January 2022

THE FIRST FINAL in Sifan Hassan’s unparalleled Olympic triple was the 5000, which she won convincingly. When she followed up… Read More

5 DAYS AFTER SHE HAD WON the Olympic 5000 and just a day after she had added 1500 bronze, Sifan… Read More

THE FIRST PUERTO RICAN ever to earn a No. 1 in any event, man or woman, the Kentucky alum was… Read More

AND NOW THE SUB-52 BARRIER IS HISTORY. Sydney McLaughlin’s season was brief, but oh-so-productive. The Olympic Trials saw her run… Read More

SHE WAS ONLY No. 24 on the yearly world list, but there is no question that Peres Jepchirchir deserved the… Read More

NOT SURPRISINGLY, the Olympic order provided by the backbone in an event with few significant international meets outside the Games…. Read More

ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER No. 1 for Mariya Lasitskene. This year’s is her sixth, tying her with Stefka Kostadinova. They trail… Read More

THIS WAS A SCENE dominated by veterans: the first 3 were all 30 by year’s end, and No. 4 was… Read More

FOR THE THIRD YEAR IN A ROW the top spot went to Malaika Mihambo. That made her only the third… Read More

WITH A SEASON SO GOOD that she ended up just a point behind the winner in AOY voting, Yulimar Rojas… Read More

SHE SKIPPED THE INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT, but undefeated Lijiao Gong was nonetheless a clear No. 1, what with the Olympic gold… Read More

WITH WINS AT BOTH the Olympic Games and DL Final Valarie Allman was a clear No. 1, the first American… Read More

WITH HER record-tying 13th straight appearance in the Top 10, Anita Włodarczyk breaks her tie atop the points lead, now… Read More

THIS WAS A TOUGH ONE: Shiying Lu won in Tokyo, but the Chinese star’s other 7 meets were all at… Read More

AFTER SLIPPING TO No. 2 in ’19 after 3 straight years as No. 1, Nafi Thiam returned to the top… Read More

WELCOME TO edition No. 74 of the Track & Field News World Rankings. Our Rankings made their debut by chronicling… Read More

By clicking on the following by-event links—represented by the No. 1 man in each discipline for 2021—you’ll be taken to… Read More

WEARING THE BLUE of Italy and coming out of the blue was Olympic gold medalist Lamont Marcell Jacobs, who became… Read More

HEAD-TO-HEAD RECORDS among the three Olympic medalists led to a triangle: Andre De Grasse had a losing sequence to Kenny… Read More

OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST Steven Gardiner chose to call it quits after Tokyo and had only a single European meet pre-Games…. Read More