The pantheon of mile world record-holders has a new member.
When Josh Kerr <a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/diamond-league/news/london-athletics-meet-2026-josh-kerr-world-mile-record" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stormed over the finish line at the London Stadium on 18 July</a>, he added his name to a prestigious list &ndash; one that had not been changed for 27 years.
Clocking a sensational 3:42.66, the British 28-year-old took 0.47 off the world record of 3:43.13 set by Hicham El Guerrouj in Rome on 7 July 1999.
&ldquo;To my family, my team, and everyone who believed &ndash; thank you. It took a lifetime of work and 222 seconds to execute,&rdquo; Kerr wrote on social media following an attempt that had been labelled &lsquo;Project 222&rsquo;.
The men&rsquo;s mile world record has now been improved 19 times since Roger Bannister ran 3:59.4 in Oxford on 6 May 1954 to become the first athlete to break four minutes for the distance.
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Men's mile world record-breakers (&copy; World Athletics) Marks listed are as ratified at the time. *h indicates hand timing
<h2>Analysis of Kerr&rsquo;s 3:42.66</h2>
400m: 55.3 800m: 1:51.1 1200m: 2:46.5 1500m: 3:27.62
In addition to the transponder times for the above checkpoints, data taken at 440 yards, 880 yards and 1320 yards means the pace can be broken down into quarters, as has been the tradition for historic performances in the mile.
Kerr&rsquo;s quarters by transponder were 55.55, 56.17, 55.71 and 55.23, though these are customarily expressed to the nearest tenth. He therefore covered the first half of the race in 1:51.72 and the second in 1:50.94, or 1:51.8 and 1:50.9 if the cumulative times are rounded up. In the previous world record race of El Guerrouj in 1999, the halves were completed in 1:51.58 and 1:51.55.
The numbers show that Kerr&rsquo;s lead stretched from 0.3 to 2.71 over the field in the last 440 yards, with Jake Heyward and Arlo Ludewick being the next quickest finishers. The race analysis also reveals how far each finisher ran. With such an orderly race, it&rsquo;s not surprising that six of the 10, including the top four, ran the exact mile distance, with the other four running up to 3.8 metres farther.
With his 3:42.66, Kerr became the first man to run a mile faster than the 3:43.0 spilt Bannister clocked for 1500m during his first sub-four-minute mile 72 years ago.
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<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">440 yards</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">880 yards</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">1320 yards</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">One mile</td>
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<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">Josh Kerr (GBR)</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">55.6</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">1:51.8 56.2</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">2:47.5 55.7</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">3:42.66 55.2</td>
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<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">Yared Nuguse (USA)</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">55.8</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">1:52.0 56.2</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">2:47.8 55.8</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">3:45.69 57.9</td>
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<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">Jake Heyward (GBR)</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">56.9</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">1:53.6 56.7</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">2:50.8 57.2</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">3:46.73 56.0</td>
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<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">Robert Farken (GER)</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">56.3</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">1:52.5 56.2</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">2:48.2 55.7</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">3:46.82 58.7</td>
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<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">Nathan Green (USA)</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">57.0</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">1:53.8 56.8</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">2:51.2 57.4</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">3:48.05 56.9</td>
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<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">Arlo Ludewick (GBR)</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">57.1</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">1:54.1 57.0</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">2:51.6 57.5</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">3:48.17 56.6</td>
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<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">Ethan Strand (USA)</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">56.6</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">1:53.0 56.4</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">2:50.8 57.8</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">3:49.13 58.4</td>
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<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">Thomas Keen (GBR)</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">56.4</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">1:53.2 56.8</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">2:50.9 57.7</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">3:49.33 58.5</td>
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<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">Sam Prakel (USA)</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">57.2</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">1:54.3 57.1</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">2:51.9 57.6</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">3:49.63 57.8</td>
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<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">Archie Davis (GBR)</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">56.8</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">1:53.4 56.6</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">2:51.5 58.1</td>
<td style="width: 20%; height: 22px;">3:51.09 59.6</td>
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Race analysis by Mark Butler for World Athletics
The history of the mile world record is included in the World Athletics Heritage publication 'Progression of World Athletics Records', which is <a href="https://worldathletics.org/news/news/win-a-copy-of-new-progression-of-world-athletics-records-book" target="_blank" rel="noopener">available to view online</a>
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The pantheon of mile world record-holders has a new member.

