Karsten Warholm’s WR 45.94 led the way in Tokyo and Rai Benjamin & Alison dos Santos moved to Nos. 2 & 3 on the all-time list. What will their Paris rematch bring? (KIRBY LEE/IMAGE OF SPORT)
WE HAVE LISTED our Top 10 in each event. Any Team USA members who don’t make the Top 10 are listed in alphabetical order at the end. The right-hand column is the athlete’s placing in last year’s T&FN World Rankings (nr = not ranked). For the relays, the numbers indicate place, if any, in last year’s WC.
The two mixed-sex relays are listed in both the men’s and women’s compilations, but personnel remain very much in question.
All charts are based on the best information available as of July 28 (meaning that final entry lists were known, but not actual start lists), so the presence of an athlete’s name doesn’t guarantee they’ll contest the event.
Our picks will NOT be updated as the meet progresses.
100 METERS
1.
Noah Lyles
(USA)
1
2.
Kishane Thompson
(Jamaica)
10
3.
Oblique Seville
(Jamaica)
3
4.
Lamont Marcell Jacobs
(Italy)
nr
5.
Akani Simbine
(South Africa)
8
6.
Ferdinand Omanyala
(Kenya)
4
7
Letsile Tebogo
(Botswana)
6
8.
Kenny Bednarek
(USA)
nr
9.
Fred Kerley
(USA)
7
10.
Louie Hinchliffe
(Great Britain)
nr
200 METERS
1.
Noah Lyles
(USA)
1
2.
Kenny Bednarek
(USA)
5
3.
Erriyon Knighton
(USA)
2
4.
Letsile Tebogo
(Botswana)
3
5.
Andre De Grasse
(Canada)
6
6.
Zharnel Hughes
(Great Britain)
4
7.
Joe Fahnbulleh
(Liberia)
nr
8.
Alexander Ogando
(Dominican Republic)
8
9.
Tarsis Orogot
(Uganda)
nr
10.
Wanya McCoy
(Bahamas)
nr
400 METERS
1.
Quincy Hall
(USA)
4
2
Matthew Hudson-Smith
(Great Britain)
6
3.
Steven Gardiner
(Bahamas)
8
4.
Alexander Doom
(Belgium)
nr
5.
Michael Norman
(USA)
nr
6.
Charlie Dobson
(Great Britain)
nr
7.
Chris Bailey
(USA)
nr
8.
Christopher Morales Williams
(Canada)
nr
9.
Bayapo Ndori
(Botswana)
nr
10.
Lythe Pillay
(South Africa)
nr
800 METERS
1.
Djamel Sedjati
(Algeria)
4
2.
Emmanuel Wanyonyi
(Kenya)
1
3.
Mohamed Attaoui
(Spain)
nr
4.
Marco Arop
(Canada)
2
5.
Bryce Hoppel
(USA)
9
6.
Wyclife Kinyamal
(Kenya)
5
7.
Gabriel Tual
(France)
nr
8.
Ben Pattison
(Great Britain)
6
9.
Elliott Crestan
(Belgium)
nr
10.
Hobbs Kessler
(USA)
nr
(other American: Brandon Miller)
1500 METERS
1.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen
(Norway)
1
2.
Josh Kerr
(Great Britain)
3
3.
Yared Nuguse
(USA)
2
4.
Timothy Cheruiyot
(Kenya)
nr
5.
Narve Gilje Nordås
(Norway)
4
6.
Brian Komen
(Kenya)
nr
7.
Raynold Kipkorir
(Kenya)
7
8.
Neil Gourley
(Great Britain)
9
9.
Cole Hocker
(USA)
10
10.
Olli Hoare
(Australia)
nr
(other American: Hobbs Kessler)
Ingebrigtsen, Kerr, Nuguse — someone else? Who do you like for the 1500? (VICTOR SAILER/PHOTO RUN)
STEEPLE
1.
Soufiane El Bakkali
(Morocco)
1
2.
Lamecha Girma
(Ethiopia)
2
3.
Samuel Firewu
(Ethiopia)
5
4.
Getnet Wale
(Ethiopia)
8
5.
Amos Serem
(Kenya)
nr
6.
Abraham Kibiwot
(Kenya)
4
7.
Mohamed Amine Jihnaoui
(Tunisia)
nr
8.
Geordie Beamish
(New Zealand)
7
9.
Simon Koech
(Kenya)
3
10.
