2023 Men’s 35K Walk World Rankings
LOTS OF FAMILIAR FACES here as the shortening of the long walk has facilitated more doubling, with the result that… Read More
January 2024
2023 World Men’s Top 10 Voting
VOTING BY OUR 32-member international panel in this annual exercise — our 64th year of choosing a Men’s Athlete Of… Read More
2023 Women’s Javelin World Rankings
JAPAN’S FIRST-EVER No. 1 here came by her rating in convincing fashion, winning the essential WC/DLF combo and having by… Read More
2023 Women’s Hammer World Rankings
IF THE RANKINGS WERE all about marks Brooke Andersen would have repeated as No. 1. But the biggest factor is… Read More
2023 Women’s Pole Vault World Rankings
THE WC FINAL ended up as a tie between Katie Moon and Nina Kennedy, but there was no difficulty in… Read More
2023 Women’s 10,000 World Rankings
2 FAST JUNE RACES put 3 times into the all-time world top 10. First came the FBK Games in Hengelo,… Read More
2023 Women’s Steeplechase World Rankings
THE TOP END of the Rankings laid itself out perfectly logically, Winfred Yavi, Beatrice Chepkoech & Faith Cherotich went 1-2-3… Read More
2023 Women’s 5000 World Rankings
LONG A MILE FIXTURE, Faith Kipyegon emerged as a 5000 force to be reckoned with this year, running her first… Read More
2023 Women’s 800 World Rankings
THE TOP 3 OF ’22 — Athing Mu, Mary Moraa & Keely Hodgkinson — staged a couple of great battles… Read More
2023 Women’s 200 World Rankings
FLOJO’S LEGENDARY 21.34 WR got its closest scare yet with Shericka Jackson’s 21.41 to win WC gold. The speedy Jamaican… Read More
2023 Women’s Heptathlon World Rankings
NOT SINCE JJK WON the last of her 6 titles had an American finished No. 1. Anna Hall’s claiming of… Read More
2023 Women’s 100 World Rankings
JAMAICA’S GRIP ON THE TOP END was finally broken after 10 straight leaderships (and 1-2-3s in ’21 & ’22). Before… Read More
2023 Women’s Discus World Rankings
LAST YEAR VALARIE ALLMAN became the first American woman to earn a pair of No. 1s here. Now she’s the… Read More
2023 Women’s Triple Jump World Rankings
ALTHOUGH ONE MEMBER of our Rankings Panel characterized Yulimar Rojas’s ’23 as “not a vintage season,” it was one that… Read More
2023 Women’s Long Jump World Rankings
RIDING A STREAK OF 4 straight No. 1s, Malaika Mihambo looked well placed to make a run at a record-tying… Read More
2023 Women’s 400 Hurdles World Rankings
LONG-HURDLE FANS were disappointed when there was no Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone vs. Femke Bol matchup. The American WR holder skipped the… Read More
2023 Women’s 1500 World Rankings
THE EVENT’S ALL-TIME RANKING STATS are now dominated by AOY Faith Kipyegon, who leads Maryam Jamal by 10 points and… Read More
2023 Men’s Discus World Rankings
DECISIONS DON’T COME MUCH CLOSER than this one. Defending No. 1 Kristjan Čeh dominated the top end of the performances… Read More
2023 Men’s Hammer World Rankings
TURNOVER HAS BEEN SLOW at the top of the hammer, just 3 different men being No. 1 in the last… Read More
2023 Men’s 110 Hurdles World Rankings
LAST YEAR WE NOTED that Grant Holloway ended a long U.S. drought, becoming the first American to be No. 1… Read More
