trouble in finding its 2018 winner as Women’s Performance Of The Year. Beatrice… Read More
World Women’s Athlete Of The Year — Caster Semenya
Voting by our 31-member international panel in this annual exercise—our 45th year of choosing a Women’s Athlete Of The Year—was… Read More
