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2019 IAAF World Rankings
The 2019 World Athletics Rankings document the best performing athletes in the sport of athletics, per the World Athletics individual athlete ranking system. It was the first year that the IAAF used the system. Individual athletes are assigned a points score best on an average of their best recent competition performances. The performance scoring is primarily based on the time or mark of the athlete, plus additional points for their placing within the competition, and some minor modifications based on the conditions. The world rankings are updated each Wednesday. As of 31 March 2020, the number one ranked male athlete is Armand Duplantis with 1515 points, and the number one ranked female athlete is Sifan Hassan with 1528 points. Overall rankings (top 10) Event rankings (top 10) IAAF World Rankings, as of 17 September 2019. 100 metres ;Men ;Women 20 km racewalking ;Men ;Women 50 km racewalking ;Men ;Women References ;IAAF World RankingsWorld Rankings ...
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World Athletics
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation and International Association of Athletics Federations and formerly abbreviated as the IAAF, is the international sports governing body, governing body for the sport of athletics, covering track and field, cross country running, road running, racewalking, race walking, mountain running, and ultramarathon, ultra running. Included in its charge is the standardization of rules and regulations for the sports, certification of athletic facilities, recognition and management of list of world records in athletics, world records, and the organisation and sanctioning of athletics competitions, including the World Athletics Championships. The organisation's president is Sebastian Coe of the United Kingdom, who was elected to the four-year position in 2015 and re-elected in 2019 for a second four-year term, and then again in 2023 for a third four-year term. History The process to found World Athletics began in S ...
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Christian Taylor (athlete)
Christian Taylor (born June 18, 1990) is a retired American track and field athlete who competed in the triple jump and has a personal record of , which ranks 2nd on the Triple jump#Men (outdoor), all-time list. He was the triple jump champion and long jump bronze medalist at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics. He established himself as a top level triple jumper at the University of Florida, where he won back-to-back NCAA Indoor titles and then consecutive NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship, NCAA Outdoor Championship titles in 2010 and 2011. Taylor won his first USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, USA Outdoor national title in 2011. He followed his national title with a win in the triple jump at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, 2011 World Championships, upsetting the field with the tenth best jump in history. He was a member of the 2012 United States Olympic team and won the gold medal in the triple jump at the 2012 Summer Olympics in Lo ...
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Shaunae Miller-Uibo
Shaunae Miller-Uibo (born 15 April 1994) is a Bahamian track and field sprinter who competes in the 200 and 400 metres. She is a two-time Olympic champion after winning the women's 400 metres at the 2016 Rio Olympics and again at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. At the World Athletics Championships, Miller-Uibo won silver medals in the 400 m in 2015 and 2019, and a bronze at the 200 m in 2017 when she also placed fourth at her longer distance. In 2022, she won her first world outdoor and indoor 400 m titles. She holds North American records in the 400 m both outdoors and indoors, set in October 2019 and February 2021, respectively. Her marks of 48.36 (improved at the Tokyo Games) and 50.21 seconds place her respectively sixth and joint eighth on the world all-time list. She holds world bests over the 300 metres outdoors and indoors. At 16 years old, she was the 400 m 2010 World junior champion and took the World youth title a year later. At 19, Mil ...
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High Jump
The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat for landing. Since ancient times, competitors have successively improved their technique until developing the universally preferred Fosbury Flop, in which athletes run towards the bar and leap head first with their back to the bar. The discipline is, alongside the pole vault, one of two vertical clearance events in the Athletics at the Summer Olympics, Olympic athletics program. It is contested at the World Championships in Athletics and the World Athletics Indoor Championships, and is a common occurrence at track and field meets. The high jump was among the first events deemed acceptable for women, having been held at the Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics, 1928 Olympic Games. Javier Sotomayor (Cuba) is the world record holder with a j ...
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Mariya Lasitskene
Mariya Aleksandrovna Lasitskene (, ; ; born 14 January 1993) is a Russian athlete who specialises in the high jump. She is the 2020 Olympic champion and three-time world champion (2015, 2017, and 2019). With her victory in Tokyo, Lasitskene became the fourth female high jumper in history (after Stefka Kostadinova, Heike Henkel & Anna Chicherova) to win gold at both the Olympic Games and the World Championships. Lasitskene was not able to defend her Olympic high jump title due to a World Athletics ruling banning Russian track and field athletes from competing in the 2024 Summer Olympics. Career Lasitskene won her first international medal at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics, where she cleared a personal best of 1.85 m to take the silver medal behind Italian Alessia Trost. She was also the silver medallist at the 2009 European Youth Olympic Festival and 2009 Gymnasiade. In the inaugural 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, Lasitskene won a gold medal in the girls' h ...
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Dalilah Muhammad
Dalilah Muhammad (born February 7, 1990) is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles, 400 meters hurdles. She is the Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016 Rio Olympics champion and Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Tokyo Olympics silver medalist, becoming at the latter the then-400 metres hurdles#Women, second-fastest woman of all time in the event with her personal best of 51.58 seconds. Muhammad was second at both the 2013 World Championships in Athletics, 2013 and 2017 World Championships in Athletics, 2017 World Championships to take her first gold in 2019 World Athletics Championships, 2019, setting the former world record of 52.16 s. She was the second female 400 m hurdler in history, after Sally Gunnell, to have won the 400 metres hurdles#Olympic medalists, Olympic, 400 metres hurdles#World Championship medalists, World titles and broken the Women's 400 metres hurdles world record progression, world record. At both t ...