Mile world record: how Kerr added his name to the history book

As the fourth of the eight contenders in the women&rsquo;s 100m final at the 2022 Commonwealth Games bounded out on to the bright blue Birmingham track, Katharine Merry, on commentary duty for the world television feed, gave a brief summation of the Jamaican sprinter&rsquo;s CV: &ldquo;Elaine Thompson-Herah&hellip;the fastest woman alive, five-times Olympic gold medallist.&rdquo;
At the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene the year before, Thompson-Herah ran the 100m in a scorching 10.54, just 0.05 shy of the supposedly untouchable world record held by the late Florence Griffith Joyner.
Thompson-Herah also had a place in track and field posterity as the only woman to have achieved back-to-back Olympic doubles at 100m and 200m &ndash; alongside the only man to have accomplished the feat, Usain Bolt.
At the age of 30, however, Thompson-Herah had yet to win an individual medal of any colour at the Commonwealth Games. She had 4x100m gold from Glasgow in 2014, having run in the heats before making way for Schillonie Calvert in the final, plus a silver from the same event on the Gold Coast in 2018.
In individual events, she had made just one appearance, missing a medal by 0.01 as the fourth-placed finisher in the 200m in 2018, clocking 22.30 behind the victorious Bahamian Shaunae Miller-Uibo (22.09), her Jamaican teammate Shericka Jackson (22.18) and England&rsquo;s Dina Asher-Smith (22.29).
In Birmingham in 2022, however, Thompson-Herah finally ended her drought.
At the renovated Alexander Stadium where she was a Diamond League winner over 100m in 2017, and in the central English city where she placed fourth in the world indoor 60m final in 2018, the Jamaican added her name to the select list of female athletes who have achieved 100m and 200m victories at a single Commonwealth Games.
Proudly sporting the yellow national singlet she has generously donated to the Museum of World Athletics, in the space of three days the fastest woman on the planet completed a sprint double last accomplished by Debbie Ferguson of The Bahamas in Manchester in 2002 and historically achieved by the Australian trio of Decima Norman (1938), Marjorie Jackson-Nelson (1950 and 1954) and Marlene Willard (1958).
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Elaine Thompson-Herah's 2022 Commonwealth Games vest (&copy; MOWA)
First up, in the climax to the second day of track action, Wednesday 3 August, Thompson-Herah stamped her class on the 100m final, surging clear at 40 metres and crossing the line a clear winner in 10.95, with her future successor as Olympic 100m champion, the emerging Saint Lucian Julien Alfred, second in 11.01 and England&rsquo;s Daryll Neita third in 11.07.
&ldquo;I am grateful to win my first Commonwealth title,&rdquo; Thompson-Herah reflected. &ldquo;I started out as a rookie in the relay in 2014, then I was fourth in 2018 in the 200m. Now I have moved up to a gold.&rdquo;
Three nights later, on Jamaican Independence Day, Saturday 6 August, the double-double Olympic champion stormed clear around the curve in the 200m final and finished five metres clear of the field in 22.02, slicing 0.07 off the Games record set by Miller-Uibo in 2018.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a big achievement for me to add to my resume,&rdquo; said Thompson-Herah, who was followed home by Favour Ofili of Nigeria (22.51) and Christine Mboma (22.80), the 19-year-old Namibian who had taken Olympic 200m silver behind Thompson-Herah in Tokyo the previous year.
&ldquo;It didn&rsquo;t work out for me at the World Championships in Oregon last month, but I couldn&rsquo;t dwell on that,&rdquo; said the Jamaican. &ldquo;I came here and got the double. I&rsquo;m super happy with that.&rdquo;
Thompson-Herah, who added 4x100m bronze to her medal collection the following day, had fallen short of global gold on the Oregon trail, finishing third in the 100m behind her compatriots Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Jackson and seventh in the 200m before contributing towards a second-placed Jamaican finish behind the US in the 4x100m.
As a youngster, Elaine Sandra-Lee Thompson was never one of the golden girls of Jamaica&rsquo;s Boys and Girls Championships. Her highest placing at the annual sprint extravaganza more commonly known as Champs was fourth in the class two girls 100m final in 2009, finishing half a second behind the winner in 12.01.
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Elaine Thompson-Herah (&copy; Getty Images)
Under the guidance of Stephen Francis, training alongside Fraser-Pryce in the MVP sprint stable at the University of Technology in Kingston, the girl from Banana Ground made her breakthrough at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, claiming 200m silver behind Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands in 21.66 to go fifth on the all-time list.
In Rio a year later Thompson-Herah became the first woman since Griffith Joyner in 1988 to win the Olympic 100m and 200m. Hampered by achilles tendon problems over the next four years, she returned to form with a vengeance in 2021.
Following her 10.54 clocking in Eugene, she broke Griffith Joyner&rsquo;s Olympic 100m record with 10.61 in Tokyo, then won the 200m in 21.53, which at the time was second only to the late US sprinter&rsquo;s 21.34 world record. Gold in the 4x100m earned her membership of the Olympic women&rsquo;s sprint treble club &ndash; alongside the original Flying Dutchwoman Fanny Blankers-Koen (1948), Australia&rsquo;s Betty Cuthbert (1956) Wilma Rudolph of the USA (1960) and Griffith Joyner (1988).
At the World Championships, Thompson-Herah has only collected the one gold, from the 4x100m in 2015. Thus far, that is.
At the age of 33, after two years of achilles injury problems, she is on the comeback trail &ndash; under the guidance of Reynaldo Walcott at the Elite Performance Track Club.
After a couple of low-key outdoor 60m races in Kingston in February, she won the 200m in the Velocity Fest meeting at the National Stadium on 21 March, clocking 22.61 &ndash; her fastest time since clinching her Commonwealth double in Birmingham four years ago.
So there is time yet to savour a sprinter lauded by Patrick Robinson, the prominent international judge and author of Jamaican Athletics &ndash; A Model for 2012 and the World, as a phenomenon to behold.
&ldquo;In Thompson-Herah, we see not just power raw and crude, but power refined and transformed into a thing of beauty,&rdquo; he wrote last year. &ldquo;The majesty of her running is without equal.&rdquo;
Simon Turnbull for World Athletics Heritage
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Elaine Thompson-Herah has donated her 2022 Commonwealth Games vest to the Museum of World Athletics

Thompson-Herah's journey to individual Commonwealth Games gold

Miltiadis Tentoglou equalled the Greek long jump record while Alison dos Santos produced the second-fastest 400m hurdles performance of his career as both athletes set world leads at their respective national championships on Sunday (26).
Double Olympic champion Tentoglou delivered the finest series of his career at the Greek Championships in Volos, recording three jumps beyond 8.60m.
He opened with a wind-legal 8.52m before soaring out to a wind-assisted 8.66m (2.7m/s) in the second round. Tentoglou then matched that distance with a legal 1.0m/s following wind in round three, improving his PB by one centimetre and equalling the national record set by Louis Tsatoumas in 2007.
Tentoglou, who moved to joint 13th on the world all-time list and joint third among Europeans, completed his series with another huge leap of 8.64m (0.7m/s) in the final round.
&ldquo;My last jump was the best of the competition,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;In my mind I have already jumped farther, but you haven&rsquo;t seen it yet. I believe the big jump can happen this year.&rdquo;
Dos Santos was similarly dominant at the Brazilian Championships in Sao Paulo, clocking a championship record of 46.48 to take 0.13 off Karsten Warholm&rsquo;s previous world lead.
Only his 46.29 performance at the 2022 World Championships has been faster. Matheus Lima finished second in 47.97.
<h2>Vessat breaks long-standing French record</h2>
Samuel Vessat broke one of France&rsquo;s longest-standing national records on the final day of the championships in Albi. The 24-year-old clocked 44.24 to take 0.22 off the French 400m record set by Leslie Djhone in 2007. Last month, Vessat came within 0.01 of Djhone&rsquo;s mark when finishing fourth at the NCAA Championships.
Muhammad Kounta and Yann Spillmann also made significant improvements, finishing second and third in respective PBs of 44.55 and 44.92.
Thibaut Collet cleared 5.87m to win the pole vault before making three attempts at 6.01m. His brother Mathieu improved his PB to 5.82m to finish second.
Renelle Lamote prevailed in a close women&rsquo;s 800m final, clocking 1:58.70 to finish 0.12 ahead of Clara Liberman.
At the German Championships in Bochum-Wattenscheid, national record-holder Emil Agyekum produced the leading performance with a 47.65 victory in the 400m hurdles.
Owen Ansah completed a sprint double, following his 10.00 victory in the 100m by improving his 200m PB to 20.13. Jean Paul Bredau improved his 400m PB to 44.72, while world silver medallist Merlin Hummel won the hammer with 79.18m.
<h2>Schilder throws 20.58m in Hengelo</h2>
World champion Jessica Schilder defied cold and wet conditions to win the Dutch shot put title with 20.58m in Hengelo. Jorinde van Klinken finished second with 17.85m before going on to win the discus with 65.12m.
Nadine Visser won the 100m hurdles in 12.66 after clocking 12.65 in the heats.
At the Swiss Championships in Zurich, world 800m leader Audrey Werro completed an impressive weekend with a gun-to-tape victory in 1:57.21.
Having improved her 400m PB to 50.80 in the heats on Saturday, Werro led the 800m final throughout and won by more than a second from Valentina Rosamilia (1:58.74).
World heptathlon leader Annik K&auml;lin won the 100m hurdles in 12.67.
<h2>Inzoli and Sioli impress in Florence</h2>
Francesco Inzoli improved his long jump PB to 8.27m at the Italian Championships in Florence, adding the national title to the European U23 crown he won earlier this month.
Matteo Sioli equalled his PB of 2.30m to win the high jump, while Francesco Pernici clocked 1:44.89 to take the men&rsquo;s 800m title. Sara Fantini produced the leading throws performance on Sunday, winning the women&rsquo;s hammer with 73.33m.
Olympic silver medallist Bence Hal&aacute;sz saved his best for last at the Hungarian Championships in Budapest, throwing a season&rsquo;s best of 81.87m in the sixth round, finishing three metres ahead of &Aacute;rmin Szabados (78.56m).
At the Polish Championships in Bialystok, five-time world champion Pawel Fajdek won the hammer with 79.03m.

