2018 Man of the Year Eliud Kipchoge Table of Contents
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• EXCLUSIVE 2018 WORLD RANKINGS • ATHLETES OF THE YEAR • DECEMBER 2018 www.trackandfieldnews.com Year No. 72: Exclusive World & U.S. Rankings Complete Seasons For All Top 10 World Rankers Our Athletes Of The Year: Eliud Kipchoge & Caster Semenya Top Americans: Noah Lyles & Shelby Houlihan 2018 Man Of The Year Eliud Kipchoge Table Of Contents From The Editor — After 50 Years, My Favorite Annual 2018 Women’s 5000 World Rankings . 43 Edition Ever . 3 2018 Women’s 10,000 World Rankings . 44 The 2018 T&FN World Rankings Explained . 5 2018 Women’s 100 Hurdles World Rankings . 45 2018 Women’s 400 Hurdles World Rankings . 46 World Men’s Athlete Of The Year — Eliud Kipchoge . 7 2018 Women’s Marathon World Rankings . 47 2018 Men’s 100 World Rankings . 9 2018 Women’s 20K Walk World Rankings . 48 2018 Men’s 200 World Rankings . 10 2018 Women’s 50K Walk World Rankings . 49 2018 Men’s 400 World Rankings . 11 2018 Women’s High Jump World Rankings . 50 2018 Men’s 800 World Rankings . 12 2018 Women’s Pole Vault World Rankings . 51 2018 Men’s 1500/Mile World Rankings . 13 2018 Women’s Long Jump World Rankings . 52 2018 Men’s Steeplechase World Rankings . 14 2018 Women’s Triple Jump World Rankings . 53 2018 Men’s 5000 World Rankings . 15 2018 Women’s Shot World Rankings . 54 2018 Men’s 10,000 World Rankings . 16 2018 Women’s Discus World Rankings . 55 2018 Men’s 110 Hurdles World Rankings . 17 2018 Women’s Hammer World Rankings . 56 2018 Men’s 400 Hurdles World Rankings . 18 2018 Women’s Javelin World Rankings . 57 2018 Men’s Marathon World Rankings . 19 2018 Women’s Heptathlon World Rankings . .. 58 2018 Men’s 20K Walk World Rankings . .. 20 Women’s Performance Of The Year . 59 2018 Men’s 50K Walk World Rankings . .. 21 U .S . Women’s Athlete Of The Year — Shelby Houlihan . 60 2018 Men’s High Jump World Rankings . 22 2018 Men’s Pole Vault World Rankings . 23 Analyzing The 2018 T&FN Rankings . 62 2018 Men’s Long Jump World Rankings . 24 Course Records In Both NXN Races . 64 2018 Men’s Triple Jump World Rankings . 25 Foot Locker’s Pair Of Unassuming Champions . 66 2018 Men’s Shot World Rankings . 26 Emma Bates Breaks Through At USATF Marathon Champs 2018 Men’s Discus World Rankings . 27 . 68 2018 Men’s Hammer World Rankings . 28 Cold & Wet At The Euro XC Champs . 71 2018 Men’s Javelin World Rankings . 29 Meet Willie Banks, IAAF Candidate . 72 2018 Men’s Decathlon World Rankings . 30 USATF Hall Of Fame Class Of 2018 . 74 Men’s Performance Of The Year . 31 Book Review — Ralph Doubell: Do Not Worry, It Is Only U .S . Men’s Athlete Of The Year — Noah Lyles . .. 32 Pain . 77 World Women’s Athlete Of The Year — Caster Semenya 35 ON YOUR MARKS — December . 78 2018 Women’s 100 World Rankings . .. 37 LANDMARKS — December . 79 2018 Women’s 200 World Rankings . .. 38 STATUS QUO — December . 80 2018 Women’s 400 World Rankings . .. 39 LAST LAP — December . 80 2018 Women’s 800 World Rankings . .. 40 FOR THE RECORD — December . 85 2018 Women’s 1500/Mile World Rankings . 41 CALENDAR — December . 86 2018 Women’s Steeplechase World Rankings . 42 December 2018 PDF — Page 2 From The Editor — After 50 Years, My Favorite Annual Edition Ever by E . Garry Hill WHAT A YEAR 2018 turned out to be. Conventional wisdom had it posi- tioned as one of those off-years with no Olympics or World Championships to brighten our lives—at least that’s what glass-half-full types think—but as is always the case, the athletes came through big-time anyway. Kipchoge, Semenya, Mayer, Duplantis—the list of high-end performers was boundless. They made it easy for us to produce my favorite issue of every year, the An- nual Edition, what with all its Rankings and lists. And this is probably my favorite of all the 50 (yes, 50!) Annuals of which I’ve