Noah Lyles of the U.S. and Faith Kipyegon of Kenya were named the male and female Track Athletes of the Year as World Athletics handed out its end of the year honors tonight in Monaco.

With one meet to go before the Diamond League finale, the sport is officially on world record watch in multiple events as the premier tour stops in Brussels for the Allianz Memorial van Damme meeting on Friday.

The World Athletics World Indoor Tour makes its next stop in Lievin, France on Tuesday with strong fields featuring Olympic champions and world record holders.  

For a year in which both the world indoor championships and the Olympic Games were postponed, 2020 has seen its fair share of world records. (Of course, one could argue that those events being postponed aided in world record achievement, particularly in the cases of Joshua Cheptegei and Letesenbet Gidey.) A season with so much history has begged a question: which among these world records is the best?

Mondo Duplantis has now set the indoor and outdoor pole vault world records in 2020 after the 20-year-old cleared 6.15m in his second attempt on Thursday in Rome.

Wednesday’s Lausanne Diamond League was a pole vault-only competition in the Swiss streets, but a stellar battle between superstars Mondo Duplantis and Sam Kendricks made up for the scarcity of disciplines.

One noted track and field writer called last Sunday’s Ultimate Garden Clash, “fun, quirky and controversial.” That’s high praise, especially considering our current predicament with live sports. Even though the competition ended in a tie, we got to witness the aerobic capacity of Renaud Lavillenie and the extent of Mondo Duplantis’ desire to win at everything he attempts—even virtual pole vault challenges with obscure rules.  

Mondo Duplantis is ushering in a new era of the pole vault, one centimeter at a time. Just a week removed from his world record clearance of 6.17m, the 20-year-old vaulted 6.18m at the Muller Indoor Grand Prix in Glasgow.

Below are FloTrack’s top five NCAA male performers of 2019:

By: Cory Mull, MileSplit

By Becca Peter of @PoleVaultPower The 2018 UCS/Spirit National Pole Vault Summit in Reno, Nevada, featured some of the best elite performances in the event’s 28-year history, including world-leading marks by Mondo Duplantis and Sandi Morris.

We're nine days away from New Year's Day 2018, so it's time to bombard you — our loyal visitors — with best-of and end-of-year content.