Ryuji Miura
(Japan)
9
(the Americans: James Corrigan, Kenneth Rooks, Matthew Wilkinson)
5000 METERS
1.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen
(Norway)
4
2.
Hagos Gebrhiwet
(Ethiopia)
6
3.
Jacob Kiplimo
(Uganda)
10
4.
Joshua Cheptegei
(Uganda)
8
5.
Selemon Barega
(Ethiopia)
nr
6.
Jacob Krop
(Kenya)
3
7.
Luis Grijalva
(Guatemala)
5
8.
Grant Fisher
(USA)
nr
9.
Dominic Lobalu
(Switzerland)
nr
10.
Biniam Mehary
(Ethiopia)
nr
(the other Americans: Graham Blanks, Abdihamid Nur)
10,000 METERS
1.
Yomif Kejelcha
(Ethiopia)
nr
2.
Berihu Aregawi
(Ethiopia)
4
3.
Jacob Kiplimo
(Uganda)
nr
4.
Selemon Barega
(Ethiopia)
3
5.
Grant Fisher
(USA)
nr
6.
Joshua Cheptegei
(Uganda)
1
7.
Benard Kibet
(Kenya)
5
8.
Moh Ahmed
(Canada)
9
9.
Nicholas Kipkorir
(Kenya)
6
10.
Daniel Mateiko
(Kenya)
nr
(other Americans: Woody Kincaid, Nico Young)
110 HURDLES
1.
Grant Holloway
(USA)
1
2.
Daniel Roberts
(USA)
3
3.
Hansle Parchment
(Jamaica)
2
4.
Lorenzo Ndele Simonelli
(Italy)
nr
5.
Freddie Crittenden
(USA)
nr
6.
Shunsuke Izumiya
(Japan)
4
7.
Sasha Zhoya
(France)
nr
8.
Rasheed Broadbell
(Jamaica)
5
9.
Enrique Llopis
(Spain)
nr
10.
Rachid Muratake
(Japan)
nr
400 HURDLES
1.
Rai Benjamin
(USA)
2
2.
Karsten Warholm
(Norway)
1
3
Alison dos Santos
(Brazil)
4
4
Roshawn Clarke
(Jamaica)
7
5
CJ Allen
(USA)
5
6
Alessandro Sibilio
(Italy)
nr
7
Malik James-King
(Jamaica)
nr
8
Trevor Bassitt
(USA)
8
9
Abderrahmane Samba
(Qatar)
nr
10
Rasmus Mägi
(Estonia)
9
MARATHON
1.
Benson Kipruto
(Kenya)
4
2.
Alexander Munyao
(Kenya)
3
3.
Bashir Abdi
(Belgium)
5
4.
Tamirat Tola
(Ethiopia)
10
5.
Victor Kiplangat
(Uganda)
7
6.
Kenenisa Bekele
(Ethiopia)
nr
7.
Eliud Kipchoge
(Kenya)
6
8.
Gabriel Gea
(Tanzania)
8
9.
Deresa Geleta
(Ethiopia)
nr
10.
Cam Levins
(Canada)
nr
(U.S. entrants: Leonard Korir, Conner Mantz, Clayton Young)
With WR-setter Mykolas Alekna, Kristjan Čeh and Matt Denny all hot this summer, discus defender/world champ Daniel Ståhl faces a herculean challenge. (VICTOR SAILER)
SHOT
1.
Ryan Crouser
(USA)
1
2.
Leonardo Fabbri
(Italy)
4
3.
Joe Kovacs
(USA)
3
4.
Payton Otterdahl
(USA)
5
5.
Tom Walsh
(New Zealand)
2
6.
Jacko Gill
(New Zealand)
6
7.
Chuk Enekwechi
(Nigeria)
nr
8.
Filip Mihaljević
(Croatia)
7
9.
Zane Weir
(Italy)
8
10.
Rajindra Campbell
(Jamaica)
nr
DISCUS
1.
Mykolas Alekna
(Lithuania)
3
2.
Kristjan Čeh
(Slovenia)
2
3.
Matt Denny
(Australia)
4
4.
Daniel Ståhl
(Sweden)
1
5.
Lukas Weißhaidinger
(Austria)
7
6.
Traves Smikle
(Jamaica)
8
7.
Alex Rose
(Samoa)
9
8.
Roje Stona
(Jamaica)
nr
9.
Clemens Prüfer
(Germany)
nr
10.
Henrik Janssen
(Germany)
10
(the Americans: Joe Brown, Andrew Evans, Sam Mattis)
