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The world rankings are updated each Wednesday. As of 26 December 2023, the number one ranked male athlete is Armand Duplantis with 1576 points, [1] and the number one ranked female athlete is Faith Kipyegon with 1584 points. [2]
Athlete & Nat. Perf. Location Date World Record Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) 10.49: Indianapolis, United States: 16 July 1988 Championship Record Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) 10.67: Eugene, United States: 17 July 2022 2023 World Leading Shericka Jackson (JAM) 10.65: Kingston, Jamaica: 7 July 2023 African Record Marie-Josée Ta Lou (CIV) 10.72
The top three athletes in each event win gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively. A one-off edition of the championships was also held the same year at the 1980 Summer Olympics to include the IAAF -approved international women's events in 400 metres hurdles and 3000 metres which were not added to the Olympic athletics programme that year ...
The Russian-born Sharapova annually was one of the best-paid female athletes in the world and ranks fourth in all-time women's tennis earnings (over $38 million) while being a big hit via ...
Athlete Event Date Gold: Femke Bol: Women's 400 metres hurdles: 24 August 2023 Gold: Eveline Saalberg Lieke Klaver Cathelijn Peeters Femke Bol Lisanne de Witte* Women's 4 × 400 metres relay: 27 August 2023 Silver: Sifan Hassan: Women's 5000 metres: 26 August 2023 Bronze: Anouk Vetter: Women's heptathlon: 20 August 2023 Bronze: Sifan Hassan ...
After winning the 2020 Olympics and 2022 World Championships, Athing Mu started looking for new horizons to conquer. Hurdler Sydney McLaughlin , also training under Bobby Kersee , staked out the 400 metres , so even though Mu was an NCAA Champion, sub-50 performer in that event, Mu focused her season efforts on the longer 1500 metres , only ...
Bookending her legendary comeback from a two-year break, seven-time Olympic medalist Simone Biles is the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year for 2023.. The 26-year-old earned the title for ...
In the first round, former world record holder Kendra Harrison ran 12.24, equalling her own #4 performance in history, leaving her with three of the top 5 races ever. Even her 12.33 in the semi-finals had only been beaten by ten women ever, but four of them made the finals along with her: Tobi Amusan, the defending champion who set the world record in the semi-final round at the previous ...