World record

Ethiopian athlete Gudaf Tsegay smashed the women's 5,000m World Record with a run of 14 minutes 00.21 seconds on Sunday at the Eugene Diamond League finale, breaking Kenyan Faith Kipyegon's previous mark set in June. Tsegay set a…

Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma shattered the 25-year-old world 3,000m indoor record on Wednesday by more than one second at the Lieven meeting as Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis won his third successive pole vault event. Girma clocked 7min 23.81sec…

Nigeria's World Record (WR) holder in the Women’s 100m Hurdles, Tobi Amusan, has made the final-five shortlist for the Women’s World Athlete of the Year award, as the countdown to the 2022 World Athletics Awards continues. Amusan…

Nigerian athlete Tobi Amusan has become Nigeria’s first ever World Record (WR) holder in Track and Field history after smashing Kendra Harrison’s former 100m Hurdles WR of 12.20s set in 2016, and replacing it with an astonishing 12.12s to…

Venezuelan athlete Yulimar Rojas bettered her own women's triple jump world record with a leap of 15.74 metres to win Gold at the World Indoor Championships, tagged Belgrade 2022, on Sunday. The Olympic champion beat her previous outright…

Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey smashed the women's half marathon world record on Sunday, finishing in one hour, two minutes and 52 seconds at the Valencia Half Marathon Trinidad Alfonso EDP. Gidey, 23, who is also the world 5,000 metres…

Burundian athlete Francine Niyonsaba broke the 2,000 metres World Record in her last race of the season, finishing in a time of 5 minutes and 21.56 seconds at the Continental Tour Gold event in Zagreb, Croatia. Niyonsaba, 28, who won the…

Ethiopian athlete Yalemzerf Yehualaw smashed the half marathon world record on Sunday, finishing in 01:03:43s at the Antrim Coast Half Marathon in Larne, Northern Ireland, to shave 19 seconds of the previous mark. The previous record was…

Ethiopian athlete Letesenbet Gidey has broken the 10,000m world record in a time of 29:01.03 to win the Ethiopian Trials on Tuesday in Hengelo, Netherlands. Gidey,23, broke the record which was set by Dutch athlete Sifan Hassan on the…