The 2025 track and field season has the potential to be one of the greatest ever, and there are a few athletes who could play large roles in that.

Here are four big-time performances that we would love to see this year.

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1. Grant Holloway Breaks Aries Merritt's 110mH World Record 

Since coming one-hundredth of a second shy of matching the American and World record in the 110mH, Holloway has been chasing Merritt's longstanding mark of 12.80. 

The Olympic champion has come close several times, including his 12.81 PB at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials, and his 12.86 showing at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials last June. 

At this point, it seems that Holloway is destined to break the record, and it's just a matter of when. For what it's worth, Merritt was 27 years old when he broke the record in 2012, and Holloway will be 27 years old throughout the 2025 campaign.

2. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Runs First Sub-50 In 400mH

There is nothing that McLaughlin-Levrone needs to do to cement herself as the 'Greatest of All-Time'. 

She's a two-time Olympic champion and winner of three World titles as well, not to mention she has the current World Record. Just for kicks, she also has eight of the top 15 times in world history in the event and is the lone woman to dip below 50.6. 

With her PB of 50.37, it's hard not to envision her breaking the tape as the clock reads 49 seconds. Plus, the sooner McLaughlin-Levrone checks off this box, the sooner we are to potentially see her make the switch to the open 400m.

3.1500m Contingent Challenges Hicham El Guerrouj's WR

There's no doubt that the current landscape of men's mid-distance running is at a level it hasn't touched since the late 1990s and early 2000s. 

Heading into the 2025 season, there are more contenders to challenge Hicham El Guerroj's all-time mark of 3:26.00, and it's honestly too hard to predict who has the best odds. 

On one hand, Norwegian star and two-time 5k Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen is No. 3 in world history with a 3:26.73 PB, and on the other, Great Britain's Josh Kerr clocked 3:27.79 when he won Silver in Paris this past August. 

Not to mention the American duo of Cole Hocker and Yared Nuguse, who won Olympic Gold and Bronze in 3:27.65 and 3:27.80, the No. 7 and No. 9 times in the history of the event. At this point, it's just a matter of time before we see the first 3:25 performance in world history, and we may witness it as early as this summer.

4. Yaroslava Mahuchikh Becomes First Woman To Clear 7'0"

For 37 years, Bulgaria's Stefka Kostadinova sat atop the all-time women's high jump leaderboard with a clearance of 2.09m (6-10.25). Finally, just weeks before the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, the Ukrainian superstar soared above the bar at the Paris Diamond League Meeting. 

Makuchikh became the first woman to ever clear 2.10m (6-10.75) in world history and followed that up with her first Olympic title. 

The 23-year-old is in a world of her own for the time being, especially considering no other woman has cleared higher than 2.06m (6-9) since 2017.

Mahuchikh still has over a foot to go before nearing 2.13m (7-0), but if it's not this year, Mahuchikh may still accomplish the feat in the years to come.

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