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3000 Metres Steeplechase
The 3000 metres steeplechase or 3000-meter steeplechase (usually Abbreviation, abbreviated as ) is the most common distance for the steeplechase (athletics), steeplechase in track and field. It is an obstacle race over the distance of the 3000 metres, which derives its name from the horse racing steeplechase. Rules It is one of the track events in the Summer Olympics, Olympic Games and the World Athletics Championships, and it is also an event recognized by World Athletics. The obstacles for men are high, and for women, they are high. The water jump consists of a barrier followed by a pit of water with a landing area defined as follows: The pit is 3.66 m (12 feet) square. The pit's forward-direction measurement starts from the approach edge of the barrier and ends at the point where the water jump slope reaches the flat surface of the steeple pathway. The rulebook simply but clearly states, "The water jump, including the hurdle, shall be 3.66 m in length." Pits ...
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Beatrice Chepkoech
Beatrice Chepkoech Sitonik (born 6 July 1991) is a Kenyan Long-distance running, long-distance runner who specialises in the 3000 metres steeplechase. She won gold medals at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, 2019 World Championships and 2018 African Championships in Athletics, 2018 African Championships and silver medal at the 2023 World Athletics Championships, 2023 World Championships. In the 1500 metres, Chepkoech took silver at the Athletics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, 2018 Commonwealth Games and bronze at the Athletics at the 2015 African Games, 2015 African Games. She is the 3000 metres steeplechase world record progression#Women, world record holder for the 3000 m steeplechase with a time of 8:44.32 set in 2018 in Herculis, Monaco. With that mark she became the first woman to break the 8:50 and 8:45 barriers in the event. Chepkoech is a two-time 3000 m steeplechase Diamond League champion and won two Kenyan national titles. Career Beatrice Chepkoech be ...
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Dina Asher-Smith
Geraldina Rachel Asher-Smith (born 4 December 1995) is a British sprinter competing in the 60 metres, 100 m and 200 m. Internationally competing since 2011, she holds national records in all three sprint events, making her the fastest British woman on record. Asher-Smith won a gold medal in the 200 metres, silver in the 100 metres and another silver in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2019 World Championships, breaking her own British records. She was the first Briton to win three medals at a World Championships. She earned a bronze in the 200 m at the 2022 World Championships. As part of 4 × 100 m relay teams, she won bronze medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and the silver medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics as well as medals at the 2013, 2017 and 2019 World Championships. Her highest Olympic finish individually was fourth in the 200 metres at the 2024 Games, missing a medal by two-hundredths of a second. Asher-Smith won the 2013 Euro ...
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5000 Metres
The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to or . It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over laps of a standard 400 m track, or 25 laps on an indoor 200 m track. The same distance in road running is called a 5K run; referring to the distance in metres rather than kilometres serves to disambiguate the two events. The 5000 m has been present on the Olympic programme since 1912 for men and since 1996 for women. Prior to 1996, women had competed in an Olympic 3000 metres race since 1984. The 5000 m has been held at each of the World Championships in Athletics in men's competition and since 1995 in women's. The event is almost the same length as the dolichos race held at the Ancient Olympic Games, introduced in 720 BCE. World Athletics keeps official records for both outdoor and indoor 5000-metre track events. 3 miles The 5000 m ...
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Discus Throw
The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field sport in which the participant athlete throws an oblate spheroid weight (object), weight called a discus in an attempt to mark a further distance than other competitors. It is an classical antiquity, ancient sport, as demonstrated by the fifth-century-BC Myron statue ''Discobolus''. Although not part of the current pentathlon, it was one of the events of the Ancient Olympic pentathlon, ancient Greek pentathlon, which can be dated back to at least 708 BC, and it is part of the modern decathlon. History The sport of throwing the discus traces back to it being an event in the Ancient Olympic Games, original Olympic Games of Ancient Greece. The discus as a sport was resurrected in Magdeburg, Germany, by gymnastics teacher Christian Georg Kohlrausch and his students in the 1870s. Organized men's competition was resumed in the late 19th century, and has been a part of the modern Summer Olympic Games since the fi ...
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Daniel Ståhl
Daniel Ståhl (born 27 August 1992) is a Swedish athlete specialising in the discus throw. Ståhl is the Olympic champion ( 2020 Tokyo) and two-time world champion ( 2019 Doha, 2023 Budapest), setting the new championships record in Budapest. Career He competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing finishing fifth. In 2016, he competed at the European Championships, where he finished fifth. Ståhl also competed at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro the same year, where he failed to qualify for the final. Just a couple of weeks following his failure in Rio, Ståhl competed at the Swedish Championships in Sollentuna. Not only did he win the discus throw on a new personal best 68.72 metres, it was also the new world leading throw of 2016, surpassing Christoph Harting's 68.37 metres from the Rio Olympics final. By the end of the year, it remained the number one throw in 2016. The day before, Ståhl had also won the shot put on a new personal best 19.38 metres. In June ...
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