Five world records became official on Friday as World Athletics announced that marks set by Mondo Duplantis, Agnes Ngetich, Emmanuel Wanyonyi and Cameron Myers are now ratified.
The records span from April 2024 to June 2025 and include a pair of U20 short track times from Myers from the same race, a pole vault height by Duplantis, women-only mark by Ngetich and a road mile stunner by Wanyonyi.
Duplantis set is 12th record on June 15 at a Diamond League meet in Stockholm, Sweden and cleared 6.28m on the way to a win in the pole vault.
“I feel full to the brim right now,” Duplantis after he set the mark in June. “I’ve got a lot of family here. The first time I jumped in this stadium when I was 11 years old, it was rainy and cold, and I jumped right under four meters – it was quite high for how young I was.”
The height has since been broken — by Duplantis — with a 6.29m height on August 12 in Budapest and is still up for usual ratification protocols.
Ngetich broke the women-only 10k record on April 26 in 29:27 in Herzogenaurach, Germany and became the first competitor to go under 30 minutes in a women-only 10k race. Her mark took down the previous record from Agnes Jebet Tirop, who ran 30:01 in 2021. Ngetich also already held the 10k record in a mixed race at 28:46 from 2024 in Valencia.
“I’m so excited, I didn’t expect this,” Ngetich said in April after breaking the record. “Last year I missed it by two seconds, so I wanted to come here today and try for it again. I’m so proud of myself.”
Meanwhile, Wanyonyi clinched his road mile record in April 27, 2024 in Herzogenaurach in 3:54.6. World Athletics did not say why Wanyonyi’s mark took more than a year to be ratified but the record has since been pushed down to 3:51.3 in Dusseldorf on September 1, 2024 — and was ratified in March.
Myers turned heads on February 8 when he set a pair of U20 records during the Wanamaker Mile at the Millrose Games in New York at The Armory. Myers finished third in 3:47.48, a new U20 short track mark and also grabbed the U20 1,500m short track record in 3:32.6.
