—- World Athletics has ratified world records achieved by Mondo Duplantis, Agnes Ngetich, Emmanuel Wanyonyi, and two U20 short track records by Cameron Myers.
Duplantis’s ratified world record is his 6.28m pole vault, achieved at the Wanda Diamond League in Stockholm, Sweden, on 15 June. It marked the 12th world record by the Swedish two-time Olympic and world champion and his first one on home soil.
Clearing 6.28m on his first try, he added one centimetre to his previous record of 6.27m set indoors in Clermont-Ferrand on 28 February.
“I feel full to the brim right now,” said Duplantis. “My family is here. When I was 11, I first jumped in this stadium—it was rainy and cold, and I jumped just under four metres, which was high for my age.
“I want to enjoy this moment. There’s really not much between me and 6.30m. I’m just one perfect day away from it.”
He later improved his record by another centimetre with a 6.29m vault at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold in Budapest on 12 August, now pending ratification.
Kenya’s Ngetich set her women-only 10km record at the adizero Road to Records event in Herzogenaurach, Germany, on 26 April.
She clocked 29:27, becoming the first woman to break 30 minutes in a women-only 10km. The 24-year-old, who already held the mixed 10km record (28:46), passed halfway in 14:37 and won by over a minute, breaking a record held by the late Agnes Tirop. Tirop’s 30:01 mark was set in Herzogenaurach on 12 September 2021.
“I’m so excited, I didn’t expect this,” Ngetich said. “I missed it by two seconds last year, so I came here today to try again. I’m very proud of myself.”
Kenya’s Wanyonyi also set his world road mile record in Herzogenaurach, but a year earlier. Now the Olympic 800m champion, he ran 3:54.6 at the adizero Road to Records on 27 April 2024.
Choosing to debut in the mile instead of his usual distance, Wanyonyi bettered the previous 3:56.13 mark set by the USA’s Hobbs Kessler at the World Athletics Road Running Championships in Riga on 1 October 2023.
“I feel so happy for today. It wasn’t easy, but I pushed myself,” said Wanyonyi. “My coach told me I could break the world record.”
The world record has since been bettered to 3:51.3 by Britain’s Elliot Giles in Dusseldorf on 1 September 2024, and that was ratified in March.
Australia’s Myers achieved two world U20 short track records at the Millrose Games, part of the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold, in New York, USA, on 8 February.
Placing third in a Wanamaker Mile race won by Yared Nuguse in a world record 3:46.63, 18-year-old Myers ran a U20 mile short track record of 3:47.48, passing 1500m in a U20 short track record of 3:32.67. Ethiopia’s Biniam Mehary had set the 1500m record on 6 February in Torun, while Myers had held the previous mile record of 3:53.12, run in New York on 25 January.
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