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World records set in recent months by Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Mondo Duplantis and Jessica Hull have now been ratified by World Athletics.

Five world U-20 records – set by Biniam Mehary, Mattia Furlani, JaMeesia Ford, Yan Ziyi and Niels Laros – have also been ratified.

Olympic champions Ingebrigtsen and Duplantis broke world records within moments of each other at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Silesia.

Ingebrigtsen shattered the mark for 3000m with 7:17.55, taking more than three seconds off the previous world record of 7:20.67 that Kenya’s Daniel Komen set in Rieti on September 1, 1996.

About an hour later, Duplantis took to the pole vault runway and cleared 6.26m, adding a centimetre to the world record he set when winning the Olympic title in Paris on August 5.

Prior to the Olympic Games, Hull entered the record books with her run over 2000m at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco. The Australian distance runner won by more than six seconds in 5:19.70, breaking the world record of 5:21.56 set by Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba on September 14, 2021.

Back in February, Ethiopian distance runner Biniam Mehary made a name for himself by breaking the world U-20 indoor 1500m record in Torun. His 3:34.83 clocking was an improvement on the previous mark of 3:36.02 set by Ingebrigtsen in Dusseldorf on February 20, 2019.

Another world U-20 indoor record fell a few weeks later when US sprinter JaMeesia Ford sped to a 22.34 clocking over 200m in Boston, shaving 0.06 off the mark set by USA’s Bianca Knight in Fayetteville on March 14, 2008. Ford had twice clocked 22.36 earlier in the season, but neither performance could be ratified as a world U-20 indoor record.

The world U-20 records continued to fall outdoors, starting in April when China’s Yan Ziyi sent her javelin flying out to 64.28m in Hangzhou. Not only did the 16-year-old break the previous world U-20 record of 63.86m set by Cuba’s Yulenmis Aguilar in Edmonton on August 2, 2015, she also set a world U18 best. At the end of the season, Yan went on to improve her best to 64.41m, which is pending ratification.