Miltiadis Tentoglou equalled the Greek long jump record while Alison dos Santos produced the second-fastest 400m hurdles performance of his career

Tentoglou and Dos Santos set world leads at national championships

Melissa Jefferson-Wooden came within 0.01 of her lifetime best to produce the standout performance on the final day of the US Championships in New York on Sunday (26).
The world champion powered away from the field in the women&rsquo;s 200m final, winning in a season&rsquo;s best of 21.69 (1.0m/s), just 0.01 shy of the time she ran to win the world title in Tokyo last year. Cambrea Sturgis finished a distant second at Icahn Stadium in 22.22.
There was a surprise in the men&rsquo;s 200m as Garrett Kaalund won the title in 20.04. Four-time world champion Noah Lyles, who had won the 100m in a world-leading 9.79 two days earlier, pulled up with cramp during the final, ending a winning streak over 200m that had stretched back to July 2025.
World indoor champion Cooper Lutkenhaus produced another commanding performance to win the men&rsquo;s 800m in 1:43.48. The 17-year-old remained patient during the opening lap before moving to the front with just over 200 metres remaining. He quickly opened a decisive gap and went on to win by more than a second.
World champion Cordell Tinch was pushed all the way in an exceptionally close men&rsquo;s 110m hurdles final. Tinch and Bradley Franklin both crossed the line in 13.00, a season&rsquo;s best for Tinch and a PB for Franklin. Just four thousandths of a second separated them, with Tinch awarded the victory.
The two 400m hurdles finals were more clear-cut. Olympic silver medallist Anna Cockrell won the women&rsquo;s event in a season&rsquo;s best of 52.94, while Christopher Robinson dominated the men&rsquo;s race in 47.61.
Alyssa Jones claimed the women&rsquo;s long jump title in dramatic circumstances. Jones led with 6.96m when Olympic and world champion Tara Davis-Woodhall appeared to have snatched victory with a final-round leap of 7.16m.
The effort was initially measured but was later ruled a foul, leaving Jones as the champion and ending Davis-Woodhall&rsquo;s unbeaten run, which had dated back to the 2023 World Championships.
World and Olympic discus champion Valarie Sion returned to winning ways with a 69.54m throw. A week after Cierra Jackson defeated her at the London Diamond League the previous weekend, Sion gained revenge in New York, with Jackson finishing second with 67.40m.
World indoor silver medallist Jordan Geist won his first US shot put title with 22.32m. Tripp Piperi was second with 21.91m.

Melissa Jefferson-Wooden came within 0.01 of her lifetime best to produce the standout performance on the final day of the US Championships

Jefferson-Wooden speeds to 21.69 at US Championships

After a restless night in the athletes&rsquo; village, during which he had got up to change his kit six or seven times, read the Bible and ultimately been tied to his bed by his Trinidad and Tobago teammates, Hasely Crawford breezed into the call room ahead of the men&rsquo;s 100m final at the 1976 Olympic Games, singing at the top of his voice.
&ldquo;Don Quarrie turned to me and said, &lsquo;You&rsquo;re crazy&rsquo;,&rdquo; Crawford recalled in Neil Duncanson&rsquo;s classic television documentary The Fastest Men on Earth. &ldquo;I said, &lsquo;You think I&rsquo;m crazy! See how crazy when I go out there with you!&rsquo;&rdquo;
Halfway down the home straight, Quarrie &ndash; running in lane four &ndash; caught sight of Valeriy Borzov in front of him. &ldquo;I thought, &lsquo;Oh, no! He&rsquo;s not going to win again?&rsquo;&rdquo; he later recalled.
In Munich four years previously, the Soviet sprinter had achieved the 100m-200m double, prompting the New York Times headline: &ldquo;The Fastest Human is a Commie.&rdquo;
Quarrie had been in Borzov&rsquo;s 200m semifinal in Munich but pulled a hamstring and was wheeled away on a stretcher. Four years before that, the smooth-striding, placid-natured Jamaican had been selected for the 4x100m relay as a 17-year-old, but was injured in training and missed the Mexico Olympic Games of 1968.
In the 100m final in Montreal, Quarrie shifted up a gear and caught Borzov. &ldquo;In going by him, I figured I got it won,&rdquo; he said, recalling the glint of golden promise that July day in 1976. &ldquo;But then I saw Hasely...&rdquo;
Running in lane one, Crawford had stolen a march on the field. Quarrie made one last effort, but as he lunged for the line he looked across to see Crawford raising his right arm in triumph. His Caribbean rival prevailed by 0.01: 10.06 to 10.07. Quarrie&rsquo;s Olympic curse had struck again.
It didn&rsquo;t last much longer.
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Jamaican sprinter Don Quarrie
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In the 200m final two days later, Quarrie was a class apart. Drawn in lane two, with Italy&rsquo;s Pietro Mennea inside him, he sailed around the curve in his customary graceful fashion, pulling a stride clear of his closest pursuer, Millard Hampton.
The 20-year-old US sprinter reduced the gap down the home straight, but Quarrie had the strength to resist his challenge, crossing the line in 20.23. Hampton was second in 20.26, with his 17-year-old US teammate Dwayne Evans third in 20.43 and Mennea fourth in 20.54.
Wearing the bright yellow Jamaican team tracksuit he has kindly donated to the Museum of World Athletics, together with a 1976 Olympic participant&rsquo;s pin badge, 25-year-old Donald O&rsquo;Reilly Quarrie &ndash; the pride of his native Kingston and beyond &ndash; finally got his hands on Olympic gold.
&ldquo;When I crossed the finish line I remember thinking Jamaica will be happy, especially after the disappointment of 1972 and the build-up of me being the favourite for Montreal,&rdquo; he recalled in an interview with Sports Jamaica. &ldquo;I was happy that I could win for the country.&rdquo;
And Jamaica was happy for him.
A bronze statue of Quarrie was erected at the entrance to the National Stadium. A school was named after him in eastern Kingston. And reggae artists Bongo Herman, and Joe Gibbs and The Guerrillas, both struck up tracks in his honour. &ldquo;Tribute to Donald Quarrie&rdquo; celebrates how the Kingston boy &ldquo;beat them all, up at Montreal.&rdquo;
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Don Quarrie donates his 1976 Olympic tracksuit to MOWA
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Not that anyone noticed at the time, but there was a fleeting moment when Quarrie missed a beat in that 200m final in Montreal: when Crawford, outside him in lane five, pulled up injured after 50 metres.
&ldquo;I had an excellent start,&rdquo; Quarrie recalled. &ldquo;I got out well. But I backed off a bit as I saw Hasely jump up. It was a reflex action, that pause. I think that&rsquo;s why I did not come off the curve better.&rdquo;
He came off well enough, though, before drawing on the strength that had long been a hallmark of his sprinting. That endurance, he suggested in an interview in World Athletics&rsquo; Legends of Athletics series, had been forged in the summer holiday after he took up sprinting in his second year at Camperdown High School.
&ldquo;I spent my whole summer getting up and running three or four miles, up in the hills or on the beach,&rdquo; Quarrie recalled. &ldquo;That made me so much stronger that once I got into the High School Championships, I more or less dominated it.&rdquo;
Quarrie&rsquo;s potent blend of speed and strength took him to two further Olympic medals: 200m bronze behind Mennea and Britain&rsquo;s Allan Wells in Moscow in 1980, and 4x100m relay silver in Los Angeles in 1984.
In a long career of sustained sprinting excellence, he racked up six Commonwealth Games gold medals: 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay as a 19-year-old in Edinburgh in 1970, 100m and 200m in Christchurch in 1974, and 100m in Edmonton in 1978.
The sprint and relay treble Quarrie achieved at the 1971 Pan American Games in Cali included a 19.8 200m, equalling Tommie Smith&rsquo;s hand-timed world record. His automatic time of 19.86 was just 0.03 outside Smith&rsquo;s winning time from the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City.
Having spent several years mixing it with the best of the US as a collegiate sprint star at the University of Nebraska and the University of Southern California, Quarrie also claimed a share of the 100m world record when he clocked 9.9 at Modesto in May 1976 &ndash; two months before striking Olympic gold in Montreal.
It was one of nine hand-timed 9.9 performances to be ratified as a world record, alongside those by US sprinters Jim Hines, Ronnie Ray Smith, Charlie Greene, Eddie Hart, Ray Robinson, Steve Williams and Harvey Glance, and Cuba&rsquo;s Silvio Leonard. Quarrie&rsquo;s was the last of them.
Simon Turnbull for World Athletics
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Looking back at Don Quarrie's triumph in the 200m at the 1976 Olympics

