Other records ratified by World Athletics include the USA's mixed relay 4x400m team, who set a new mark of 3:07.41 in Paris, Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis with his men’s pole vault record of 6.25m in the Paris Olympic Games, USA’s Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone in the 400m hurdles with a time of 50.37, and Japan’s Masatora Kawano, who clocked 2:21:47 in the men’s 35km race walk.
World Athletics has officially ratified the world record-breaking performances of Kenyan duo Beatrice Chebet and Ruth Chepng'etich.
Chebet set the new 10,000m record during the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League in Eugene, USA, in May, becoming the first woman to run under 29 minutes with a time of 28:54.14. The previous record was held by Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey, who clocked 29:01.03 in Hengelo, the Netherlands, in 2021.
