Amusan, McLaughlin Top Major Track And Field Record Setters In 2022

Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan and USA’s Sydney McLaughlin are two of the athletes who set new benchmarks for their respective event in 2022.

Who are the athletes that ran fastest and soared highest in their events in 2022. SportsNow profiles the 2022 world record setters.

Tobi Amusan (Nigeria)
The 25 year old Nigerian had an amazing year as the women’s 100m hurdler set the new world record at 12.12 in Oregon.

The record was set during the semifinal of the event. She did go better in the final with a stunning 12.06 run but a wind speed of +2.5m/s meant her the timing wasn’t ratified as a world record.

Sydney McLaughlin (USA)
The American became the first woman in history to run 400m hurdles under 51 seconds in the final of the World Championships. She clocked a stunning 50.68 seconds to leave behind her previous world record of 51.41 set during US Championships a month earlier.

Yalemzerf Yehualaw (Ethiopia)
The 23-year-old athlete set a new world record in 10km race with a stunning 29:14 run at the Castellon 10K (a World Athletics Label road race) in Spain.

She currently sits second on the world all-time list at the half marathon and tenth on the respective world all-time list for the marathon.

Yulimar Rojas (Venezuela)
Rojas improved her own women’s triple jump world record with a jump of 15.74m at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade in March, betterring her previous best of 15.67m set at the delayed Tokyo Olympic Games last year.

Armand Duplantis (Sweden)
The 20-year-old has been phenomenal all season, setting another personal best and world record of 6.21m at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon back in August. Surpassing his previous record of 6.20m.