Quarrie’s golden turn in Montreal

World record-holder Mykolas Alekna produced the standout performance during a busy weekend of national championships, throwing 72.65m in Palanga on Saturday (25).
The 23-year-old improved his season&rsquo;s best to win the Lithuanian title with the best throw recorded outside Ramona for almost 20 years. The four-time global medallist returned to action last month, having had pectoral surgery earlier this year. He has won all three of his competitions this season, throwing beyond 70 metres in all of them.
Andy D&iacute;az provided another highlight at the Italian Championships in Florence, soaring out to a world-leading national record of 17.87m in the opening round of the triple jump. The two-time world indoor champion backed up that performance with 17.81m in the third round. Simone Biasutti made a significant breakthrough behind him, improving his PB to 17.32m.
Leonardo Fabbri won the shot put with 22.43m ahead of Zane Weir&rsquo;s 21.42m, while European U20 champion Erika Saraceni won the women&rsquo;s triple jump with a PB of 14.41m.
<h2>Perez sets world lead in Malaga</h2>
World and Olympic champion Maria Perez improved the national 10,000m race walk record to a world-leading 42:12.93 at the Spanish Championships in Malaga.
At the Norwegian Championships in Trondheim, Sondre Guttormsen achieved an outdoor best of 6.00m in the pole vault. He cleared the height on his second attempt to become the latest member of the outdoor six-metre club.
World record-holder Karsten Warholm won the 400m hurdles in 47.14, while Henriette J&aelig;ger broke her own Norwegian 200m record with 22.55 (1.6m/s).
At the French Championships in Albi, Hilary Kpatcha moved to sixth on the 2026 world long jump list with a meeting record of 6.98m, just four centimetres shy of the PB she set last year.
Isabelle Black, meanwhile, took almost half a second off her 400m PB. She clocked a meeting record of 50.47 in the heats &ndash; moving to third on the French all-time list &ndash; and returned the following day to win the final in 50.58.
Simon Batz was one of the leading performers at the German Championships in Bochum-Wattenscheid, improving his long jump PB to 8.29m.
Shanice Craft achieved a season&rsquo;s best of 66.18m to win the women&rsquo;s discus, while Owen Ansah retained his 100m title in 10.00 (0.7m/s), just 0.02 shy of the German record he set earlier this season.
The Dutch men&rsquo;s 100m title was also won in 10.00. Nsikak Ekpo took 0.16 off his PB in Hengelo, moving to second on the Dutch all-time list. Elsewhere in Hengelo, Ruben Rolvink threw 67.21m to win the men&rsquo;s discus.
<h2>Werro demonstrates speed in Zurich</h2>
Current 800m world leader Audrey Werro demonstrated her speed at the Swiss Championships in Zurich, improving her 400m PB by 0.23 to win her heat in 50.80. That performance moved the 22-year-old to within 0.28 of Lea Sprunger&rsquo;s Swiss record. Werro later breezed through the 800m heats in 2:06.11.
G&eacute;raldine Di Tizio-Frey also made a breakthrough in Zurich, improving to a European-leading 10.96 to win the women&rsquo;s 100m.
Olympic bronze medallist Natalia Bukowiecka produced one of the weekend&rsquo;s leading one-lap performances at the Polish Championships in Bialystok, running a season&rsquo;s best of 50.02 to win the 400m.
Klaudia Kazimierska set a meeting record of 1:58.97 to win the women&rsquo;s 800m, while Pia Skrzyszowska took the 100m hurdles title in 12.70 (-0.6m/s).
Tatjana Pinto broke the Portuguese 100m record in Lisbon, clocking 11.02 (1.8m/s) to take 0.07 off the previous national record. World indoor champion Gerson Bald&eacute; won the men's long jump with a wind-assisted 8.42m (3.8m/s).
World 400m hurdles leader Emma Zapletalov&aacute; was another national record-breaker, winning the Slovak 200m title in 22.67 into a slight headwind in Bansk&aacute; Bystrica.
World champion Daniel St&aring;hl threw a season&rsquo;s best of 69.85m to win the Swedish discus title in Uppsala. Vanessa Kamga took the women&rsquo;s title with a meeting record of 64.26m.

