World Athletics announced on Wednesday that six world records set during 2024, including three during the Paris Olympics, have officially been ratified.
These latest ratifications are in addition to three other records by Jessica Hull, Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Mondo Duplantis that were certified in October.
The first record of the Paris Games came in a stunning semifinal by Team USA’s mixed 4x400m team, as Vernon Norwood, Shamier Little, Bryce Deadmon and Kaylyn Brown cruised to 3:07.41 win in their heat on August 2. Just three days later, Duplantis cleared 6.25m in the men’s pole vault final, breaking the world record he set in April.
Then on August 8, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone clocked 50.37 in the women’s 400m hurdles final and shattered her own 50.65 record she set at the US Olympic Trials in June.
But outside of the Paris Games, three other records were recognized by World Athletics, beginning with Beatrice Chebet’s 28:54.14 mark in the 10,000m at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon in May. Ruth Chepngetich created shockwaves in the running landscape in October after shattering the record in the women’s division of the Chicago Marathon in 2:09:56.
Just over a week after Chepngetich’s performance, Masatora Kawano surged to a 2:21:47 win in the 35km race walk in Takahata, Japan.
Kawano’s win is the first race walk time to meet record standards since World Athletics established in 2022 that 2:22:00 would be the goal to beat in order to qualify for a world record.
The six records ratified this week are likely the last to receive the designations in 2024. Hull’s 5:19.70 indoor 2,000m time in Monaco in July, Ingebrigtsen’s 7:17.55 in the men’s 3,000m at the Diamond League meet in Chorzow in August, Poland and the 6.26m height cleared by Duplantis at the same event were the first three marks authenticated this year.