played a part. It shouldn’t take much time for veteran subscribers to notice the marked upgrade in the World Rankings in this, our first Annual of the digital age. In years past we laid out the complete season for the No. 1s in each event, with most of the others in the Top 10 having their seasons pared down in order for us to be able to squeeze an event onto a single print page. But as a wise trackwriter once said, “Electrons are free,” and that means there’s no more squeezing required: not only have we laid out for you the complete season for each member of the top 10, we’ve also added 2 more columns to the mix. In the recent past, the Rankings have given you just the mark/place/meet. Now you also get the date of the meet and—and this is a big one—a column detailing all those who beat the athlete in the meet in question. That should go a long way towards making our Ranking decisions easier to figure out. And as another adjunct to the whole increase-your-pleasure dynamic, each event has a link to yearly Top 50 lists instead of Top 40. And best of all, you’re going to get the whole shebang—for the first time ever—before the end-of-year holidays. Such is the wonder of digital publishing. Push a button and it’s done. No waiting at a printing plant, no disappearance down the rabbit hole that is the postal system. Direct from us to you at the speed of light. Unlike running, however, we realize that speed isn’t everything in the entertainment biz. There’s something to be said about the look and feel of an ink & paper product. That’s why while we’re completely committed by the realities of the modern marketplace to making a go of the digital enterprise, we’ve also been trying to bring some satisfaction to those faithful readers who simply can’t live without some tree product. Our first stab in that direction was the PDF version, which allows you to print out a “copy” of the online magazine either at home or your local Kinko’s. The early PDFs were, to be honest, a fairly feeble product as we struggled with a formidable transition from decades of ingrained hard-copy methodologies. Ugly huge blocks of white space, bad breaks between articles, ultra-wide columns. As the year went on, we refined the process, so if you got turned off back in April, try ones from later in the year to see how much we improved the product. The New Print Version We’ve not given up trying to improve your ability to get to a style of T&FN you can live with, so we’re happy to announce that starting with Janu- ary ’19 we’ll be able to offer you something in the ink & paper realm that’s closer to the old days. Make no mistake: this is not T&FN as you once knew it, but it’ll be pretty darn close. In essence we’ll be taking the PDF version December 2018 PDF — Page 3 and turning that into a printed version that we can mail to some 200pp. That’s just a non-starter, so all that wonderful you. There are some cautions: in the printing industry to detail that’s in the Rankings will have to disappear (as it make it an economic possibility we’re required to produce will from the PDF version, but note that if you’re reading the pages in multiples of 8, meaning that when the PDFs are PDF version onscreen, it includes links to the fully detailed converted, there will almost surely be some copy that gets Rankings on our website). eliminated/truncated to make it fit. Or perhaps a photo or Hopefully we’ve now struck upon a mix of options that two will disappear. will please everybody and you’ll hang with us long enough In addition to the multiples-of-8 wrinkle there’s also to see many more great years of field & track. We’ve derived the matter of our having to produce a product that isn’t so great pleasure through the years in serving the world’s long it decimates an entire Canadian forest. 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