World record-holder Mykolas Alekna produced the standout performance during a busy weekend of national championships

Alekna and Díaz excel at national championships

Noah Lyles equalled his lifetime best with a world-leading 9.79 (0.8m/s) to win the men&rsquo;s 100m at the US Championships in New York on Friday (24).
The Olympic champion won by a comfortable margin from Ronnie Baker and Kenny Bednarek, who both clocked 9.88 with Baker finishing just 0.005 ahead to take second place.
In the semifinals just moments earlier, Lyles had sped to a marginally wind-assisted 9.76 which would have been a lifetime best had it not been for the wind (2.1m/s).
&ldquo;I think that was technically the best race I&rsquo;ve had so far,&rdquo; said Lyles, the four-time world 200m champion. &ldquo;In training last week I ran a hand-timed 9.6, so I knew a 9.7 was coming soon. Seeing it once is nice to see; seeing it twice is a confidence booster. Seeing it three weeks in a row is no inconsistency.&rdquo;
Sha&rsquo;Carri Richardson regained her national title in the 100m, equalling her season&rsquo;s best of 10.77 (0.9m/s). The 2023 world champion finished 0.13 ahead of Kayle White, who also equalled her season&rsquo;s best (10.90).
Garrett Scantling won a competitive decathlon from world bronze medallist Kyle Garland, 8526 to 8431. The duo exchanged leads throughout &ndash; Garland took the lead after the long jump, Scantling gained it after throwing 16.07m in the shot put and held on after the high jump. Garland&rsquo;s 48.50 clocking in the 400m gave him the lead at the end of day one.
Scantling responded with a 13.86 run in the 110m hurdles at the start of day two, taking the overall lead, but Garland regained it with a 49.60m discus throw. A 5.00m pole vault clearance and 62.49m javelin throw gave Scantling the advantage once more and he maintained it to the end with a 4:43.78 run in the 1500m.
Sandi Morris produced her best clearance since February 2020 to win the women&rsquo;s pole vault. The two-time world indoor champion triumphed with a first-time clearance at 4.90m.
Aaliyah Butler won the women&rsquo;s 400m by half a second, stopping the clock at 49.93. The men&rsquo;s one-lap final was much closer with just 0.02 separated the top two as Chris Bailey won from Khaleb McRae, 44.39 to 44.41.
Elsewhere in the sprints, Alia Armstrong sped to a season&rsquo;s best of 12.38 to win the women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles. Alaysha Johnson was second (12.42) and world long jump champion Tara Davis-Woodhall was third (12.57).
World indoor champion Chase Jackson notched up her 11th national title, winning the women&rsquo;s shot put by more than a metre with 20.55m.
Olympic silver medallist Annette Echikunwoke won the women&rsquo;s hammer. Her first-round throw of 75.47m stood up as the winning mark ahead of Rachel Richeson. 2019 world champion Deanna Price, one of the pre-event favourites, recorded three fouls.
World bronze medallist Curtis Thompson won the men&rsquo;s javelin with his final-round effort of 87.59m, a season&rsquo;s best.
The US Championships conclude on Sunday (26).
&bull; <a href="https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7243123" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Results</a>

Noah Lyles equalled his lifetime best with a world-leading 9.79 (0.8m/s) to win the men’s 100m at the US Championships in New York

Lyles runs world-leading 9.79 at US Championships

Gary Card announced himself in a big way at the Jamaican Championships in June, clocking a national U20 100m record of 9.93 to move to joint third on the world U20 all-time list.
It was the latest step on a decade-long sprint journey for the 19-year-old, who is now focused on the World Athletics U20 Championships Oregon 26 on 5-9 August.
Card showed his vast potential from an early age. He won the U10 boys&rsquo; sprint double for his school Ardenne Prep at the age of nine and was one of the standout performers at the 2017 National Prep School Championships. After transitioning to high school at Wolmer&rsquo;s Boys&rsquo;, also in Kingston, Jamaica, Card realised that making the track and field team was something earned, not given.
&ldquo;It was difficult at first,&rdquo; said Card. &ldquo;I was always used to winning from my prep school days, so coming to a new environment and seeing that I was at the bottom of the food chain forced me to work my way up and earn the respect of my coach and teammates.&rdquo;
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Card&rsquo;s steadfastness and mental fortitude ensured he wasted no time in proving his pedigree. In 2022, in front of a vociferous home crowd, he secured a silver medal at his first CARIFTA Games in the U17 boys&rsquo; 100m on home soil in Kingston. A year later, Card rebounded after a false start at the prestigious ISSA/Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Championships to claim 100m silver at the NACAC U18 Championships in San Jos&eacute;, Costa Rica.
Card is adept at running the 100m and 200m and does so interchangeably throughout each season. After winning the U20 boys&rsquo; 200m title at the 2024 CARIFTA Games in Grenada, the ambitious then 17-year-old decided to compete in the 100m against his peers and the 200m against the seniors during that year&rsquo;s Jamaican Championships.
&ldquo;I train with seniors every day, so why shouldn&rsquo;t I be competing against them?&rdquo; explained Card, who won the 100m in a PB of 10.07 and finished fifth in the 200m in a PB of 20.50 behind winner Bryan Levell, the future world bronze medallist.
&ldquo;It motivates me and pushes me to run faster, so it can only be to my advantage.&rdquo;
Later that year, at the World U20 Championships in Lima, Peru, the young Jamaican encountered challenges he had never faced before. The event took place during the Peruvian winter with temperatures ranging between 13-21&deg;C.
&ldquo;It was crazy in Peru. It was so cold that I had to wear three sets of clothing and make a lot of major adjustments, including doing extra strides during my warm-up,&rdquo; said Card, who finished sixth in the 100m and formed part of Jamaica&rsquo;s gold medal-winning 4x100m team.
&ldquo;The experience taught me a lot. It was the most nerve-wracking time of my life, and I felt the pressure. Now, I&rsquo;m more accustomed to those situations, and it will help in my future races, including the upcoming ones in Eugene (at the World U20 Championships in Oregon).&rdquo;
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The year 2025 represented unfinished business. Despite an extra year of eligibility, Card made his final appearance at the Boys and Girls Championships. It was also his final chance to secure an elusive individual 100m gold medal. Card looked impressive in his semifinal, cruising to a then PB of 10.06.
&ldquo;I went into the final with a lot of expectations,&rdquo; said Card, who ran flawlessly for the first 85 metres. &ldquo;I usually do not think too much during a race. However, when I started feeling pain towards the end, I knew in that moment that I did not want my final race to end on that note, and so I pushed through and held on for the gold. It was my toughest race. My physio was upset that I didn&rsquo;t stop, but I am glad I didn&rsquo;t.&rdquo;
According to Card, after careful reasoning with his influential father, going to college was a better option than completing two years in sixth form. A few months later, he enrolled in the University of Technology. &ldquo;I really felt it was time to go to college,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It was also more convenient with my training as the university is where I train, so it was easier to access the facilities.&rdquo;
The 2026 season so far has proven that the third time was the charm for Card when it came to racing against senior athletes.
&ldquo;I went into the race expecting to run sub-10, but in the moment after the race, while waiting for the scoreboard time, I was thinking it wasn&rsquo;t my best race,&rdquo; said Card, reflecting on his performance at last month&rsquo;s Jamaican Championships. &ldquo;The time (9.93) surprised me, and thinking about it now, I know that if I stay healthy and stay fit, I can go faster.&rdquo;
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Gary Card at the Jamaican Championships (&copy; Dwayne Richards of Yardie Sports)
After that he ran a 200m PB of 20.28 to finish fifth at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Budapest &ndash; a time that places him second on the Jamaican U20 all-time list behind only Usain Bolt.
When discussing his improvement, Card emphasised the importance of his training partner&nbsp;Kishane Thompson, the Olympic and world 100m silver medallist.
&ldquo;I always say iron sharpens iron,&rdquo; explained Card. &ldquo;Training with Kishane Thompson every day really motivates me; he&rsquo;s the reason I was able to run so fast this season.&rdquo;
Complacency has no room in Card&rsquo;s plans; he has set his sights on his next target.
&ldquo;Once I run a time, I give myself the night to be excited or emotional, but the next morning I&rsquo;m back to normal knowing that I can go faster,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Anything faster than 9.93 is what I need to achieve.&rdquo;
On his goals for the World U20 Championships, he added: &ldquo;First of all, I want to arrive in Eugene healthy and leave healthy. Secondly, of course, to win the events I&rsquo;m running, which are the 100m, 200m and 4x100m. That is the aim, and to run personal best times in both the 100m and 200m.&rdquo;
Card is from a close-knit family that supports him wholeheartedly, and he often returns the favour with his outstanding performances. The World U20 Championships provides Card with another opportunity to make his family, friends, coach, physiotherapist, manager and the MVP camp proud.
After all, Card lives by his school motto: &lsquo;age quod agis&rsquo; &ndash; whatever you do, do it to the best of your ability.
Noel Francis for World Athletics
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World Athletics U20 Championships

