Official! Several world records ratified

The World Athletics Federation has officially ratified the world records set by Armand Duplantis, Agnes Ngetich and Emmanuel Wanioni, as well as two world records in the indoor event for juniors under 20, set by Cameron Myers, reports sportal.bg.

Duplantis' record of 6.28 meters in the pole vault was achieved at the Diamond League in Stockholm on June 15. It was the 12th world record in the pole vault for the two-time Olympic and world champion from Sweden and the first achieved on home soil.

He cleared 6.28m on his first attempt, adding one centimetre to the previous world record of 6.27m, which he set indoors in Clermont-Ferrand on 28 February.

Kenyan Ngetich set her own record in the women's 10km at the adizero Road to Records event in Herzogenaurach, Germany, on 26 April.
With a time of 29:27, Ngetich became the first athlete to break 30 minutes in the women's 10km. The 24-year-old, who already held the world record for the 10km medley (28:46), crossed the halfway mark in 14:37 and won by more than a minute, breaking the record set by the late Agnes Jebet Tirop. The previous best of 30:01 was set by Tirop, Ngetich's compatriot, in Herzogenaurach on September 12, 2021.
Kenyan Wanioni also set his own world record in the road mile in Herzogenaurach, but a year earlier. The reigning Olympic 800m champion ran the distance in 3:54.6 at the adizero Road to Records event on 27 April 2024.

Deciding to make his mile debut rather than compete in his signature event, Wanionius bettered the previous world record of 3:56.13 set by American Hobbs Kessler at the World Road Running Championships in Riga on 1 October 2023.

The two U20 indoor world records were achieved by Australian Myers at the Millrose Games in New York, USA, on 8 February.
Finishing third in the Wanamaker Mile, won by American Jared Nuguse in an indoor world record of 3:46.63, the then 18-year-old Myers set a world indoor mile record for U20s 20 years old with a time of 3:47.48, having run the 1500m with a world indoor record for under-20s of 3:32.67. The previous 1500m record was set by Ethiopian Binyamin Mehari in Torun on February 6, 2024, and before that the mile record was held by Myers himself, who ran the distance in 3:53.12 in New York on January 25.