Cheptegei, Duplantis and Kosgei nominated for Laureus World Sports Awards
World record-holders Joshua Cheptegei, Mondo Duplantis and Brigid Kosgei are among the nominees for the Laureus World Sports Awards.
For The Record: Mondo Duplantis
How Mondo Duplantis became one of the world's greatest pole vaulters
Athlete of the year and master of the vault, but still room for improvement for Duplantis
The heights continue to soar, yet the process stays the same. When Mondo Duplantis stands at the end of a pole vault runway, staring up at a bar that seems pitched in the sky, halfway to heaven, he boils a task of ultimate sophistication down to sheer simplicity.
Focus on finalists: Peres Jepchirchir and Mondo Duplantis
In the countdown to the World Athletics Awards 2020, which will be held as a virtual event on 5 December, we’ll be taking a closer look at the five men and five women who were earlier this week confirmed as the finalists for the Athlete of the Year awards.
Looking back at the 2020 Wanda Diamond League
At the start of the 2020 outdoor season, in the aftermath of the postponement of the Olympic Games and other major championships, it was deemed almost impossible for international track and field meetings to go ahead during a global pandemic.
Loaded 3000m line-up for Doha as 2020 Wanda Diamond League set to go out on a high
It may have been a far-from-normal season, but the Wanda Diamond League will end on a high in Doha on Friday (25) with what is quite possibly the deepest line-up seen in any discipline this year.
Still ‘up in the clouds’, Duplantis turns his attention to next major targets
The world records are not enough for Mondo Duplantis.
Duplantis scales 6.15m in Rome, world's highest ever outdoor vault
In the country where ‘Mondo’ means ‘world’, Swedish wunderkind Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis confirmed his status as the world’s greatest pole vaulter, jumping higher than anyone ever has in an outdoor stadium, 6.15m, at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Rome on Thursday (17).
High-flying stars Warholm and Duplantis form a Scandi support group
Karsten Warholm and Mondo Duplantis have created their own support group to deal with the growing expectations around them as they move ever closer to world records in their respective events.
Duplantis and Warholm command the spotlight in Rome
The world record chase resumes again for Mondo Duplantis and Karsten Warholm at the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea Wanda Diamond League meeting in Rome on Thursday (17).
Vetter joins Warholm, Duplantis and Crouser in race to break the next world record
Another week, another world record was seriously threatened.
Hassan and Farah break one-hour world records in Brussels
Britain's Mo Farah and Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands set respective men’s and women’s world one-hour records at the Wanda Diamond League exhibition meeting at the King Baudouin Stadium tonight.