Gary Card announced himself in a big way at the Jamaican Championships in June, clocking a national U20 100m record of 9.93 to move to joint third on the world U20 all-time list.

Card holding the aces ahead of Oregon

Cordell Tinch had turned his back on athletics and gone into the working world, trying various jobs before being employed by US Cellular. He reflects on his alternative journey and going from tending to people's mobile phone needs to becoming a 110m hurdles world champion.
<h3>How did life for you working away from athletics begin?</h3>
It originally came down to a bunch of miscommunications within the athletic and academic department &ndash; about passing certain classes for my GPA to be eligible to go into the next season as an athlete. But the academic advisor left off a class and so I was not eligible. I&rsquo;ve never been much of a school person so being told I wasn&rsquo;t going to be allowed to practice and be with the team &ndash; that led to my decision to go home. To fix the other semester I was told it would be $2000 to cover the fees and tuitions. But that bill ended up being $6000 and that left me in a spot. So I went home and got working to pay if off. After a while I was thinking why pay $6000 to go back to school where I don&rsquo;t want to go. And so I thought I&rsquo;d be working in Green Bay for the rest of my life.
<h3>What was the career path then for you?</h3>
Initially when I first came home my dad got me to work with him with Georgia-Pacific paper mill company (making toilet paper). He said: 'The job sucks but the pay is fantastic.&rsquo; His advice was to do it for six months to a year, save money and have a good foundation for what I wanted. I did that and it was way too long shifts and way too frequent shifts &ndash; like 12 hours on and 12 off. That wasn&rsquo;t for me so I left that and helped one of my dad&rsquo;s friends with a moving company. Then I applied for Spectrum, went through the entire training and ended up losing the job as during training I had the choice to attend my best friend&rsquo;s graduation, which I always told him I&rsquo;d be there for. I lost that job but such is life, you live and learn. Then ended up at US Cellular and thought I was going to be there for a while.
<h3>So that was the job you settled on. What did it entail?</h3>
It was just my personality and how I am when it comes to things. I was surprisingly really good at it. The thought process was that, within the family, with technical problems people would ask me what to do. And that's what a phone store really is. The&nbsp; store I worked in had an older population with no clue how to use their technology &ndash; not just new phones and iPads but they couldn't find pictures of their grandkids to send. Helping them was something that I took pride in &ndash; how they could use technology to make their lives easier.
<h3>Was there an itch to get back to track and field then?</h3>
The thing is the itch never came from me. I was completely content with working my way through the US Cellular totem pole. But the boys I ended up going to school with, there were maybe six to eight of us all close, and one of our old group chats got some life again and they said go to Pitt (Pittsburgh State University where he had studied and trained) and give it another shot. I ignored it until I got a call from Jesse (Miller), the jumps coach at Pitt. I didn't feel it at all, and felt track and field was over for me. I listened to him and my friends, talked to my parents, and they said they were supporting me regardless of what I did. I told my mum: 'Well, worst case I spend a semester, don't like it, and come back home.'
<h3>It was a crazy trajectory from there wasn&rsquo;t it?</h3>
In the January, I moved out there. I competed in my first track meet in February, I set a PB in the long jump and hurdles instantly, and it carried on from that. By June, I was pro. Last time I competed was June of 2021 and this was January 2023. It&rsquo;s not like in that time I was training and getting ready for it, it&rsquo;s just on track magical things happened. I couldn&rsquo;t explain it. People would ask &lsquo;what did you do?&rsquo; If I&rsquo;m being completely honest, nothing. I worked Monday to Friday and every other Saturday, and then went partying with my friends. Ok, maybe I played basketball two or three times a month, but if someone had followed me in December 2022 and January 2023 they wouldn&rsquo;t have believed it was the same person. I was putting in personal bests where a month ago I was at bars having fun with my friends.
<h3>Were there any setbacks at all?</h3>
I got to Budapest in 2023 and the World Championships that year but I wasn&rsquo;t running well. I just ran out of gas because I had no base at all. We&rsquo;d ridden this high and it had gotten us to where we needed to be and then we worked out what we needed for the next season. My coach Kyle (Rutledge) had one other professional hurdler so he used some of the things that worked for him. Some things worked and some didn&rsquo;t. That&rsquo;s why 2024 was a bit of a decline plus three other dudes ran sub-13 at the US Trials. The feeling of pain of missing the team fuelled everything in me.
<h3>So what was the goal for 2025?</h3>
Our No.1 goal was to not miss that team for the Worlds. Sure, I was looking for a medal. I didn&rsquo;t win US Trials and people asked if I was upset but I&rsquo;d rather be world champ than US champ &ndash; that was the truth. Then my boys supporting knew nothing was going to stop me from winning that gold medal.
<h3>Then you became world champion. That old WhatsApp group must have blown up?</h3>
It definitely blew up. After I spoke to my mother, sisters and dad, it was a group call with the boys and it was a loud one! Tokyo was so special as so many people never lost sight of me in this fight when I didn&rsquo;t know what I could do.
<h3>Are there stories of old customers telling stories about the world champion that fixed their phone?</h3>
It&rsquo;s funny you say that as my sister and I went back to the store and there happened to be a lady in there that was quite regularly looking for help with this and that. She said I looked very familiar and her husband said I was the world champion. So it&rsquo;s definitely happened once and I&rsquo;m from a small town so it&rsquo;s probably happened more than once.
<h3>Your story reads like an American dream, doesn't it?</h3>
I wouldn&rsquo;t say American dream in and of itself. This was about a dream of mine becoming reality. When I came back, I wouldn't have done so if I didn&rsquo;t believe that I could be gold medallist or world champ or Olympic champion.
<h3>Do you get time to reflect on the remarkable journey you&rsquo;ve been on?</h3>
I definitely reflect a lot for the simple reason of the tough practice days where I say to myself: &lsquo;I don&rsquo;t want to do this, I know what I could be doing instead&rsquo;. That keeps me focused and grounded for my track and field journey. Having real-world perspective shapes how you look at the entire thing.
<h3>Do you think your career path can act as motivation to others?</h3>
I think people have seen the interviews of the phone salesman winning the world title, and they&rsquo;ve responded and reacted to that. People who might not watch track and field have said they heard the story and it motivated them to get back doing this or that. I do believe that my journey can be a catalyst for that but also to inspire people to lean on others around them. I&rsquo;m only as good as the people around me. I know that I wouldn&rsquo;t be where I am now if I didn&rsquo;t have that break and be working jobs I didn&rsquo;t want to work.

