Jakob Ingebrigtsen breaks the world 3000m record in Silesia (© Marta Gorczynska)
Senior world records:
Women’s 2000m
5:19.70 Jessica Hull (AUS) Monaco, 12 July 2024
Men’s 3000m
7:17.55 Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR) Chorzow, 25 August 2024
Men’s pole vault
6.26m Mondo Duplantis (SWE) Chorzow, 25 August 2024
U20 world records:
Men’s indoor 1500m
3:34.83 Biniam Mehary (ETH) Torun, 6 February 2024
Women’s indoor 200m
22.34 JaMeesia Ford (USA) Boston, 9 March 2024
Women’s javelin
64.28m Yan Ziyi (CHN) Hangzhou, 14 April 2024
Men’s long jump
8.38m Mattia Furlani (ITA) Rome, 8 June 2024
Men’s 1000m
2:14.37 Niels Laros (NED) Hengelo, 7 July 2024
World records set in recent months by Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Mondo Duplantis and Jessica Hull have now been ratified by World Athletics.
Five world U20 records – set by Biniam Mehary, Mattia Furlani, JaMeesia Ford, Yan Ziyi and Niels Laros – have also been ratified.
Olympic champions Ingebrigtsen and Duplantis broke world records within moments of each other at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Silesia. Ingebrigtsen shattered the mark for 3000m with 7:17.55, taking more than three seconds off the previous world record of 7:20.67 that Kenya’s Daniel Komen set in Rieti on 1 September 1996.
About an hour later, Duplantis took to the pole vault runway and cleared 6.26m, adding a centimetre to the world record he set when winning the Olympic title in Paris on 5 August.
Prior to the Olympic Games, Hull entered the record books with her run over 2000m at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco. The Australian distance runner won by more than six seconds in 5:19.70, breaking the world record of 5:21.56 set by Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba on 14 September 2021.
Back in February, Ethiopian distance runner Biniam Mehary made a name for himself by breaking the world U20 indoor 1500m record in Torun. His 3:34.83 clocking was an improvement on the previous mark of 3:36.02 set by Ingebrigtsen in Dusseldorf on 20 February 2019.
Another world U20 indoor record fell a few weeks later when US sprinter JaMeesia Ford sped to a 22.34 clocking over 200m in Boston, shaving 0.06 off the mark set by USA’s Bianca Knight in Fayetteville on 14 March 2008. Ford had twice clocked 22.36 earlier in the season, but neither performance could be ratified as a world U20 indoor record.
The world U20 records continued to fall outdoors, starting in April when China’s Yan Ziyi sent her javelin flying out to 64.28m in Hangzhou. Not only did the 16-year-old break the previous world U20 record of 63.86m set by Cuba’s Yulenmis Aguilar in Edmonton on 2 August 2015, she also set a world U18 best. At the end of the season, Yan went on to improve her best to 64.41m, which is pending ratification.
For the home crowd at the European Championships in Rome, one of the standout moments came from Italian teenager Mattia Furlani, who sailed out to a world U20 long jump record of 8.38m to earn silver. His jump was a three-centimetre improvement on the mark set by Russia’s Sergey Morgunov in Cheboksary on 20 June 2012.
Niels Laros is another teenager who set a world U20 on home soil. The Dutch middle-distance runner clocked 2:14.37 to win the 1000m at the Continental Tour Gold meeting in Hengelo in July, breaking the mark of 2:15.00 set by Kenya’s Benjamin Kipkurui in Nice on 17 July 1999.
World Athletics