January 2025

THE EVENT’S ENTIRE PICTURE was turned topsy-turvy in early spring when WR holder Yulimar Rojas was stricken with a serious… Read More

WELCOME TO edition No. 77 of the Track & Field News World Rankings. Our Rankings made their debut by chronicling… Read More

THE WINNERS OF THE LAST 5 No. 1s were strong contenders but ended up as No. 2 (Malaika Mihambo, winner… Read More

2:09:56 SAYS IT ALL. Ruth Chepngetich’s extraordinary WR was offset by her 9th in London, but the sub-2:10 is clearly… Read More

ONE OF THE EVENT’S PIONEERS was multiple-WR-setting Australian Emma George, who was the first 3-time No. 1 (1996–98). And that… Read More

LOTS OF FAMILIAR faces in this one: Yaroslava Mahuchikh and Iryna Gerashchenko for the fifth year in a row, Nicola… Read More

ABSOLUTELY NO MYSTERY HERE. With another double-WR year keying her selection as Athlete Of The Year, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone earned her… Read More

WITH 3 SOLID CONTENDERS, this one required some bouncing around in analyses… MASAI RUSSELL won the Olympic gold, moved to… Read More

WHEN BEATRICE CHEBET lined up for the Pre Classic, it was to be for just the third track 10K of… Read More

BEATRICE CHEBET HAD A BRILLIANT season, winning Oly golds at both 5000 and 10,000 meters. Her double started with a… Read More

WITH A 9TH-PLACE finish the Pre Classic wasn’t a promising start to Winfred Yavi’s season. But as it turned out,… Read More

KEELY HODGKINSON’S OLYMPIC SEASON was short and sweet at 5 meets. But she won all 5 of them, producing the… Read More

UNDEFEATED SINCE July of ’23, Marileidy Paulino was a no-question No. 1 for the second year in a row. Her… Read More

GABBY THOMAS DOMINATED the yearly list, producing the year’s 3 fastest times and 5 of the 7 sub-21.90 performances. Her… Read More

FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2010, none of Jamaica’s 100-meter superstars of the millennium are rated. No Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, no… Read More

IT WAS ANOTHER BRILLIANT YEAR for Faith Kipyegon, who won Olympic gold, went undefeated, lowered her own World Record and… Read More

AS AN ACCOMPLISHED juggler*, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has no trouble keeping three balls in the air. She also effortlessly juggled events,… Read More

AS USUAL, there’s not a ton of head-to-head to go on, so the OG provides a pretty solid spine. Daniel… Read More

“IT DOESN’T FEEL REAL” is how Mondo Duplantis describes the feeling of soaring over a World Record. Then he lands,… Read More

MISSING FROM THE TOP END is Damian Warner, after 8 straight years as No. 1 (once), No. 2 (5 times)… Read More