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Cordell Tinch is the world champion for the 110m hurdles but not so long ago he was working in a toilet paper factory and selling and fixing mobile phones. He talks about life on and off the track.

Side track with Cordell Tinch

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Fifty years ago, on 23 July 1976, athletics got under way at the Montreal Olympic Games. Over the days that followed, the Olympic Stadium became the stage for a rush of world records, breakthrough champions and enduring landmarks &ndash; among them Annegret Richter&rsquo;s 100m victory for West Germany and Alberto Juantorena&rsquo;s unprecedented 400m-800m double for Cuba.
Richter and Juantorena were among a host of track and field stars who struck Olympic gold and broke world records in Montreal, where the opening day of athletics marked the start of one of the sport&rsquo;s most memorable Olympic editions.
Richter&rsquo;s triumph was one of the standout disruptions of the competition. Of the 14 women&rsquo;s events, East Germany won nine gold medals, the Soviet Union two, and Poland and Bulgaria one each. Richter denied the Eastern Bloc a clean sweep of the women&rsquo;s sprint titles with the relentless rhythm that took her to 100m victory in the red and white vest of West Germany.
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Annegret Richter wins the 1976 Olympic 100m title (&copy; Imago)
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The 25-year-old had already begun, along with her OSC Dortmund clubmate and training partner Inge Helten, to loosen the stranglehold on women&rsquo;s sprinting enjoyed by Renate Stecher, the formidable East German who had stormed to 100m and 200m gold at the 1972 Olympic Games in world record times. Both Helten and Richter had clocked world records for 100m the month before the Games, Helten running 11.04 and Richter equalling Stecher&rsquo;s hand-timed mark of 10.8.
Despite not going full-out in her semi-final in Montreal, Richter improved Helten&rsquo;s electronic world record with 11.01. She might well have claimed a historic sub-11-second clocking in the final had it not been for a trio of false starts. As it was, she got out level with her principal rivals, then pulled clear from halfway to win by 0.05 from Stecher in 11.08, with Helten taking bronze in 11.17.
&ldquo;After crossing the finish line, I wasn&rsquo;t quite sure that I&rsquo;d won,&rdquo; Richter confessed. &ldquo;It wasn&rsquo;t until I saw the replay on the big screen that I saw I was clearly in the lead.&rdquo;
Four years earlier, Richter had helped deny Stecher an Olympic treble in Munich, her storming run on the final bend furnishing Heide Rosendahl, the long jump champion and pentathlon silver medallist, with just enough of a lead to hold off the East German on the anchor leg of the 4x100m, the West German quartet prevailing in a world record of 42.81.
In Montreal, Richter fell a tantalising 0.02 shy of emulating Stecher&rsquo;s 100m-200m double of 1972, clocking 22.41 in the longer sprint final behind the victorious East German B&auml;rbel Eckert. Stecher took bronze in 22.47 and then gold as part of an East German quartet that eclipsed Richter and West Germany in the 4x100m.
Juantorena&rsquo;s achievements were no less arresting. Rick Wohlhuter of the US, the world record-holder at 880 yards and 1000m, proclaimed: &ldquo;Juantorena will not be a factor because he is a 400m runner who will have trouble running three 800m races in as many days.&rdquo;
Instead, it was Wohlhuter who was found lacking when El Caballo showed his pedigree, Juantorena&rsquo;s prodigious 2.7m-long stride taking him clear to victory in a world record of 1:43.50, with the inspired Belgian Ivo Van Damme snatching silver in 1:43.86 ahead of the fading Wohlhuter, third in 1:44.12.
With his distinctive knee-length basketball socks, Juantorena &ndash; a national youth team basketball prodigy and future long-serving member of the World Athletics Council &ndash; powered onwards to complete an unprecedented double by winning the 400m final, his seventh race in six days, in 44.26.
<h2>Vir&eacute;n doubles again, then falls short of Z&aacute;topek&rsquo;s treble</h2>
Lasse Vir&eacute;n, a double winner over 5000m and 10,000m in Munich, emulated the Czech icon Emil Z&aacute;topek by holding on to the 10,000m crown, striking with 450m remaining to prevail in 27:40.38 ahead of Portugal&rsquo;s world cross country champion Carlos Lopes (27:45.17) and Britain&rsquo;s European 5000m champion Brendan Foster (27:54.92).
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Lasse Viren wins at the 1976 Olympics (&copy; Getty Images)
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Vir&eacute;n then succeeded where Z&aacute;topek and fellow Finnish phenomenon Paavo Nurmi failed by completing a back-to-back Olympic distance double, outsprinting his rivals to win the 5000m in 13:24.76. The next day he boldly sought to emulate Z&aacute;topek&rsquo;s epic 1952 golden treble, finishing fifth on his marathon debut &ndash; 3:16 behind Waldemar Cierpinski of East Germany, a surprise winner in an Olympic record of 2:09:55.
<h2>N&eacute;meth follows golden family tradition</h2>
Mikl&oacute;s N&eacute;meth finally emerged from the shadow of his famous father, Imre, the 1948 Olympic hammer champion and world record-breaker. The Hungarian javelin thrower, who later gave his name to a line of aluminium implements, sent his opening effort to a world record of 94.58m, stunning his rivals to such an extent that he finished 6.65m clear of Finn Hannu Siitonen, former holder of the global mark.
There were four other world records in individual events, plus one for the East German quartet in the women&rsquo;s 4x400m relay (3:19.23). The 18-year-old Christina Brehmer, who ran the anchor leg, was no match for the 30-year-old Irena Szewińska in the individual 400m. The Polish sprint great took 10 metres out of the teenager in the home straight, crossing the line in a world record of 49.28 to take her tally of Olympic medals to seven across five different events &ndash; 12 years after taking long jump silver and 4x100m relay gold on her Olympic debut in Tokyo.
Long regarded as a supreme time-trialist without a major crown, Sweden&rsquo;s Anders G&auml;rderud emerged triumphant from a dramatic 3000m steeplechase final in a world record of 8:08.02, sprinting clear from the final barrier after East Germany&rsquo;s Frank Baumgartl, who had drawn level, tripped and fell. Poland&rsquo;s Bronisław Malinowski snatched silver in 8:09.11, while Baumgartl picked himself up to claim a consolation bronze in 8:10.36.
In his first season as a 400m hurdler, the smooth-striding Edwin Moses struck gold in a world record of 47.64, finishing 1.05 clear of his US teammate Mike Shine. In the decathlon, Bruce Jenner &ndash; now known as Caitlyn Jenner &ndash; signed off a stellar combined events career in supreme fashion, reeling off seven PBs to notch a third world record with a tally of 8618.
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Edwin Moses (right) celebrates his 400m hurdles triumph at the 1976 Olympics (&copy; Getty Images)
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In other events, Soviet triple jumper Viktor Saneyev completed a hat-trick of Olympic triple jump victories with a leap of 17.29m; Guy Drut gritted his teeth to edge the 110m hurdles by 0.03 from Cuba&rsquo;s Alejandro Casa&ntilde;as in 13.30, thus becoming France&rsquo;s first track champion in a men&rsquo;s event for 56 years; New Zealand&rsquo;s John Walker claimed 1500m victory ahead of Belgium&rsquo;s Ivo Van Damme in 3:39.17, in the absence of Tanzanian world record-holder Filbert Bayi, a victim of the African boycott; Trinidad and Tobago&rsquo;s Hasely Crawford edged the 100m in 10.06, 0.02 ahead of Jamaica&rsquo;s Don Quarrie, who took the 200m in 20.23; and, unsettled by the Montreal rain, high jump favourite Dwight Stones of the US had to settle for bronze with 2.21m, nine centimetres shy of his world record height, as 19-year-old Jacek Wszoła of Poland claimed gold with an Olympic record of 2.25m.
Half a century after athletics began in Montreal, the 1976 Games remain defined not by one star or one record, but by a rush of performances that pushed the sport into new territory.
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Fifty years ago, on 23 July 1976, athletics got under way at the Montreal Olympic Games

