World Athletics ratified five world records on Friday, officially clearing marks set by Beatrice Chebet, Mondo Duplantis, Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Toshikazu Yamanishi.
And of the five records confirmed by World Athletics, Ingebrigtsen set two in the same race in February.
The first record of the group was set by Beatrice Chebet on December 31 with a stunning 13:54 performance in the 5K in Barcelona set right at the close of 2024. Chebet ripped 19 seconds from the previous mark and she also became the first woman to break 14 minutes at that distance on any surface, road or track.
Agnes Ngetich held the previous record of 14:13, which she set in Valencia in January 2024.
“I’m super happy as everything went according to plan,” Chebet said back in December. “I felt capable of running under 14 and I managed to do so. My focus for next year is to win gold medals over 5000m and 10,000m at the World Championships in Tokyo.”
Ingebrigtsen, meanwhile, sent shockwaves through the running universe on February 13 when he set a pair or records in the same race at the men’s indoor mile in Lievin. He set the 1,500m mark in 3:29.63 during the race in Lievin and won in 3:45.14, grabbing a second record.
The excitement of the record was boosted further since Ingebrigtsen broke the 3:46.63 mile record Yared Nuguse set just a week earlier at the Millrose Games in New York.
“It feels amazing,” said Ingebrigtsen after the race in February. “You have to be focused for the whole race. It’s tough, but it’s worth it.”
Just three days later, Yamanishi broke the world record in in the men’s 20km race walk in Kobe, Japan in 1:16:10 on February 16 — beating the mark by 26 seconds, a record Yusuke Suzuki (1:16:36 ) set in 2015.
“When I was planning my race, whatever happened in the race I was aiming for the world record,” Yamanishi said in February. “With my performance today, I was able to express my appreciation towards my supporters who stuck along even during the last season when I was struggling.”
And Duplantis set the final record of the group with 6.27m height that he cleared on February 28 in Silesia at Clermont-Ferrand in France, marking yet another world record in the pole vault. He cleared the height in his first attempt and was his eleventh world pole vault record.