Richter, Juantorena and the record rush of the Montreal 1976 Olympics

Men&rsquo;s short track 4x800m 7:10.29 USA (Clay Pender, Luke Houser, Luciano Fiore, Sean Dolan) Philadelphia, 6 February 2026
Men&rsquo;s short track 400m 44.52 Khaleb McRae (USA) Fayetteville, 13 February 2026
Men&rsquo;s pole vault 6.31m Mondo Duplantis (SWE) Uppsala, 12 March 2026
Men&rsquo;s heptathlon 6670 Simon Ehammer (SUI) Torun, 21 March 2026
Women&rsquo;s 60m hurdles 7.65 Devynne Charlton (BAH) Torun, 22 March 2026
Men&rsquo;s marathon 1:59:30 Sabastian Sawe (KEN) London, 26 April 2026
Women&rsquo;s marathon (women only) 2:15:41 Tigst Assefa (ETH) London, 26 April 2026
U20 women&rsquo;s javelin 71.74m Yan Ziyi (CHN) Xiamen, 23 May 2026
 Seven senior world records and one world U20 record set during the first five months of 2026 have been ratified by World Athletics.
Simon Ehammer and Devynne Charlton achieved their records at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Kujawy Pomorze 26 in March.
Ehammer regained his world indoor heptathlon title with a score of 6670, breaking the long-standing world record of 6645 set by USA&rsquo;s Ashton Eaton in Istanbul on 10 March 2012.
The Swiss athlete started strongly with 6.69 in the 60m and consolidated his lead with 8.31m in the long jump. He went on to clock a world heptathlon best of 7.52 in the 60m hurdles before completing the competition with a 2:41.04 PB run in the 1000m.
The following day, Charlton retained her world indoor 60m hurdles title in 7.65, equalling the world record she set when winning the first of her three world indoor titles in Glasgow on 3 March 2024.
Sabastian Sawe and Tigst Assefa produced world record performances in the men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s races when retaining their titles at the TCS London Marathon on 26 April.
Sawe became the first man to break two hours in a record-eligible marathon, clocking 1:59:30 to take 65 seconds off the world record of 2:00:35 set by the late Kelvin Kiptum in Chicago on 8 October 2023.
After being involved in a historic battle with Ethiopia&rsquo;s Yomif Kejelcha and Uganda&rsquo;s Jacob Kiplimo, Sawe made his decisive move with one mile remaining and pulled away to win in 1:59:30. Kejelcha also broke two hours with 1:59:41, while Kiplimo finished third in 2:00:28.
Assefa successfully defended her title in 2:15:41, taking nine seconds off the women-only world record of 2:15:50 that she set in London on 27 April 2025.
The Ethiopian gradually broke clear of Kenya&rsquo;s Hellen Obiri and Joyciline Jepkosgei during the closing stages. Obiri finished second in a PB of 2:15:53 and Jepkosgei was third in 2:15:55, marking the first time three women had broken 2:16 in the same race.
Mondo Duplantis improved his own world pole vault record by one centimetre at the Mondo Classic in Uppsala on 12 March.
Competing in the city where he was born and at the meeting that bears his name, the multiple world and Olympic champion cleared 6.31m. His previous record of 6.30m had been set when winning his third consecutive world title in Tokyo on 15 September 2025.
USA&rsquo;s Khaleb McRae broke the men&rsquo;s world short track 400m record at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville on 13 February.
McRae passed the halfway point in 21.24 before opening a significant advantage on the second lap and crossing the line in 44.52, taking 0.05 off the ratified world record of 44.57 set by his compatriot Kerron Clement on the same track on 12 March 2005.
Michael Norman and Christopher Morales Williams have both recorded faster times, but neither performance was eligible for ratification.
China&rsquo;s Yan Ziyi produced the second-best women&rsquo;s javelin performance in history at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Xiamen on 23 May.
The 18-year-old launched the javelin 71.74m in the opening round, adding almost six metres to the world U20 record of 65.89m that she set in Quzhou on 3 August 2025. Her throw also moved her behind only world record-holder Barbora Spotakova on the senior all-time list.
The latest batch of ratified marks also includes the world short track 4x800m record set by USA&rsquo;s Clay Pender (1:49.69), Luke Houser (1:47.47), Luciano Fiore (1:47.35) and Sean Dolan (1:45.79) at the Penn Classic in Philadelphia on 6 February.
The quartet clocked 7:10.29, improving the previous world record of 7:11.30 set by a US team in Boston on 25 February 2018.
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